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BRITISH BUILDING BIGGEST SINCE 1922 HALF WORLD TOTAL LITTLE FOR ABROAD (Special Correspondent.) (11 a.m.) LONDON. May 2. More merchant vessels were under construction in Great Britain and Ireland at the end of March than at anytime since June. 1922, states Lloyds Register of Shipping. The figure was 1,676,103 tons. The present total of 403 vessels —63,293 tons higher than three months ago and 440,299 tons 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 —is 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 tons; Holland. 141.915 tons: Spain. 110.974 tons; Belgium, 104,940 tons; Denmark, 103,905 tons.
Of the tonnage building abroad 248.694, 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 tons for Norway'.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22011, 3 May 1946, Page 3
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