Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Communications

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31) 1876 —1893 average 23 thousand krénur 1894 —1903 107 sv 1904—1913 150 1914-1923 451 1924 —1928 - 789 In the budget for the present year (1930) the State expenditure on roads and bridges is put at one million krénur, as follows: adminis- tration of matters concerning roads, 46 thousand; national roads, 580 thousand; bridges, 200 thousand; mountain roads, 25 thousand; dis- trict roads, 110 thousand; iools for road-making work, and sundry other expenses, 41 thousand. For particulars respecting parish and district expenditure on roads, see article on State and Municipal Finance, ». 48. SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION The Icelandic mercantile marine is comparatively Jarge, and consisted in 1929 of 69 steamers and motor ships of over 100 tons, aggregating some 25000 tons gross register tonnage, or about 240 tons per every 1000 inhabitants. In 1928 (Lloyd's Register of Shipping) only Norway, The United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Denmark had proportion- ately larger merchant fleets, or respectively 1063, 502, 374 and 308 tons per every 1000 inhabitants. Besides ships of 100 tons and upwards, there is also a great number of smaller craft, especially motor boats, which are almost all engaged in the fisheries, as are also the majority of the ships of over 100 tons (trawlers, herring boats, and long-liners). For the fishing fleet, see p. 65. Down to the Great War almost all transport to and from Iceland as well as the majorily of the coastwise trade was carried on in for- eign, mostly Danish or Norwegian, bottoms. From 1870 to 1875 the mail service between Iceland and other countries was performed by one single steamer, owned by the Danish government, and making 7 trips a year, generally touching at only one port in the country t Reykjavik). Since 1876 the United Steamship Company, Copenhagen {Det fore- nede Dampskibsselskab) has kept up a regular steam service between Iceland and Denmark, usually with a port of call in Scotland (Leith). For many years, too, the coastal traffic was also in the hands of this company which in consequence was subsidized by the Icelandic go- vernment. At present the Company is running ships regularly every fortnight both between Reykjavik and Leith in Scotland, and between

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