Port Capacity

[herwin]

Prewar (mostly 1938) figures:

>30 million tons/year: London, New York, Moji, Shimonoseki
25-30: Kobe (1937), Rotterdam
20-25: Hamburg, Osaka (1936)
15-20: Antwerp, Liverpool, Marseilles, Philadelphia, Port Said, San Francisco, Singapore
10-15: Aruba, Boston, Buenos Aires, Colombo, Curacao, Darien, Funchal (Mad.), Genoa, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Houston, Istanbul, Le Havre, Los Angeles, Montevideo, Nagoya, Naples, Rio de Janiero, Santos, Southampton, Sydney, Vancouver, Wakamatsu, Yokohama
7.5-10: Aden, Algiers, Baltimore, Bremen, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Cowes, Dakar, Lisbon, Melbourne, Newcastle, New Orleans, Shanghai
5-7.5: Alexandria, Barcelona (1935), Batavia, Belfast, Bombay, Cardiff, Cherbourg, Durban, Gdynia, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Hakodate, Hull, Kirin, Montreal, Oran, Oslo, Piraeus, Plymouth, Sourabaya, Stockholm, Trieste, Venice, Victoria (BC), Vigo
2.5-5: Abadon, Adelaide, Amsterdam, Aomori, Auckland, Beirut, Bordeaux, Boulogne, Brisbane, Bristol, Calcutta, Canton, Casablanca, Danzig, Dover, Dunkirk, East London, Fremantle, Galveston, Greenock-Port Glasgow, Haifa, Halifax, Harwich, Halsingborg, Helsinki, Kingston (Jamaica), Livorno, Lourenco Marques, Malmo, Malta, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Otaru, Palermo, Penang, Port Elizabeth, Port of Spain (Trinidad), Quebec, Rosario (1937), Rouen, Sabine (Texas), Saigon, Sassnitz, Semarang, Split, Stettin, Swansea, Tientsin, Valencia (1935), Valparaiso, Wellington
1-2.5: Aalborg, Aarhus, Antofagasta, Bangkok, Bari, Bilbao, Brindisi, Calais, Catania, Dublin, Emden, Fiume, Ghent, Grimsby, Iquique (1932), Izmir, Jaffa, Kiel, Koenigsberg, La Pallice-La Rochelle, Leixoes, Leningrad (1936), Luebeck, Lyttleton, Macassar, Messina, Nantes, Newcastle (NSW), Newport, New Westminster (BC), Ostend, Porta Delgada (Az), Riga, Rostock-Wismar-Warnemuende, St. John (NB), Samboe, Sete, Susak, Tallinn, Tampico (1931), Salonika, Vera Cruz (1927), Yokkaichi.

[TulliusDetritus]

Sorry to ask this but are you sure it's "capacity" or maybe "activity"? If it's the latter numbers may be different: it all depends on the economic, commercial activity. There may be fluctuations.

[herwin]

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus

Sorry to ask this but are you sure it's "capacity" or maybe "activity"? If it's the latter numbers may be different: it all depends on the economic, commercial activity. There may be fluctuations.

Activity.

[Andrew Brown]

That looks like a very interesting and useful list. Thanks!!

[Dili]

What is the source?
Note that Spain just came out of Civil War.

[herwin]

I think it was a world almanac. The notes date back to when I was at TRW and living in Hawthorne, CA.

[Dili]

okay thanks. Btw it is Rio de Janeiro, Ponta Delgada, Leixões and Lourenço Marques.