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48 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
cents per long ton. From these two South Wales
ports yvere sent in 1913 to Bordeaux 349,000 tons,
Rouen 207.00(1 tons, La Rochelle 53,000 tons,
Nantes 159,000 tons, at freight rates averaging
about $1.30, such rates at the end of February,
1914, having fallen to $1 to $1.10. To Marseille
yvere sent from Cardiff and Newport 789.000 tons,
at an average freight rate of $2.10, compared with
$1.54 in February, 1914.
To Portugal, exclusive of its colonies, yvere shiplied
in 1913, 1,200,000 long tons from the United
Kingdom, of which 7S2.000 yvere sent from the
South Wales ports. Part of this coal was delivered
under contracts for state railways. For
delivery in 1914 one contract for 93,000 tons of
small steam coals yvas closed in Cardiff in Dec-ember,
1913, at $4.34 c. i. f. Lisbon. Freights aver
aged $1.70 in 1913, but were nearer $1.30 at tbe
time this contract yvas made. The Portuguese
railways use a low-quality coal, and a small contract
was closed at the end of the year at prices
which left little more than $2 per long ton to the
seller. Lisbon took 559,000 tons in 1913 from Cardiff
and Newport, and Oporto 135.000 tons. Tbe
average freight to the latter port in 1913 w-as
$2.02; rates February, 1914, were $1.51.
Spain exclusive of its colonies received from
the United Kingdom in 1913 2,500,000
I.OXO TONS
of coal, nearly all from South Wales ports. Cardiff
and Newport sent to the northern ports Bilbao.
Santander, etc., about 100,000 tons; average
freight in 1913 $1.60; freight in February, 1914.
$1.35. To Barcelona were shipped 343,000 tons:
to Malaga, 46,000 tons; to Cadiz, 43,000 tons, at
freights averaging in 1913 $2.36 to the first named
port doyvn to $2.10 to Cadiz. Rates to Barcelona
in February, 1914, were $1.80.
Italy imported 9,600,000 long tons from the
United Kingdom in 1913, of which 5.600.000 tons
were shipped from the South Wales ports. About
2,000,000 tons of the Italian imports are small
coals for the state railways, contracted for at
prices ranging from $2 to $3. There is a heavyimport
also of coal for domestic use at prices
someyvhat higher. Genoa took in 1913 from Cardiff
and Newport 1,500,000 tons, average freight
$2.20, February, 1914, freight rates, $1.57: Civlta
Vecchia. 205,000 tons, average freight, 1913, $2.38,
February, 1914, freight rates, $1.94; Messina, 126,
000 tons; Palermo, 77,000 tons; Leghorn, 279,000
fons. at average freight rates closely approximating
those to Civita Vecchia; ruling rates in February,
1914, were 30 cents to 50 cent slower.
Egypt is an annual importer of more than 3,-
000,000 tons of coal from the South "Wales ports.
The bulk of this goes to British depots at Port
Said. Shipments from Cardiff and Newport in
1913 to Alexandria amounted to 500,000 tons,
nearly all for state and railway purposes and of
high quality, large, approximating $4 f. o. b. Cardiff;
average freight, 1913, $2.39; February, 1914,
$1.82. Algeria ancl Tunis imported in 1913 1,-
336,000 tons, of yvhich the bulk went to the first
named. Shipments from Cardiff and Neyvport
to Algiers were 613,000 tons, at freights averaging
in 1914 $1.94; February, 1914, $1.35; rates to Tunis
are a fraction higher.
To French West African ports were shipped 350,-
000 tons, all from South Wales, freight rates to
Dakar averaging $2.37; to Portuguese West Africa,
218,000 tons; to British West Africa, 100.000 tons;
freight rates to Sierra Leone averaging $2.43 per
ton in 1913: in February, 1914, the shipping rate
was $2.25.
The Canary- Islands are consumers of over 1,-
000,000 tons of British coal, of which more than
half comes from the South Wales field; Madeira
lakes 100,00 tons, the Azores 20,000 tons.
FREIGHTS TO THESE ISLANDS
in 1913 averaged $2.12 and yvere 50 cents less in
February, 1914.
Brazil was a buyer in 1913 from the United
Kingdom of 1,900,000 tons of coal, of yvhich 1,600,-
000 were shipped from South Wales ports. A
limited proportion of shipments to South American
countries is of high-grade Admiralties, a large
proportion for state railways, some for domestic
purposes, and some for ooaiing ships. F. o. b.
prices at Cardiff vary from something under $3
lo neaily $5 per ton, according to quality. Rio de
Janeiro receives about half the Brazilian imports;
fi eights from Cardiff and Newport, 1913, $4.09;
charters have been fixed in February, 1914, at
$3.28. Freights to Para rule from 25 cents to
30 cents below those to Rio de Janeiro: to Bahia
somewhat higher; and to Rio Grande do Sul considerably
higher, averaging nearly $7 in 1913.
Uruguay imported over 700,000 tons from the
United Kingdom in 1913, of yvhich over 600,000
were shipped from South Wales ports to Montevideo
at freight rates averaging $4.09; February, 1914,
late, $3.28.
Argentina imported 3,700,000 tons, of which over
3,000,000 came from South Wales ports. Freights
to La Plata river were the same as those to Rio
de Janeiro. Freights to Bahia Blanca, which
took 400,000 tons in 1913 from Cardiff and Neyvport,
ranged about 50 cents in excess of those to
La Plata river.
Chile was an importer of 600,000 tons from the
United Kingdom, of yvhich two-thirds were shipped
from South Wales ports, but only a small part