FEW SHIPS BEING BUILT.
LOWEST TOTAL FOR 40 YEARS, BRITAIN'S LION SHARtyt LONPON, July 11. While the world shipping toiui»|« under cqnptruction during t&e tfrFP* month# Jwe 90 wp th* lowest for 40 yews SFitMik *Mpbuilding figures ?hpw a pontinu*tion of the increase noted w wM» «*» quarter. j ' Wor|d tonnage undpr ponstFUg was 733,495 tons and Bptwh fwT»9°s* tons, the latter reprewntWg 0» increase of 85,101 tops compared WW the previous quarter. The tonnage under cgnstrucwn abroad was 444,883 top?, recorded since J3epemp§r, Jyoß, T}»f figures for the le&dipg cayßtrifs were: Franc? .. ®2,408 tp«« .. 82,»0 tenf Sweden ~ 78,2|2 ten* Germany .. 40,855 toni Twentyrtwo oil t*nk#r« HP® k* ing built, with a total to?fl3ttP of 160,464. Of these Great Briteto if building four and Sweden §§y§n. Ninety per cent, of the under construction .are i»otpFT«i|g«. The tankers comprise nearly "8 per cent, of the total world tannage under construction.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20906, 13 July 1933, Page 9
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