WORLD'S FIRST PORT.
NEW YORK. TONNAGE IN 1308, 12,154,780. : By Telegraph—Press Association— Oopyrlcht. New York, February 1. American Statistics , show,' that New York is tho leading seaport in'the. world.' Ih 1908 ,-:the, registered -tonnage entering the .port.', amounted ,to 12,151,780—an in-creaseof,6s:2-s'por cent, over 1898. LONDON'S .TONNAGE WAS 11,160,367 IN 1907. BRITISH PORTS COMPARED. : It is difficult to pet tho statistics of. English - ports for ,1908; In . 1907 the tonnage that entered-London . was .11,100,367, or nearly 'one imillioh' tons 1 less .(to bo exact, 994,413) than tho tonnage claimed for -New- -York;in 1908, as set out -in the above ■ cablegram. :' In '. '1907 ; the ; tonnage at Liverpool • was 8,107,419. The relative importance of the ports of the United Kingdom is sliov-rn by the apponded table, which gives tho tonnage or British and foreign 'vessels 'in ' the foreign trades which entered them in the year 1907: — England and Wales. -Bristol - i • • , 867,055 / Cardiif 5,734,755 Dover .... .•. ~ 1,(|3R,459 . Grimsby — - 1,322,232 ; Hull ..... ........ 3,1598,317 Liverpool :■' ........ :8,167,419 Manchester 1,363,859 , , London 11,160,367 > Middlesbrough . 1,616,143 , ■-Newport ' 1,604,912 :. Southampton ' , : 3,777,301 iSunderland ~™_. 1,335,455 Swansea 992,489 Port Talbot 502,738 Tyne Ports 5,205,621 Scotland. -Glasgow .............. 1,918,923';• Grangemouth : 830,497 . ' Kirkcaldy i-~; -30,506 - - •: ■ ' Burnt Island w™-;-...,' N . 621,207 =.' Methil 924,519 - Leith 1,335,599 , 'Ireland. Belfast 471,170 Dublin 251,651
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 732, 3 February 1910, Page 5
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201WORLD'S FIRST PORT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 732, 3 February 1910, Page 5
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