WORLD’S SHIPPING.
ESTIMATED TONNAGE. BY CABLE—association— copyright, (Received July 8, 12.15 p.m.) "LONDON, July 7. Lloyd’s Register shows that the world’s shipping represented 64,641.000 tons, as compared with 64,023,000 tons in June last year, and 42,514,000 tons in 1914. Britain’s shares were 19,304,000 tons this year, as against 18,954,000 tons last year. United States tonnage decreased by 579,000 tons. The world’s sailing tonnage has fallen from 1,718.000 tons since before the war to 1,611,000 tons, of which 659,000 tons are owned _by the United States. British Dominions’ steel and iron tonnage is 2,993.000 tons, an increase of 283,000 tons. Germany has 2.993,000 tons, a decrease of 2,105,000 tons. The United States has 11,605.000 tons, an increase of 9,768,000 tons. Holland has 2,585,000 tons, an increase of 1,114,000 tons; Japan, 3,741,000 tons, an increase of 2,099,000 tons. All the increases are since 1914. Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 July 1925, Page 11
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