British Coal Trade.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 4, 1 February 1907, Page 143

British Coal Trade.

The present year has been an astonishingly successful one for the British coal trade During the first nine months total exports of coal, coke, and patent fuel amounted to 42,872,853 tons, as against 36,679,755 tons during the same period in 1905, an increase of over 6,000 000 tons This is an extremely satisfactory result, and it points to 1906 being a lecord year for the export trade As regards the value here again the figures are distinctly cheering as will be seen from the following table extracted from the Board of Trade returns —

As regards bunker coal shipments, the total for 1906 is 13,845,545 tons an increase of 774 178 tons over last year's figure