433 (Norway : official publication for the Paris exhibition 1900)

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In earlier times Bergen, as has been already said, was our
chief commercial town. This was the case until far on into the
present century, in as much as it was only after 1835 that the
customs duties on goods imported to Kristiania regularly exceeded
the import duties levied in Bergen. The exports from Kristiania
about 1845 were only estimated at 1.4 million kr. while those from
Bergen were estimated at 6.8 million kr., from Stavanger at 2.8
million kr., from Drammen at 2.6 million kr., and from Trondhjem
at nearly 2 million kr. In the middle of the seventies, Kristiania,
as well as Bergen, exported for about 20 million kr., Kristiansund
and Fredrikstad for about 10 million kr., Drammen for about
7 million kr. and all other towns combined for about 47 million kr.

VII. THE MOST IMPORTANT SHIPPING TOWNS.

The greater part of the total effective carrying power of
the Norwegian Mercantile Marine — 2,696,000 tons — namely
2,339,000 tons, belongs to the towns. The fleet of the most
important towns, sailing-vessels as well as steamships, at the end of
1898, will be seen by the table below.

Towns	Steamships		Sailing vessels		Aggregate tonnage	Aggregate effective carrying power [1]
Towns	Number	Tonnage	Number	Tonnage	Aggregate tonnage	Aggregate effective carrying power [1]
1. Bergen .	235	151,600	108	7,800	159,400	553,700
2. Kristiania .	168	76,600	176	117,400	194,000	393,300
3. Tønsberg . .	69	53,400	76	31,300	84,700	223,700
4. Stavanger .	69	27,100	366	64,500	91,600	162,200
5. Arendal . .	23	8,100	180	88,300	96,400	117,400

Next in importance to the towns named in the table come
Haugesund, with an effective tonnage of 86,900 tons, Drammen
(77,000 tons), Porsgrund (57,500 tons). Grimstad (56,200 tons),
Sandefjord (53,800 tons), Fredrikstad (50,500), Kristiansand (48,100),
Kragerø (47,300), Mandal (46,000), Trondhjem (42,600). As regards

[1] 1 steamship ton considered equal to 3.6 sailing-ship ton.

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