With regard to the port traffic of Rotterdam, the city's Chamber of Commerce and Industry has issued information that the movement of sen-going ships in the New Water-Way has been as follows: The ships entering the port during the month of May. 1937, numbered 1,238 as compared with 987 for the corre-spending period of the preceding year, while the total {onna e entering the port amounted to 2,096,404 as compared with 1,617,616 for the ame month last year, There was a similar rise in the amount of traffic entering the small ports in the environs of Rotterdam, For. the period extending from January: to May the number of ships entering the port this year was 5,863 measuring 9,808488 tons as compared with figures for the the same period last year of 4,941 ships measuring 2,119,598 tons,
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