STEADY IMPROVEMENT
SHIPBUILDING RETURNS
CONDITIONS ON TYNE
(Biltlsb Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, October 18. Returns of shipbuilding of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for the quarter ended September 30 showed that the improvement in- the June quarter has been well maintained. The number of merchant vessels under construction in Great Britain and Ireland on September 30 was 87 of 303,762 tons, compared with 84 of 287,502 tons last year. > The shipping now being built exceeds the corresponding total at the end of June by 16,260 tons and that being built a year ago by 65,329 tons.
Conditions on the Tyne, where the unemployment , situation wag most acute, are continuing to show improvement. To date 70,000 tons more coal have been shipped from that area than in the corresponding period of last year, while the number of ships laid up there is 54 fewer than a year ago.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 96, 20 October 1933, Page 9
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