The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-03-10
Worlds GREATEST PORTS
NEW YORK Is NOT MAKING ANY
PROGRESS.
European Cities Going Ahead-Com-
mercc of Liverpool Has Increased 40
Per Cent-Different Notable Ports.

Some German merchants, bankers
and imperial officers have found great
encouragement in the fact established
by figures that, while during the last
ten wears the commerce of the city of
Liverpool has increased forty per cent,
the tonnage of vessels arriving at or
departing from the German port of
Hamburg has increased seventy per
cent in the same period. The geo.
graphical position of Liverpool is high
ly favorable to shipping, and the docks
of Liverpool, it is well known, have at
large expense made the harbor "A most
desirable one in the facilities which It
gives to vessels of all dimensions. But
recently Liverpool has had to contend
with the serious industrial and mer-
camille rivalry of the city of Man
chester, and the business of Manchest-
er has been greatly promoted by the
Manchester canal. The German gov
eminent, in the construction of the
new Baltic canal, has Disseminated in
favor of Hamburg, which has in
creased it's shipping business very
largely of late years at the expense
of the other North German port of
Bremen. At the close of the Franco
Prussian war the tonnage of vessels
arriving in and departing from Ham
burg was 1000, 900, and of Bremen in
the same year 100000. Since then the
commerce of Bremen has increased
about rs per cent and that of Ham-
burg 800 per cent.
Notwithstanding these great gains
the city of London still retains its re-
markable distinction of Being the
greatest port in the world for sea-go-
ing vessels, New York following not
very far behind, but showing COM
paratively little increase. The num-
Der of ships, steel, steam or sail, which
leave the port of New York in year
is about 1000, and more than two
thirds of the total number of such YES
sells are registered under foreign flags
New York has gained of late years in
respect of the amount of business done
with European ports, but there has
been no corresponding increase in the
volume of business done with domestic
ports. and moreover the city OF New
York has had to meet very strong com
petition. from Baltimore and New Or.
leans, a considerable portion of the
shipments of western grain having
been diverted to these ports and away
from New York. The business Of the
port of London is very largely of a
local character, London being mart
of consumption and interchange OF
articles arriving from other parts OF
England.
The four cities of London, New
| York. Liverpool and Hamburg stand al
the head of the ports of the world
| but there are others at which a very
large mercantile business is done
some decreasing, but a larger number
| ldlllHS. W hccp up WIN thS iuIlO VI
growth in mercantile business. Ant
werp in Belgium stands fifth among
the commercial ports of the world ant
very near it, with volume of tonnage
nearly as high, is Marseilles in France
the chief port of the Mediterranean
Havre, in France, does a considerable
business, chiefly with foreign coun
tries, in the shipping line, and Stettin
in Germany, a large business, chiefly
coastwise. The development of the
railroad and canal systems of each
port has much to do with its growth
in commercial business, and it is a fact
usually to be observed that a city
which is the terminus of a canal Ne
tains longer and better its shipping
trade than a railroad terminus. Al
least this is observable in the United
States.