INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS
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Of the total number in 1911, 4,523 Dutch vessels entered with a tonnage of 4,082,328 and 11,105 foreign vessels with a tonnage of 11,416,500 ; 4,702"Dutch vessels cleared, with a tonnage ot 4,127,994, and 11,208 foreign vessels with a tonnage of 11,277,378.
The vessels with cargoes which entered at the chief ports were as follows : —
Entered.
1910
.,-1-1 — u-_i_^
1911
Port
Number
Tons
per cent.
Number
Tons
per cent.
Rotterdam Amsterdam . Flushing
7,713
1,962
782
8,914,428
1,961,514
766,056
66-4
14 6
5-7
,401
1,997
791
10,231,308
1,942,752 1 795,792
71-3
13-5
5-6
Cleared.
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Flushing
5,867
1,436
801
5,909,676 1,424,850
761,808
59-8 14-4
5,854
L447
802
5,653,380
1,468,746
788,712
65-7
17-1
9-2
A great number of Dutch vessels is engaged in the carrying trade l)etween foreign ports. The coasting trade is of no importance.
Internal Communications.
I. Canals and Railways.
The total extent of the canals was in 1879, 1,907 miles ; of roads,2,943 miles.
In 1910 the total length of the principal tramway lines was 1,477 miles ; 169,345,000 passengers were carried, and 1,420,792,000 kilogrammes of goods. Their revenue amounts to 13,900,000 guilders.
In 1911 the railways had a length of 1,984 miles. The breadth of the railway gauge is 1'50 metre, or 4 ft. 11 in.
The results of the railway companies in the last five years were : —
Passengers
Goods carried
Revenue
Expenditure
Year
carried
(metric tons)
(guilders)
(guilders)
1907
40,972,000
15,208,000
i
54,106.000
47,936,000
1908
42,005,000
15,479,000
• 55,940,000
49,239,000
1909
43,156,000
15,494,000
57,539,000
50,804,000
1910
46,221,000
16,051,000
60,242,000
51,711,000
1911
44,874,000
17,739,000
1 64,679,000
54,418,000
All railway companies are private ; there is a State railway company, only so named because the road is owned by the State.
II. Post and Telkukaphs. The postal traffic was as follows in 2 years : —
