SHIP-BUILDING
TONNAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. LESS THAN IN 1914. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ! LONDON, January 9. “Lloyd’s Register” reports that shipbuilding returns show that the merchant tonnage under construction on December 31st, 1922, was 315 vessels, aggregating 1,468,699 gross tonnage, including 348,000, on which work was suspended. Thus the total actually under construction was 1,120,000 tons, which is 770,000 tons below the average construction during the twelve months immediately preceding the war. The total tonnage under construction in other countries is 1,485,719, including 216,000 tons on which work is suspended'. The tonnage actually under construction in the world is 2,390,000, which is 1,057,000 tons below the Highest pre-war record—on' June 30th, 1913. The world’s launchings during the last quarter were 637,784 tons, of which 260,588 tons was in Britain and Ireland, and 96,375 tons in Germany and at Danzig.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11415, 11 January 1923, Page 5
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