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APPENDIX EXHIBIT A. POTENTIAL COMMERCE, GULF-ATLANTIC SHIP CANAL,
 CALENDAR YEAR 1929

 Cargo tonnage
 Potential canal commerce at all Gulf ports (ton, 2,000 Cargo value
 pounds)

Imports-... ---....--..---. -................-- ..-------..--- 9, 726 $37,951, 88
Exports...............-------- ......----------------...---.--- 12463,645 70,282,284
 Total foreign.--......---.........-...........--...------------ 3,462,371 798,233,872
Coastwise receipts---.-.....-...-...--...--..--...........--......- .. 1, 539,78 97,018, 614
Coastwise shipments.................---- --- ...............------.. 30,172,355 724,136,520
 Total coastwse............--..--...------------- -.....----..-- 31,712, 333 821,155,134
 Total all cargoes................... .---------------------- 45,174,704 1, 619,388,906

 Foreign cargoes counted as potential tonnage of the canal are the imports from
 and exports to ports of Atlantic Canada, United Kingdom, North Atlantic and
 Baltic Europe, Havre-Hamburg range, South Atlantic Europe, and Mediter-
 ranean ports.
 Domestic cargoes counted as potential tonnage of the canal are cargoes received
 from or shipped to ports of the Atlantic United States from Jacksonville north.

 APPENDIX EXHIBIT B. SUMMARY OF VESSELS AND VOYAGES, BY NATIONAL
 REGISTEBR-POTENTIAL TRAFFIC, GULF-ATLANTIC SHIP CANAL, CALENDAR
 YEAR 1929

 Number Percent Ded-weight Average
 tonnage tonnage


 By vessels:
 American-....--.....---..---- ...--- .. 569 38 4,853,766 39 8,530
 Foreign..........- .............-- ...-- ---918 62 7,324,575 61 7,979
 Total........----....... --------. 1,487 100 12,178, 341 100 8,190
 By voyages (in and out of United States Oulf
 ports):
 American---~.----.....-- ...--------- 7,386 73 64, 913, 901 74 8,789
 Foreign...........--- ......----..----- 2, 672 27 22,706,493 26 8,498
 Total..----...--- ------............-- 10,058 100 87,708 394 100 8,716
 Additional voyages between Mexican and
 United States Atlantic ports:
 American-..........-- ---....................... 224 ......... 2,02 ....................
 Foreign...---.............................----... 5 ... 487,333 ...........
 Aggregate....------........ .------------ 10,341 -----.. 90,134,435 ----......

 On a percentage basis, 38 percent of the number of vessels were American
 registry, and this 38 percent made 73 percent of the number of voyages.
 On the percentage of tonnage basis, 39 percent of the vessels were of American
 registry, and this 39 percent provided 74 percent of the total tonnage for all
 voyages.
 American vessels averaged 13 voyages each per year; foreign vessels averaged
 less than 3 voyages each per year.