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SHIPPING STATISTICS - Introduction
Aden owed its importance to being well placed on the sea
route from Suez to Australia, India and elsewhere in the
Far East. Apart from trade and eventually being
designated a Free Port, it was its location as a coaling
station that allowed the port to develop in the second
half of the 19th Century. After the 1st
World War, its proximity to the oilfields in the Persian
Gulf meant it was also in a position to be well located
for offering oil bunkering facilities. In this Section
will appear a variety of articles, largely based on
statistics, to do with shipping up to the 2nd
World War.
Foreign shipping calling
at Aden.
The development of oil
bunkering facilities at Aden
Coaling
Dredging of Aden Harbour |
