SHIPPING RETURNS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 April 1926, Page 9

SHIPPING RETURNS.

DECREASE IN BUILDING

DEM AND FOR, MOTORS 111 PS IN-

CREASING

BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT.

Received 1.5 p.m. to-day. LONDON, April 13. Lloyd’s shipbuilding returns for the quarter ended March 31, show that 843,000 tons were under construction in Great Britain and Ireland, a decrease of 42,000 .tons as compared with the quarter ended December 31, and 322,000 tons as compared with the corresiponding quarter last year. Work bad been suspended on 80,000 tons, as compared with 74,000 for the same quarter in 1925. The present totals are the lowest since September 1909, and are 1,047,000 tons below the average tonnage being built during the twelve months before the war. There were commenced during the quarter 193,000 tons, as compared with 160,000 tons during the fourth quarter of 1925, but the tonnage launched in the course of tne present quarter tons) is 25,000 below the previous, quarter. Tonnage under,construction in other countries amounts to 1,167,000, a decrease of 17,000 tons, as compared with the last quarter of 1925. The tonnage of motorships now being built throughout the world is 913,000, which is 84§ per cent of the steam tonnage. The tonnage of motorships being built in Great Britain and Ireland amounts to 52.7 per cent of thei steam tonnage being constructed, but the motor tonnage being constructed in Denmark, Holland, Italy, Japan, and Sweden greatly ex. ceeds the steam tonnage.—Reuter.