WORLD'S SHIPPING

Evening Star, Issue 17483, 14 October 1920, Page 7

WORLD'S SHIPPING

WAIULOSSES NOT YET REPLACED.

DEMAND FOR CARGO CARRIERS,

Pr«iß Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. * LONDON, October 13. (Received October 14, at 9.50 a.m.) Llovd’s annual report on the world’s shipping as at the end of June shows that 1,319 new ships were classified during the year, the tonnage totalling 4.255,625, an increase of 452,302 tons over the 1919 total. Of the past year’s total 594 vessels, of a tonnage of 1,391,808, were built in the United Kingdom; 480 ships, with a tonnage of 1,930,705, were built in the United States ; and 105 ships, with a tonnage of 571,129, were built in Japan. The vessels under construction totalled 4,950,430 tons. The large vessels lost during the war have not yet been replaced. There was a more urgent demand for general cargo-carriers, a striking increase being noted in the number of large vessels, the 56 under construction exceeding 10,000 tons each

The report also notes that 426 ships, aggregating 1,995,788 tons, were fitted for burning oil fuel, compared with 211 ships of 1,193,650 tons a year ago. The total number of vsesels now classed at Lloyd’s are as follow British 6,421, tonnage 11,885,932 : other countries 4.166, tonnage 15,152,883. The figures in 1914 were: British 6,270, tonnage 13.782,899; other countries 4,351. tonnage 13.087,765. —A. and N.Z. Cable.'