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BRITAIN: AN OFFICIAL HANDBOOK
world’s largest warehouse. Liverpool is also important for transatlantic passenger
traffic and short sea-route and coastwise trading. Manchester’s chief import is raw
cotton.
TABLE 24
Port Arrivals and Departures, 1957
(With Cargo and in Ballast)
Thousand tons net
Port
Foreign Trade
Coasting Trade
Total
London
Southampton
Liverpool
Tyne Ports
Glasgow
Belfast
Manchester . .
(including Runcorn)
Hull
Bristol
Swansea
Middlesbrough
Totals
Totals all Ports
51,260
32,124
29,725
8,023
10,433
2,387
11,446
8,127
6,770
6,722
6,639
22,387
8,509
7,194
8,155
3,980
11,807
2,717
3,219
3,055
3,046
2,739
173,656
76,808
238,697
150,034
73,647
40,633
36,919
16,178
14,413
14,194
14,163
11,346
9,825
9,768
9,378
250,464
388,731
Source: Board of Trade Journal.
Southampton, largest of the Channel ports, is the chief port for ocean passenger
traffic. It owes its importance to its double tides and easy access from London.
A considerable volume of oil is now handled for the refinery at Fawley.
Newcastle upon Tyne and the other Tyne ports serve the industrial North-East
and comprise the most important coal-shipping and largest ship-repairing centre
in the country.
Hull, on the Humber estuary, serves particularly the industrial centres of York¬
shire and the Midlands. Middlesbrough imports iron ore for, and exports iron and
steel from, the local iron and steel industries.
Swansea has the largest trade of the group of ports serving South Wales. As
well as coal, Swansea exports the steel and tinplate manufactured in its immediate
neighbourhood, but its rapidly increasing importance derives largely from the oil
which it imports and exports for local refineries.
Bristol and Avonmouth serve the industrial Midlands as well as the highly
industrialised city of Bristol itself, and also have a large coastal trade.
Glasgow, the principal Scottish port, serves as an entrepot centre for the industrial
area of central Scotland.
Grangemouth, also in Scotland, handles oil to and from the local refinery, and
also imports timber, iron ore, cement, paper-making materials and general cargo.
Belfast is the principal port of Northern Ireland and handles the main Irish Sea
traffic.
BRITAIN: AN OFFICIAL HANDBOOK
world’s largest warehouse. Liverpool is also important for transatlantic passenger
traffic and short sea-route and coastwise trading. Manchester’s chief import is raw
cotton.
TABLE 24
Port Arrivals and Departures, 1957
(With Cargo and in Ballast)
Thousand tons net
Port
Foreign Trade
Coasting Trade
Total
London
Southampton
Liverpool
Tyne Ports
Glasgow
Belfast
Manchester . .
(including Runcorn)
Hull
Bristol
Swansea
Middlesbrough
Totals
Totals all Ports
51,260
32,124
29,725
8,023
10,433
2,387
11,446
8,127
6,770
6,722
6,639
22,387
8,509
7,194
8,155
3,980
11,807
2,717
3,219
3,055
3,046
2,739
173,656
76,808
238,697
150,034
73,647
40,633
36,919
16,178
14,413
14,194
14,163
11,346
9,825
9,768
9,378
250,464
388,731
Source: Board of Trade Journal.
Southampton, largest of the Channel ports, is the chief port for ocean passenger
traffic. It owes its importance to its double tides and easy access from London.
A considerable volume of oil is now handled for the refinery at Fawley.
Newcastle upon Tyne and the other Tyne ports serve the industrial North-East
and comprise the most important coal-shipping and largest ship-repairing centre
in the country.
Hull, on the Humber estuary, serves particularly the industrial centres of York¬
shire and the Midlands. Middlesbrough imports iron ore for, and exports iron and
steel from, the local iron and steel industries.
Swansea has the largest trade of the group of ports serving South Wales. As
well as coal, Swansea exports the steel and tinplate manufactured in its immediate
neighbourhood, but its rapidly increasing importance derives largely from the oil
which it imports and exports for local refineries.
Bristol and Avonmouth serve the industrial Midlands as well as the highly
industrialised city of Bristol itself, and also have a large coastal trade.
Glasgow, the principal Scottish port, serves as an entrepot centre for the industrial
area of central Scotland.
Grangemouth, also in Scotland, handles oil to and from the local refinery, and
also imports timber, iron ore, cement, paper-making materials and general cargo.
Belfast is the principal port of Northern Ireland and handles the main Irish Sea
traffic.
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