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340 A History of Sweden
before. There are at present about 12,000 factories in
operation in Sweden, employing some 400,000 persons,
with an annual output amounting to over a billion dol-
lars.
In her manufactures Sweden’s great handicap has
been her lack of coal. Its importation has been too ex-
pensive. Her abundant water power now being con-
verted into electrical power will remove the handicap.
F. TRADE AND TRANSPORTATION
Foreign Trade. Lively trade relations have been en-
tered into with Germany and Poland, which offer a rich
market for Swedish products. The direct connection
with Prussia’s railroad net by steam ferries between
Trelleborg and Sassnitz is in consequence of great im-
portance. Another encouraging circumstance regard-
ing Swedish trade is the effort to dispense with middle-
men and to deal directly with the producers a good
old policy from the days of Gustavus Vasa. Now
regular steamship lines extend from Sweden not only
to the large transshipment wharves of Copenhagen,
Hamburg, London, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and other
places, but, by subsidies from the state, also across the
oceans to South Africa, North and South America,
Eastern Asia, and Australia. The Swedish merchant
fleet has considerably increased in tonnage during the
last decade. A new day has dawned for Swedish com-
merce.
Construction of Canals. Swedish inland navigation
was greatly enhanced by the construction of Gota Ca-
nal. A number of smaller canals had already been built.
The most noted was Trollhatte Canal, finished in 1800.
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