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shipping between sweden and foreign countries.
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German ships has increased from 3-5 % to 13-2 % during the same
interval. With regard to the English tonnage, great changes are to be
observed. In the year 1870, 14 % of our shipping was in English hands; in
the year 1890, over 20 %; in the year 1898, it had declined to 12 %, and
in the j-ear 1912 it had further declined to 5-7 %.
Table 117 shows how the shipping facilities are distributed among the
different countries, while Table 118 shows the extent of the foreign
shipping maintained in the different parts of the country.
The number of direct Swedish lines to foreign countries has
considerably increased during recent years, and almost invariably it is the
Swedish shipping that has benefited.
Photo. Klemming, Stockholm.
Steamer the "Gauthiod", the Stockholms Rederiaktiebolag Svea, Stockholm
The regular traffic with Finland is still maintained by Finnish boats,
and similarly the Danish boats have a sort of monopoly of the
steam-ferry service maintained between Hälsingborg and Hälsingör since 1891.
On the other hand, the steam-ferry service which was set up in 1895
between Malmö and Copenhagen is carried on by Swedish and Danish
companies conjointly.
The so-called "Continental Route" between Trälleborg and the harbour
of Sassnitz, on the island of Riigen, which was started in 1897, has, since
1909, been organized as a ferry-service, taking through carriages between
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