The growing importance of Italian trade in the Balkans is illustrated by the oficial statistics of the shipping and trade movement on the Danube. The figures just published by the Rumanian Air and Navy Department place the Italian flag at the head of the list with 81 steamers exporting 267245 tons of goods from Danubian ports in the first 9 months of the current year, followed by the Greek flag with 141850 tons, the Rumanian with 141201 tons, the British with 96371 tons and.the German with 40,258.
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