564
FRANCE
French . Foreign .
Total
Marseille Le Havre Cherbourg Bordeaux Boulogne Dunkirk. Rouen . Calais . Nantes . St. Nazaire La Rochelle Dieppe . Cette . Caen
Entered (1919) Vessels Tonnage
6,579 27,059
33,638
2,8H
2,193
4S1
1,110
2,388
1,725
5,138
2,20(1
668
556
599
1,150
1,499
704
6,022,000 16,812,000
2,S34,000
4,496,000
3,138,000
492,000
1,631,000
1,249,000
1,422,<'00
3,354,000
468,000
691,000
845,000
843,000
3S5,000
566,000
338,000
Cleared (1919)
Vessels
3,637 8,737
12,374
2.09S
1,064 218 882
1,251 290 266 573 216 45 175 388
1,188 73
Tonnage
3,612,000 5,777,000
9,389,000
2,426,000
1,485,000
247,000
1,003,000
978,000
240,000
142,000
£04,000
175,000
89,000
155.000
128,000
346,000
17,000
Internal Communications. I. Rivers, Railways, etc.
On January 1, 1912, there were in France 23,899 miles of national roads, in addition to the vicinal roads.
Navigable rivers (1911), 5,450 miles ; actually navigated, 3,822 miles ; canals, 3,104 miles ; actually navigated, 3,052 miles ; rivers navigable for rafts, 1,908 miles. In 1913 there were 3,620 miles of canals; in 1919 a programme was adopted for the extension and improvement of the canal system.
By a law of 1842, the construction of railways was left mainly to companies, superintended, and if necessary assisted, by the State ; which now constructs lines which the companies work, and works on its own account one important State system. There are lines of local interest subventioned by the State or by the departments. The concessions granted to the six great companies expire at various dates from 1950 to 1960 ; the periods of State guarantee of four of them terminated at the end of 1914, and will do so in the case of the others in 1934 and 1935.
The length of line open for traffic in 1919 was 25,167 miles of lines, made up as follows : —
-
Miles
-
Miles
State
Nord (Northern)
Est (Eastern) ....
Paris-to-Orleans
Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean
Midi (Southern)
5,586-8 2,146-4 8jlM-7
4,7so I 6,0642
• I.V9
Paris Belt Line Grand Belt Line
Total ....
Secondary companies (mostly departmental railways)
19-9
77-7
97-6
839 -.'.
10-8
Nnii concessionary roads
Grand Total. . . 1
19-9
Total ....
25,1«7S
