SHIPPING OF WORLD.
building in progress. advance of motor craft. Australian Presa Association —United Service. LONDON, Jaa. 15. Lloyd's register cf the ships being constructed at the end of December in the British Isles shows an increase of 155,000 tens compared with September. The present total is 1.242,000, or 336,000 less than at the end of 1927. The average tonnage being constructed for the siS-year period 1923-28 only amounts to 1.220,000 tons compared with mn average of 2,000.000 in I9Lx
About 125,000 of the tonnage now in hand in Britain is intended for the British Dominions. The tonnage being constructed abroad is 1.575,000. or 56,000 les3 than in September, but it exceeds bv 132.000 the tonnage beinjj built in the British Isles.
Four countries abroad hare more than 10G.G0G teas under construction Germany has 582,000, Holland 132,000, France " 161.000, Japan 118,000. The total being constructed in tha world is 2.613.0C0. which per cent, is in the British Isles, compared with the prewar percentage of 57. A reduction is again shown in tanker tonnaga under construction. Compared •with 1927 the tonnage of motor-ships under construction in the British Isles is still less tfian the tonnage of the steamers. The rfiotor-ship tonnage under construction abroad is SSS.QQO, compared with 506.900 of steamers- The world figures show that motor-ships being constructed eiceed by 184.000 tons a similar total of steam tonnage.
AMERICAN LINES. /; TENDERS FOR VESSELS. ELEVEN OFFERED FOR SALE. Australia* and K-Z. Press Association. <H?ceived January IS. 5.53 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Tno United Suites Shipping Board to"day opened and considered tenders for its 11 Government -owned bners, inclad.njj the Leviathan. The highest tender was from » Chicago linking firm, namely, £*;,2(X!.000 tor all the vessels. The lowest tvas £1,200,000 from the International Mercantile Uarise. ' It is estimated that the cost of replacement of these vessels -would be £25,400,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20156, 17 January 1929, Page 11
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