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File 1283/1913 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Anglo-German Commercial Competition' [318v] (240/272)
The record is made up of 1 item (135 folios). It was created in 23 May 1912-24 December 1913. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Imports to Persian and Arab ports were therefore slightly less on the aggre
gate than in iqoo-io, and 1907-08 : while imports to Turkish ports on the Tigris
more than douUed any previous year, reaching the high figure of 326,814
packages.
Comparison of average imports to Bushire by the various lines works out as
follows:—
Total
Number of ships
Average.
packages.
with cargo.
1910*11.
1909-10.
Hamburg-America Line
40,625
13
3» I2 5
2,167
Anglo-Algerian
60,092
13
4,622
3» 2 95 )
Bucknall S. S. ... ...
37 > 34 2
10
3>734
¥316
4,828
rTT 5
West Hartlepool ...
16,283
8
2 ,o 35
2,170
The second-named line also carried 3,110 tons coal to Bushire : the last
named tons 537.
N.B .—The Anglo-AIgerian and Bucknall Lines, though still consigned to
different agents at Gulf ports, are now working under the same
management, F. C. Strick and Co., Limited, in London, and the
number of regular ships of each line despatched during the year is
a matter of private arrangement: for convenience specially char
tered vessels are often sent by this management.
Far the most important article of shipment by the German vessels is sugar,
4 , . 4 and, as feared in the Report for 1900-10,
Analysis of import cargoes. ,, ^ ^.
the German line is rapidly increasing its
controlling interest in sugar in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
region : —
Sugar (loaf and crystal together) : Packages —
—
1907-08.
1908-09.
1909-10.
1910-11.
Maskat
...
150
660
500
801
Bandar Abbas
• ••
I >997
5 , 2 5 o
8,600
17,809
Ling^h ...
...
7,964
7,402
6,111
6,413
Bahrein
5-553
1,960
3.050
6,555
Bushire
6,470
8,560
10,724
37,034
Mohammerah
...
5.349
6,546
17.657
20,707
Total
• • •
27,483
30,378
46,642
89.319
—
1908.
1909.
1910.
1911.
Basreh and Baghdad
...
48,652
47.374
113,839
( 17,489
(. 123,689
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This is part one (of two) of a larger volume IOR/L/PS/10/366; it concerns increasing German competition experienced by British firms trading in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region, and contains discussion between British officials as to possible action to strengthen the latter.
Specific issues predominantly discussed in this part include:
- suggestions for the introduction of a lighterage (i.e. lightering) service on the Shatt el Arab, and counter claims that such a service is not required;
- a trial to import Indian wood from Mysore for use in boxes for the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. date trade to compete with wood imported from Europe in German ships;
- the view that better co-ordination is needed between British shipping companies and the British Government in order to compete with the Germans.
The file also contains two memoranda of interviews held at the Board of Trade: an interview with H J Tweedy representing the Basra Trading Company on 27 March 1913 (see ff 289-290) and an interview with C J Longcroft representing David Sassoon and Company on 3 April 1913 (see ff 270-271). It also contains a printed note by Haji Sultan Shushtari calling for a Persian shipping company to provide competition to the British India Steam Navigation Company (see folio 240).
Henry George Chick's (Commercial Adviser and Vice-Consul at Bushire) reports on German Trade and Shipping in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. have been included in this part for 1910-11 (see ff 315-329) and 1911-12 (see ff 219-230 and ff 201-215, two copies), along with a copy of a Diplomatic and Consular Report on the Trade of Basra for 1911 (see ff 272-282).
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This item is part of a larger physical volume and is located towards the back; it occupies folios 199-334.
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- File 1283/1913 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Anglo-German Commercial Competition'
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- 199r:239v, 241r:249v, 251r:334v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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