FOREIGN TRADE ZONES
steamship organizations in important cities such as Bremen and
Hamburg.
The following steamship companies, though not important in oversea
 trade, are located at Emden: A. G. Ems, Atlas Reederei A. G.
Emder Dampfercompagnie Nuebelt & Fritzen A. G., Schulte & Bruns;
also various fisheries and companies interested in canal and river
traffic. These undertakings, however, are all interested in the
European coasting trade.
Statistics.—The greatest part of the goods that arrive at Emden
trom foreign countries is unloaded in the free zone. The Emden
statistics do not show the movement of goods through the free zone
alone. It has been ascertained from the Emden Chamber of Commerce,
 however, that practically all foreign goods come through the
free zone, with the exception of about 50 per cent of the lumber arrivals
and about 90 per cent of the general cargo. The total quantity of
cargo arriving at the port of Emden by sea each year since 1901 has
been compiled from the “Annual reports of the Chambers of Commerce
 for Ostfriesland and Papenburg,” and the tonnage of the twO
above-mentioned classes of commodities has also been calculated and
deducted therefrom. The results should give the approximate
figures of the commerce through the Emden free ports.
Growth of commerce and shipping in free ports—The following figures
show the total quantity in metric tons of cargo arriving at the port
of Emden by sea during the years mentioned. Below each total 18
given the total for lumber and general cargo, and the result of the
subtraction represents the estimated figures for the free ports.

Quantity,
in metric
tons

Quantity,
in metric
tons

Quantity,
in metrie
tons

Quantity
in metric
tons

re

1901 _.

IBZ on

1908 _ cena

1904. eee.

1008. wu manne

175, 983
33,003
142, 980

244, 414
50, 994
103, 420
368, 099
52,189
215 910

363, 009
37, 360
325,730
642, 736
34, 235
608, 501

141 S——

1907 cee

1908. cee ee

1909. oc ccmeae

1910. nnaena

767,190
27. 525

739, 665

903,310
130,071
773, 239
, 001, 635
61. 430

940, 175

4, 011, 648
66, 138
040, 175

1, 463, 946
59,422
1, 404, 524

1911 ee,

4012 ma

1018...

1924 cree

1925 cccnen..

1, 563, 540
44, 541
1, 518, 999

1, 569, 648
36, 233

1,533, 415

1, 555, 690
99, 987
1,455,703
1,624,205
130,779
1.483, 426
1,904, 470
62, 012
1 841. 56°

926 nooner 1,88 78
62, 040
- Sr
1,822,08
A
2, 465, 2%
|. 369, 379

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