New contract signed for supplying ships in the French national fleet at Port Said February. Announcement of a competitive tender for Bremen and Hamburg. Plans for establishment in Madagascar. Deliveries of coal to Pondicherry April.
Plans to open an agency in Bayonne. Permission given for all ships equipped with lights to transit through the Suez Canal at night 1 March. Exclusive agreement with L. Plans to set up bunkering stations in Montevideo and La Plata. Death of Adolf Deppe, whose company had represented the Worms shipping line and commissioned its vessels since April.
Deliveries to the Sultan and to Portuguese warships in Zanzibar August. Renewal of the contract with the Nixon colliery: 25, tonnes for the Messageries, 15, tonnes for A. Grandchamp Fils and , tonnes for Worms itself, which thus had a monopoly for the sale of this coal in Marseilles September-November. Bordeaux-Newport service with the "Marie". Bergen , David Bruce London , W. Zader Hamburg , etc.
Contract for 95, tonnes of coal for the Messageries Maritimes November. However, head office decided to charter British steamers to organise a regular Bordeaux-Antwerp service. Mention of a shipping services agency in Paris — in other words the Parisian office of the Le Havre branch specialising in freight May. Plans to set up a depot in Piraeus was abandoned.
Addition of the coal depot of the Cochin-China to Saigon River shipping company to the list of ports for which the company would submit tenders. Meeting with the three main merchants in Port Said in a bid to reach an agreement "to stop the ruinous competition over prices" September.
