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Marine Business Statistic Ss Condensed Record of Traffic at Principal American Ports for Past Year FFECTIVE as the marine EK strike appeared to be, especially May, traffic at nearly held its own instances month's early in all ports about fowl. .in several arrivals exceeded the earlier total while, as mignt be expected, depart- ures in the main were smaller at near- iy all ports. The decline in depart- ures, however, was so small in the aggregate that, with several exceptions, the strike appears to have been of minor importance. Judging from the entrances, which were large, New York trafic would have shown a de- cided improvement during May except for the engineers' strike. Despite the labor troubles the clearances did not fall much below the normal. The number of ships clearing was 72 short of the number clearing the month before, the totals inclusive of ships of all nationalities. In all some 129 American vessels cleared during the month, 82 less than the number clearing New York during April. Evidences of the breaking of the strike were apparent before the end sf May. During the first half of the month only 47 American ships sailed from New York, while during the next five days, May 16 to 25, a total of 55 American vessels got away. Foreign ship clearances at Philadel- phia during May were equal to foreign clearances during April. The strike held up American vessels and diverted traffic to foreign ships. Reduced traf- fc for the month was only slightly more than 10 per cent under April. The number of vessels entering and clearing in ballast showed no change. Striking engineers increased their ag- gressive tactics about June 1 after it was believed the owners were winning out. But so far as the cargoes of- fered are concerned, the port traffic has been hampered only slightly. Philadelphia (Including Chester, Wilmington and the whole Philadelphia port district) (Exclusive of Domestic) with --Entrances-- --Clearances-- h No. Net No. Net Month ships 'tonnage ships tonnage May, 1921,.... 110 295,617. 70 178,464 Oe ee 105 255,249 79 209,854 ky ae 102: 306,512 6 87 242,008 ebruary ...... 104 285,369 «75 ~=--«22:1,402 pea A. 84 250,233 68 217,281 November, 1920. 116 340,133 112 235,821 Oenrmber ..... 126 338,562 123 350,385 gctober Meets. 2195 / 328,074 165 465,800 Apember .... 144 385,676 153 467,357 pugust ........ 153 377,695 156 438,230 Ro eres 104 250,104 93 272,913 Sen 121 286,061 79 196,787 Ot ieee... 129 316.246 126 315,997 New York (Exclusive of Domestic) --Entrances-- --Clearances-- No. Net No. Net Month ships tonnage ships tonnage May, 1921... 425. 1,454,033 366 1.328646 April - 410 1,453,056 438 1,509,353 Mare cers. aK 455 1;574,526 448 1,539,885 Bebruary: 3.02% 424 1,407,133 374 1,315,556 January. eat. 455 1,437,725 414 1,433,564 December, 1920. 516 1,732,485 518 1,802,929 November ..... 495 1,741,786 482 1,691,683 October :3.... 4. 526 1,763,904 514 1,719,103 September 506 1,728,266 493 1,574,228 Ausust Se teiod. 537 1,634,719 499 1,649,416 tly ose i es S10 a6276721 462 1,518,406 VON Ese oes 508 1,545,144 436 1,364,297 MEA. 5 Sos ec acestueetes 444 1,343,052 390 1,258,996 Portland, Me. : (Exclusive of Domestic) --Entrances-- --Clearances-- No. Net No. Net Month ships tonnage ships tonnage -- April e1921 3 17 54,804 19 64,310 Marche ce; 24 75,529 20 80,107 Pebruary <2. 20 66,422 21 73,581 Januatye7.ssc. 34 93,933 28 86,559 December, 1920. 36 96,281 31, 107,567 November ..... 37 61,804 16 23,282 October ....... 15 22,240 13 19,862 September .... 14 29,993 5 12,661 August ...... SOL 42,464 14 8,626 tly cc 19 27,314 = 9 9,022 JUNC oo. wes 29 45,670 12 34,886 Mayr See, 25 44,634 17 30,537 Aprils sos. «050. 17 46,003 24 69,688 Boston (Exclusive of Domestic) --Entrances-- --Clearances-- No. Net No. Net Month ships tonnage ships tonnage Maye 1991 ese. 122 190,148 87 98,008 'Apa Ro cialeiadave ne 101 217,080 i 133,952 March. si... 99 306,454 49 113,184 February ..... 74 260,502 46 119,847 anuary ....... 72 ~ 175,052 50 125,904 aan 1920. 66 178,656 51 128,439 November ..... 79 193,433 De 107,112 October ......- 82 182,028 62 116,007 September .... 