WORLD SHIPBUILDING
BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN VAN 403 VESSELS UNDER CONSTRUCTION i (N.Z.P.A. Special* Correspondent.) (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 2. More merchant vessels were under construction in Great Britain and Ireland at the end of March than at any time since June. 1922, states ‘ Lloyd’s Register of Shipping.’ The figure was 1.576,103 tons. The present total of 403 vessels—62,293 tons higher than three months ago and 440,299 more than a year ago—compares with 1-580,-823 tons under construction abroad (excluding Danzig, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, and Russia, for which no figures are given), so that 51.5 per cent, of world construction of shipping is being done in Great Britain and Ireland. About 105,000 tons—only 6.2 per cent, of the, tonnage now being built in Britain—are intended for registration abroad or for sale. The leading countries abroad are the United States, 587,278 tons; Sweden, 205,015 tons; Italy. 156,190; Holland, 141,915 tons; Spain, 110,974 tons; Belgium, 104,940 tons; and Denmark, 103,905 tons. Of the tonnage building abroad, 248,694 tons (15.7 per cent.) is intended for registration elsewhere than in. the country of building, or for sale ,including 73,899 tons for Holland and 46,024 for Norway.
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Evening Star, Issue 25782, 3 May 1946, Page 5
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193WORLD SHIPBUILDING Evening Star, Issue 25782, 3 May 1946, Page 5
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