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Annual Number of Ton-Kilometres transported per Kilometre of Line.
A. North-West Europe.
(a) Paris-London (375 km.) in 1932 (two British companies, one French company ;
several daily services all the year round, Sundays included) : 5>274 t.-km. per km. of
line.
(b) Amsterdam-London (426 km.) in 1932 (one Netherlands company; daily
service all the year round, operated j ointly for four months with the Deutsche Lufthansa;
these results have not been combined here) : 744 t.-km. per km. of line.
(c) Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam (440 km.) in 1932 (operated jointly by one
Netherlands company and one French company ; daily service) : 623 t.-km. per km. of
line.
(d) Amsterdam-Malmo (700 km.) in 1932 (one Netherlands company, with a
daily service from April 1st to September 30th ; one Swedish company, with a daily
service from March 1st to December 31st) : 543 t.-km. per km. of line.
(e) London-Brussels-Cologne-Dusseldorf (570 km.) in 1932 (daily service operated
by a Belgian company over the whole route ; daily service—tri-weekly in winter—
operated by a British company between London-Brussels-Cologne ; German daily
service Cologne-Dusseldorf) : 540 t.-km. per km. of line.
(f) Berlin-Hanover-Amsterdam-London (991 km.) in 1931 (daily service operated
by a German company) : 460 t.-km. of line.
(g) Paris-Cologne-Berlin (908 km.) (daily service operated jointly by a German
company—1931 results—and a French company—1932 results) : 335 t.-km. per km. of
line.
(h) Paris-Marseilles (730 km.) in 1932 (daily service operated by a French
company) : 334 t.-km. per km. of line.
(i) Berlin-Halle/Leipzig-Nuremberg-Munich (527 km.) in 1931 (daily service
operated by a German company) : 300 t.-km. per km. of line.
B. Central Europe.
(a) Basle-Zurich-Munich-Vienna (690 km.) (daily service for six months operated
by a Swiss company over the whole route, 79 t.-km. ; German-Austrian service between
Zurich-Munich, 41 t.-km. ; Austrian service Munich-Vienna, result unknown) : In all,
probably 160 t.-km. per km. of line.
(b) Prague-Leipzig-Essen-Rotterdam-Amsterdam (893 km.) in 1932 (daily service
for six months, operated by a Czechoslovak company) : 75 t.-km. per km. of line.
C. Northern Europe.
Stockholm-Turku-Helsinki (452 km.) in 1932 (daily service operated by a Finnish
company for eight months and a Swedish company for four months) : 267 t.-km. per
km. of line.
D. Eastern Europe.
(a) Prague-Brno-Bratislava-Kosice-Uzhorod (718 km.) in 1932 (daily service
operated by a Czechoslovak company for seven and a-half months over the whole line
and for eleven months between Prague and Bratislava) : 162 t.-km. per km. of line.