CANADIAN PORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 March 1939, Page 6

CANADIAN PORTS

FLOW OF STEAMSHIP TRAFFIC. TRADE WITH UNITED KINGDOM. MONTREAL. Shipping between Canada and the United Kingdom constituted approximately one-quarter of the steamship traffic in and out of Canadian ports in 1938, although coastwise traffic with the United States and Newfoundland engaged the largest actual number of vessels. Steamship arrivals at Canadian ports in 1938 numbered 26,407 vessels of 31,421,775 registered tonnage. Steamship departures for sea numbered 27,359 vessels of 31,402,043 registered tons.

Of the inward bound shipping, 1,642 vessels of 7,175,896 tons were from the United Kingdom. Of this total 575 vessels passed through the Panama canal en route for British Columbian ports, and eight travelled via the northern route to Canada’s northernmost port of Churchill in the Hudson Bay. Outward bound shipping destined for ports of the United Kingdom numbered 2,430 vessels of 8,882,980 registered tonnage. Of this number 943 vessels sailed from Pacific Coast ports and the eight vessels returned from Port Churchill loaded with wheat. Other inward bound shipping arriving- in Canadian ports in 1938 included 655 from continental Europe, 393 from Japan, 346 from the British West Indies, 345 from Latin American ports, 100 from Australasian ports, 107 from India, Ceylon and the Straits Settlements, 115 from South Africa as well as East and West Africa. Coastal inward bound shipping included 15,612 from the United States, 1,203 from Newfoundland and 5,523 from the sea fisheries. i