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case no ^reat likelihood of Persia seeking to close her coasting trade to British ships
in the near future, as certain other Powers have done, as there is reason to think
hat she recognises the advantages of the services in this matter performed by
British shipping, and so long as our ships have equal rights with those of any other
foreign nationality the existing position is likely to be maintained, Persian shipping
being inadequate for the purpose. u'u - i -?•
It should perhaps be observed that the coasting trade, which is spoken of in
this memorandum is the coasting trade in the strict sense, that is to say (in the case
of Persia) the carriage from one Persian port to another of Persian goods or Persian
passengers It does not, of course, include the voyages from one Persian port to
another of ships engaged in the foreign trade for the purpose of landing at a
succession of such ports persons or cargoes brought from abroad, or taking up at a
succession of such ports persons or cargoes bound for a foreign destination. It is
of great importance to British shipping that the right to continue trade of this
description should be maintained, and provisions to this effect are always included
in our Treaties.
Board of Trade, 5. IP. 1,
August 20, 1928.
Annex.
Share of British Shipping in the Persian Coasting Trade.
The bulk of the overseas trade of Persia is carried in British ships, as is shown
by the following figures, taken from the Persian Official Report for the year 1925-26,
the latest period for which statistics are available. These figures show the nett
tonnage of ships cleared outwards from Persian ports, and the quantity of cargo
exported in these ships :—
Fla<r.
British
Persian
German
Other
(Thousands of tons.)
Xett tonnage. Cargo exported.
8.981 4,549
182 35
133 7
58 9
Total
9.354
4,600
is, therefore, probable that a large proportion of the coastwise traffic betweei
ersian ports is m practice carried in British ships. From the information available
i seems cei am that the total volume of this traffic is quite small, compared witl
fiimro 0 me k 0 traffic between Persia and other countries, but exac
figures are not available.
cnastTmr t 0 r^!L^ n fE W ^ C ^- C u n T^j- re ?^ r< ^ e ^ a ? ^ av ^ n g a regular service in the Persiai
arif j iv.fLpU- /%v, e TadlaLme , w hich runs two weekly services from Bomba^
onlv^t B^ht v v, erSlan T" 11 J 0 ^ e of the?e > th « “ fast mail ’ service, touche
service 1 and Basra ' but the . otb er, the “ subsidiary mail '
side of the milf fn iVp 11 tlf ( the Persian Gulf, zigzagging from om
Abbas Linmih Bn«hir» 0 aTv. le gajonty of these ports, Charbar, Jask. Bunde:
Z’^? a Tg ah ’ a , re m Persia ' In addition, there are one o
Karachi to the Persian f u f" "j 1 mn :ii occasional voyages from Bombay am
(native sailing veSen^’f, a certain number of Indian “country craft'
Company are^btaininir fmm InT tlm ®. to . tlme ' n this trade. The British Indi;
and cargo) which thev carry in tbei'r °f ^.amount of traffic (passenge:
the total volume of this traffic is f er ^ la n ports, but they think tha
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