99 210,496 75 123,045 August. cicio. 189 285706. 83 124,643 Jil. eee A 212,954 87 124,699 JUNE eas ose 120 = 198,136 88 124,594 May 222330055. 85 124,670 81 87,436 Mobile (Exclusive of Domestic) --Entrances-- --Clearances-- No. Net No. Net Month ships tonnage ships tonnage Dh oes 43. 67,627 45 (71756 ree eee 96 249,996 76 150,776 March = <i.25 > 79 140,798 56 82,898 February ...-- 58 105,040 47 89,647 94,273 63 78,109 January ...--- 68 A 122'293 December, 1920. 97 147,575 74 ete November ..--» 73 91,814 54 ees October ...--> 64 98,107 81 fetes September ....- 55 102,589 60 47201 ee 77 118,308 7¥ 4127, ar 74 117,421 +68 +~---:101,845 July --s----77" 72 (ogss 65 92,090 Mavi cue. ote 64 105,233 79 109, Savannah i f Domestic) inca ---Clearances-- No. Net No. et Month ships tonnage ships tonnage 16 36,377 May, 1921...-- c ene i gees April soccer ete oY 19 924 14 29.618 Mare sec 5 Add 1 ATS Februsty #1) 4) 991591 20. 38,179 January song 22 45,085 26. 36,410 December, 1920. of 61.316 18 28/108 November ----- aS -35°837 33 55,632 Orober "7° 9, 45,316 41. 46 Bas September .---- = 22'362 16 31.695 August .-+--°° 16 29,561 14 23,679 uly on 0 04-08 * 08 20 41,844 21 oes une --*-° eocese 16 29,270 17 36,4 AY or eres tt 329 San Francisco (Inclusive of Domestic) --Entrances-- --Clearances-- No. Net No. Net Month ships tonnage ships tonnage May, LOZ T vs Zi: 594,409 164 426,255 April ee oe 377° 607,559 452°. 7038;717 March Shey weete 335 645,435 341 611,575 Bebruary 20.3. 305 594,636 297 548,103 January i) A223, 356 585,689 330 566,201 December, 1920. 388 606,666 359 561,188 November ..... 393 640,474 399 633,274 October...254; 431 641,970 421 639,323 September ..... 399 549,468 391 566,048 August . 427. 653,372 401 604,069 Jal oe ss 393 589,656 411 660,377 June oe se 396 587,499 383 601,054 Maysic2g. os 418 579,914 438 622,608 Key West (Exclusive of Domestic) --Entrances-- --Clearances--* No. Net No. Net Month ships tonnage ships tonnage May, 1921 oe 100 104,326 104 103,571 Aprils: oo ae. 115.4 117,586 111. =: 114,748 March 772.2 112 107,736 108 107,083. February 3... 3% 124 118,950 120° =119,241 January: oci sa: 128 146,679 127 142,474. December, 1920. 121 102,611 121 97,733 November ..... 103 90,374 98 82,126 October .....: 84 92,944 79 ~--s- 80,681 September ..... 97 87,017 95 89,030 _AUSUSt: oe OS 91,442 102 87,420 July. 2G ee: 90 83,862 89 83,374 June. cic ece.. 94 85,776 95 84,583 Mayor ce aes 98 85,982 99 84,600 Baltimore (Exclusive of Domestic) --Entrances-- --Clearances-- No. Net No. Net Month ships tonnage ships tonnage May, 1921 sys 109 341,731 112 .341,381 April jig oe 114 320,195 119- 351,950 March 4... .t%.. 111 320,238 107 316,536 February ..... 112 380,602 93 292,881 Jantlary.. 2.0, - 131 = 401,511 112 344,480 --To foreign ports direct-- December, 1920 92 264,142 113 329,320 November 109 =316,743 145 425,493 October ...... 134 372,463 188 545,974 September 120 353,374 143 409,839 August, ....... 103 282,370 169 473,160 Daly ee eae ee 140 401,116 155 454,643 JUNG sce beeen 143 411,978 183 528,270 May. .. 121 360,192 153 434,472 Los Angeles (Exclusive of Domestic) --Entrances-- --Clearances-- | No. Net No. Net Month ships tonnage ships tonnage March, 1921. ....:.39 99,455 33 94,380 February ....:.. 74 97,252 60 93,544 anuary s..ei. 60 111,882 86 64,844 ecember, 1920. 74 60,333 56 61,211 November ...... 69 89,143 79 91,763 October... ..... 5, 65 72,101 85 104,304 September ...... 27 70,989 34 77,330 August. .34..5 55 20 44,580 WY a ee 15 40,218 Tune 15 aa 28 41,275 BV as eee s 28 47,151 Aprile ees ois ck 24 30,731 arch 46 38,821 Seattle Deep seaarrivals Deep sea departures No. Net No. Net Month ships tonnage ships tonnage ril, 1921..... 143 . 339,192 163 370,070 March ice eeee 149 372,824 144 369,568 February ..... 103. 295,144 101 272,136 January. &...2. 131 312,072 134 344,877 December, 1920. 205 323,744 186 302,051 November 256 348,452 228 337,890 October... 2.5 359 347,412 314 366,669 September 422 380,582 323. §©345,535 AMNGUSE . cc c0cn 438 371,148 393 368,327 Vly oss e ee 417 441,626 461 444,607 HOE S55 science 353 332,666 433 346,849 av oc eeseeeee 376 328,594 392 324,932 April « $28 331,921 348