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 
Uy 
» 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, un- 
identified....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