IDLE SHIPPING.
MANY VESSELS LAID UP, LONDON. March 27. There are now over 2,000,000 tons of shipping, British and foreign, lying idle in the 36 principal ports ot the. United Kingdom, of whit It 1,000,000 tons are British. Altogether 2.250,000 tons of British shipping are unemployed out at a total ot 18,000.000
The position of American shipping is worse. !‘'ive million tons ot State-owned American shipping' out ol a total ol 12,500.000 urns ace idle in addition to a limn' amount of privately-owned tonnage. -Ri tier.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 358, 28 March 1922, Page 5
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86IDLE SHIPPING. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 358, 28 March 1922, Page 5
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