High Coal Price is Idling British Ships
(Rec. 10.5) LONDON, Aug. 18. For the first time since the early thirties, British ships are now being laid up for the lack of profitable employment. The Financial Times "ays: The trouble so far is confined to medium-sized coal burning ships, which are not able t,o extract profit from their freights at the present inflated prices of bunker coal, which is four pounds sterling a ton, as compared with ‘one pound sterling before the war.
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Grey River Argus, 19 August 1949, Page 8
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