WORLD SHIPBUILDING.
INCREASED LAUNCHES. RECORD FIGURE FOR BRITAIN. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, February 5. New shipping tonnage throughout the world in 1936 totalled 1,302,080, and exceeded the total in the previous year by 34.6 per cent. On January 1 of the current year work in hand in British shipyards totalled 743,086 tons, which is the largest quarterly figure recorded for five years. The British total represented an increase on the previous year of 39,134 tons. As many new orders were placed in the latter part of 1935, there is every prospect that the British yards will be fairly busy throughout the .current year. Germany is now second, on the list to Britain in shipbuilding production, followed by Japan, Denmark and France.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 99, 7 February 1936, Page 6
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