WATER TRANSPORTATION
543
Panama Canal Traffic,
Traffic through the Panama Canal during 1925 (calendar year)
totaled 23,701,000 cargo tons, as compared with 25,892,000 in 1924,
though still much more than double the 1922 figure. This decrease
is accounted for by the large drop in shipments of mineral oils from
the west coast of the United States. These shipments, in 1924,
aggregated 7,229,000 as compared with 4,588,000 tons in 1925.
Apart from petroleum our intercoastal shipments were about 750,000
tons greater in 1925. The traffic from the west coast to the east
coast has been much heavier during the past three years than the
west bound cargo, a fact attributable chiefly to the large shipments of
crude oils and lumber, most of which go to the eastern seaboard of
the United States. The cargo from the Pacific to the Atlantic was
71 per cent of the total in 1924, and 68 per cent in 1925. Traffic by
origin and destination (fiscal years) is shown in Table 34.
Table 38.—Commercial Trafic Through the Panama Canal
[All figures are cargo tonnage expressed in thousands
Total. ooo...
American vessels. __
foreign vessels... _
British. ._.._.._.
Atlantic to Pacific __|
Pacific to Atlantic
01’
532
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» Je
a10
‘3
7
C8)
1 178
C20
3, YR.
roar ended Tina 2N—
an
Qr
599
43
73
3
L092
5. 707
0, £85
951
34
du
S20
19923
19, 568
©0585
£13
729
+, 086
12. 482
1094
28. 995
'2, 554
0, 340
1, 052
., 860
9 135
[G95
13, 859
(2, 080
R79
917
.,358
i6 560
Calendar vear
1094
ET
25,892 93,701
14,666 12,678
11,226 11,023
5353, 5,076
1,541 7,560
18.351 16 141
Source: Report of the Governor of the Panama Canal.
Table 34.—Commercial Trafic Through the Panama Canal, by Origin or
Destination
‘All figures are cargo tonnage expressed in thousands and relate to vears ended June 30]
Origin or destination
Atlantic to Pacific
1999
1993
994 | 1005
Total ____..__....I6,408 7,088 I'7,860 | 7.308
From:
United States, east
00ASE. .._oonaeeen (3,771 [5,020
West Indies ._.._| 157 | 37
Central America... .. . ...._.
South America. | 54 | 82
Canada_....____.""! 95 —
Mexico_.__._.______ 135! eg7
Cristobal, Canal .
Zone... ._.__._____ 89 95
British Teles. 7777" god | sis
Other Europe. ____ R75 04g
lo:
United States, west
Coast. oeecno_. [1,673 13,202 3,347 2,014
South America.....| 814 1,063 1,290 1,338
Danada...........| 18 |'102| "141, "159
Sentral America_...| 52 59 90 144
North America, unidentified....enu..
Hwwrel] cies nnssesy
Tar Bast... ooveoo.
Australagia.___._...
Balboa, Canal Zone.
Miscellaneaus
156
71
-k 1,218
202 1,289
58 | 24
R0 RQ
from United States
east coast, to United
States, west coast___ 11.988 [2.608
2710 i
9 914
Source: Report of Governar of the Panama Canal
Origin or destination
Pacific to Atlantic
1992 | 1023 | 1924 | 1925
15.388 112.482 119. 135 te zen
Total... ._
From:
United States,
west coast. ....._|2,868 7,456 |12, 984
South America. __.|1,318 | 3,308 4,008
Canada.__._.......| 181 | 605 | 1,223
Central America._.| 81 86 7
North America,
unidentified....._.__._ 122 0M 268
Hawpll. ncccnnunns) 112 23 32 45
For Bast_....._._..| 323 | 409 | 104 | 134
Australasia..._....| 440 398 3m 481
Miscellaneous. ._..! 87 76 135 107
To:
United States,
east coast...._...(2,206
West Indies.......| 43
South America... 7
Canada... 7
Mexico. mmo ioa|nnnes
Cristobal, Canal
Zone... ..c.....| 145 180 215 157
British Isles. __.._.11,677 1,628 2,169 2,356
Other Rurope...._|1,187 , 1,879 1, 9% | 2,335
Vi~allagom % termi] 28 65 78 143
8,054 [13,811 10,821
223 | 127 106
B81 35], 60
1251 197 |" 879
nr R05 177
"rom United States,
west coast, to
United States. east
Arnot
4.274 | 5,460 110.808 ' 7.983
