STATE CONTROL OF BRITISH PORTS
LIVERPOOL SHIPOWNERS GIVE WARNING (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. A warning that the operation of the 1947 Transport Act might in- due course be extended so that all port facilities in Britain would come under State control was given in the annual report ..'of the Liverpool Steamship Owners’ Association. f
The report expressed the opinion that the nationalisation of port facilities would destroy healthy competition between British ports and. decrease the general level of efficiency. Dealing with the rising cost of building new ships, the report stated that tramp tonnage now cost more than two and a half times as much as before the war, and that the increase in 1 the cost of new liner tonnage was even more markqd. It repeated previous Avarnings that these rising costs and 'high taxation will, if maintained, destroy the competitive poAver of British shipping.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 128, 15 March 1950, Page 3
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