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Nationality. Year, 1359. Year, 1360.
DUTCH:
Pacific-Java-Silver Line .. 12 S. 3 S.
Norwegian Chartered
20 S.
U. S. A. (Panama):
Isthmian S. S. Coy. 14 S. 6 S.
Kerr S. S. Coy. Ltd. 2 S.

218 135
Tankships, various 102 116
Totals 320 251

NATIONALITIES OF TANKSHIPS.
Nationality. Year, 1359. Year, 1360.
Norwegian
49 54
Panama 35 48
Danish .. 5
Dutch ..
4 10
Italian .. 2
United States 2
Japanese 2
South Africa 1
British .. 1 4
Filipino.. 1
Totals 102 116
Of the above cargo steamers, one hundred and five called at Manamah, and thirty called at
Sitrah, while all the tankships called at Sitrah. The quantity of crude oil imported from Saudi-
Arabia during 1360 was 1,46,647 barrels, all of which is admitted free of duty.
The exports of Bahrein oil products during 1360 were:—
Drums. Tons.
Crude Oil .. 120 6
Gasoline 4.01.555
Diesel Oil 1.25.693
Fuel Oil 2.57.19°
Furnace Oil 100 5.920
Kerosene Oil 8,296 2.09,577
Lubricants .. 246
Totals 8,516 10,00,187
as compared with 9,76,059 tons in 1359.
The Optional System : There can be no doubt that this system, which was devised to encourage
importers to re-export goods lying in Customs’ charge by granting a refund of duty pre-paid, operated
here with considerable success and did much to assist commercial prosperity. After the institution
of the Food Control this option was vested in the Food Controller so that the permission to export
should become subject to the necessities of local conditions. As the calls of the cargo steamers from
India became more and more irregular, it became necessary to restrict such exports more and more so
as to conserve within the State stocks suitable to local needs. This restriction has hampered the
activities of local merchants by preventing them from exporting Japanese piece-goods, which are
irreplaceable, to other States where there is now a dearth ; and it is noticeable that recently a highly
pre table export trade had grown up as quite a new thing between Bahrein and Iraq, sometimes
vta Kuwait. Since these goods have to be replaced by imports from India which involves shipping

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