POST-WAR FLEET
U.S. MERCHANT MARINE
NEW*YORK, September 2. American private shipping companies should set a post-war goal of between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 deadweight tons, thus keeping within a reasonable limit and making use of a fleet of modern, efficient vessels, said. Vice-Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission. He added: "The primary point in the American plans is the envisaged restoration and expansion of trade in co-operation with the other United Nations. I am, not ..suggesting we, monopolise the maritime services of the world. . "We shall probably have 50,000,000 deadweight tons at the end of the war, which should be a dynamic post-armis-tice asset- Our tonnage is at least 40 per cent, greater than that of :ariy other nation; in fact, it exceeds the fleets of the rest of the United Nations combined. "Reverse lend-lease services supplied and repairs for American ships in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, and India amounts to more than 80,000,000 dollars annually."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 3
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