STILL SHORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 87, 13 April 1927, Page 7

STILL SHORT.

WORLD'S SHIPPING. Building Tonnage Shows Increase. 1914 STANDARD NOT REACHED, t (Dv Cable.—Copyright.—Press Association.) t Received lO a.m.) LONDON, April 12. Llo\d s register of shipbuilding returns for the quarter ended March .11 shows that the tonnage under con- ' struction in Britain ami Ireland at that date was L21G,000. an increase of 4)(),00'i tons compared "with December 31. The tonnage on which work was suspended nt March .'ll was only 20.000. compared with 00.000 on December 31. The present totals are the highest recorded sineo December. 1021. but tliev are still Gi.1.000 tons below the average of the tonnage being built in tho 12 months before the war. The tonnage commenced in the past! fpiaiter was ,">7'.).(ioti, compared with' 1 .*.2.01 Ml in the toiiith quarter of I!l2<>. I The tonnage launched was 127.(100, an] increase of 'Oil compared with the! previous quarter. 'file total merchant tonnage being) built ill other countries at March .'ll was' 1 ~".>2.000. ail increase of 1 **0,000, compared with December 31. The tonnage commenced abroad was 3ti7.000, and ltil.OOO tons had been launched, an increase of !C> Hot) ions and a decrease of IS 1.000 tons respectively compared with the previous quarter. The total world tonnage being constructed at March .'II increased by <">37.()1H» compared with the previous quarter, but was still OTO.OOO toils below tho highest pre-war record. The tonnage of motor-ships being built throughout the world at March .'SI was 1.172.000 and of steamships being built 1.370.000 tolls.