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NETHERLANDS
The following table gives the number and tonnage (in English measurement) of vessels which entered and cleared the ports of the Netherlands : —
Entered.
With Cargoes
]
[a Ballast
Total
Year
1893
No.
Tonnage
No.
Tonnage
No.
9,178
Tonnage
8,519
6,014,460
659
252,756
6 267,216
1894
9,048
6,688,830
705
237,180
9,753
6,925,656
1895
8,915
6,541,566
685
243,906
9,600
6,785,472
1896
10,222
7,610,292
831
294,882
11,053
7,905,174
1897
10,599
8,278,998
636
250,278
11,235
8.529,276
Cleared.
1893
6,392
3,676,290
2,678
2,478,354
9,070
6,154,644
1894
6,663
3,795,588
3,078
3,0 ;'k066
9,741
6,850,254
1895
6,569
3,777,180
2,973
2,993.424
9,542
6,770,604
1896
7,174
4,195,254
3,592
3,540.000
10,766
7,735,254
1897
7,084
4,220,034
4,014
4,179,324
11,098
8,399,358
Of the total number in 1897, 2,995 Dutch vessels entered with a tonnage of 2,108,070, and 8,240 foreign vessels with a tonnage of 6,421,206; 3,106 Dutch vessels cleared, with a tonnage of 2,114,088, and 7,992 foreign vessels with a tonnage of 6,285,624.
The vessels with cargoes which entered at the chief ports were as follows : —
Entered
1S96
1S97
1
Port
Number
Tons.
4,522,604
1,209,972
675,432
per cent.
Ninnher
5,604
1,794
792
Tons.
pr.cnt
61-2
161
8-1
Rotterdam Amsterdam Flushing
5,111
1,682
799
59-4 15-9
8-9
5,071,050
1,335,996
668,706
Cle
ared
Rotterdam Amsterdam Flushing .
3,836
1,279
760
2,096,388 849,246 658,440
50 '0 20-2 15-7
3,065
1,300
771
1,826,114 877,920 662,334
45-6 20-0 15-7 i
The number of Dutch vessels engaged in the carrying trade between foreign ports was, in 1896, 2,696, with a tonnage of 1,782,390. The coasting trade is of no importance.
Internal Communications.
I. Canals and Kail ways. The length of navigable water (canals excluded) is about 3,000 miles. The total extent of the canals was in 1879, 1,907 miles ;of roads, 2, 943 miles. In 1896 the total length of the principal tramway lines was 749 miles ;
