TRANSPORT NEEDS
PETROL & CARS FROM U.S.A. Rec. 10 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 29. Japan desires to import 2,000,000 tons of petrol annually from the United States and also as many cars as possible to revive her domestic transport system, according to the Minister of Transport, Mr. Kohiyama. The Government is requisitioning vehicles for the occupation authorities, who require 400 cars, 700 trucks, and 100 buses.
The American air raids reduced the annual capacity of Japan's railways from 150,000,000 metric tons to 60,000,----000 metric tons, the Minister said. The railways had 3891 locomotives available, compared with 6030 before the war, also 92,774 freight cars, compared with 117,598. Tracks were severely damaged. The merchant marine was reduced from 6,380,000 tons before the war to 1,200,000 tons, of which only 200,000 were at present fit for sea. The merchant marine lost 31,000 seamen during the war, and 85,000 others were involved in shipwrecks.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 7
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