MANY NEW SHIPS
SOUTH AFRICA'S NEEDS SEQUEL TO TRADE PROSPERITY [from our own correspondent] CAPETOWN, Deo. 13 The increasing commercial imports ance of South Africa is emphasised by the fact that more ships are being built for the South African trade at present than for any other individual shipping route in the world. Of the tonnage under construction in British yards about a third is for trade with South Africa and the present programme represents about a fifth of the entire world output in hand to-day. Never has the Union loomed so large in the eyes of shipbuilders, and the work in hand is additional to the scoros of vessels that have been taken off the Mediterranean and put on the Cape run in consequence of the Italo-Abyssinian war. Since the beginning of 1934 new ships totalling 250,000 tons have been ordered specially for the South African service, and plans are afoot for another 100,000 tons, according to the latest indications, hanging in sfze from the 25,000-ton Stirling Castle type UnionCastle liners to 300-ton trawlers, the new South African fleet is to include some of the most up-to-date craft afloat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22315, 13 January 1936, Page 12
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190MANY NEW SHIPS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22315, 13 January 1936, Page 12
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