More Shipping Orders
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) GLASGOW. Dec. 25. Orders worth more than £l3O million have been placed with Clydeside shipyards for the co nixing year, ite was announced today. The new contracts are for 85 ships—26 of them tankers—of more than 500.000 gross tons. Tankers predominate in the order lists and two of the biggest shipyards are planning to reconstruct berths to build tankers of up to 60.000 tons. During 1956, output from the Clyde’s 23 main shipyards dropped to its second lowest level since 1948. according to figures issued by the shipyard managements. The total tonnage of the 78 ships launched in 1956 was 419.720 tons. Ninety-one ships of 486.827 tons were launched the year before. The drop in 1956 was largely attributed to strikes which accounted for the biggest loss in shipbuilding on the Clyde since the war, the management said.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28161, 27 December 1956, Page 13
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