T able 115. Vessels entered from and cleared for Foreign Countries.
Annually
Swedish vessels Foreign vessels Tonnage in thousands
Number To nnage Number Tonnage
Steam ships Sailing vessels j
Swedish Foreign Swedish Foreign !
1876-80 . . . 19 565 2 271437 23 826 4 156 896 1056 1545 1215 2 612
1881—85 . . . 25953 3 036 018 27 840 5 395017 1726 3 027 1310 2 368
1886—90 . . . 25149 3 454 269 30 503 6 414 547 2 206 4 616 1248 1799
1891—95 . . . 28 623 4 011511 31103 7 890 446 2 678 6 316 1334 1574
1896—00 . . . 34 860 5 805 671 33 459 9 770 045 4 356 8 471 1449 1299
1901—05 . . . 39 443 8177 307 32 551 9 608 03 i 6 742 8 439 1435 1169 I
1906—10 . . . 36 747 10 183 876 33 663 10090 782 8 965 9179 1219 912
1911................ 35 825 11633 878 36 734 11 756 769 M0 605 10 843 1029 913
1912................ 37 475 12 370 227 39 166 13141663 11 362 M2 217 1008 924 j
portant part. Of all the customers of England only Germany, France,
and Italy buy more coal than Sweden. I f we bear tbis in mind, it ought
to be clear that, when it comes to the conclusion of commercial and maritime
treaties, Sweden holds considerably higher trumps*®- owing to ;her
important position in the shipping world -if’ than might be expected" from
her comparatively insignificant position in the matter of commerce pure
and simple.
T able 116. Foreign Shipping for 1912, arranged under Nations-1
Nationality
Steam ships, in thousand tons Sailing vessels, in thousand tons
Entered Cleared
Total
Entered Cleared
Total 1
ballast Laden In
Laden In
ballast Laden In
ballast Laden In
ballast
Swedish . . . . 3 840 1827 4 237 1458 11362 238 253 470 48 1009
Norwegian. . . . 478 395 759 154 1786 32 77 92 12 21::
Finnish . . . . 49 248 65 —294 656 46 18 37 27 B r
Russian . . . . 11 13 21 8 53 10 3 10 3 20
Danish................ 360 1932 834 1417 4543 63 82 125 18 288
German . . . . 1012 566 1447 115 3140 58 48 104 6 216
D u tch ................ 22 196 215 7 440 15 6 19 3 B p
Belgian................ 6 5 9 —, 20 ' . 1 a8 ü ¡ B B S 9
English . . . . 469 243 574 172 1458 — 3 3 — 6
French. . . . . 7 8 13 ■ 9 29 ■ H — ^ B •—. ¡¡¡¡|çr
Spanish . . . 16 7 9 32 — g |lj% m f
Italian................ 5 -■ 5 10 1 — — 3 2
Austrian . . . . 3. 7 15 3 28 I I B 1 — ■ E 9 —
Argentine . . . ' —:• 2 2 2 6 ;— ■ § -
Canadian . . . . 3 3 — : 6 — Wtr-
Siamese . . . . ■ 9 5 5 n 10 — — —
Total 6278 5 450 8 206 3645 23579 462 491 861 118 1932
1 By “ships in ballast” is to be understood such ships as hare cargoes a m o u n t i n g to
less than one-tenth of the registered capacity. Hence the description applies to most
passenger boats.
T able 117. Shipping Communications with Foreign Countries in 1912.
To or from
Laden vessels'
thousand tons
Vessels in ballast
thousand tons
Total
thousand tons
Swedish Other Total Swedish Other Total Swedish Other Total
197 66 263 166 168 834 363 234 597
Denmark............... 737 794 1531 1689 3 525 5214 2 426 4 319 6 745
56 99 155 157 589 746 213 688 901
Great Brit, and Irel. 3 249 ■ 794 5043 496 348 844 3 745 2142 5 887
599 426 1025 159 296 455 758 722 1480
Belgium................... 194 * 79 273 12 34 46 206 113 319
Germ. Emp. . . . 2 936 2 721 5 657 698 906 1604 3 634 3 627 7 261
France .................... 292 248 540 12 18 30 304 266 570
232 111 343 180 191 371 412 302 714
Other Countries . . 292 685 977 17 43 60 309 728 1037
Total 8 784 7 023 15807 3 586 6118 9 704 12 370 13 141 25 511
Motor-vessel, the “Suecia”, belonging to the Rederiaktiebolaget Nordstjernan
(iJohnson Line), Stockholm.
Built in 1912; 2 000 H. P.; 6 550 tons burden.
According to n a tiona lity the shipping is distributed as shown in Tables
115—117. On an average, during the years 1876—80, vessels with a tonnage
of altogether 2-27 million tons flew the Swedish flag; in 1912, the
figure had advanced to 12-37 millon tons. During the same period the
tonnage of foreign vessels had grown from 4-16 million tons to 13-14 million.
Expressed as a percentage of the sum total, the figure for Swedish
vessels during the first-named period reached 35 %, and, for the year
1912, nearly 50 %, which shows a considerable advance.