AGE OF THE WORLD'S SHIPPING.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1922, Page 14

AGE OF THE WORLD'S SHIPPING.

A very interesting table has been issued by Lloyd's showing that oofc of the 29,255 vessels of 100 ton* and above classified throughout the waMi, 8622 are less than five years old; 4165 are of five years andi under ten yearn; 3540 are of ten years and under fifteen yearn; 3750 are of fifteen and under twenty years; 2899 are of twenty and under twenty-five years; and 6379 are of twenty-five years and over. Attention is drawn to the large proportion of comparatively, new vessels owned m some countries, no doubt due to the large number of vessels built during and after the war. For instance of the seagoing vessels of the United .Kingdom about 23 per cent, are declared to have been built in the last five years. Similar percentagas for other countries are: United States of America, 63" percent. ; Japja, 40 per cent.; France and ■Holland, 33 1-3 per cent.; Germany, 3U per cent.; Belgium, 31 per cent.; Denmark, 30 per cent. It is of interest to find that of-the 76 largest vessels now owned in the world—those of 16,000 .'tons arid above—33 are five years old, 18 between five and ten years old, and the other 25 between ten and twenty-five years old. • .