SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY
ACTIVITY IN BRITAIN (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Feb. 3. (Received Feb. 4, at 5.5 p.m.) Lloyd’s Register of Shipping states that the tonnage laid down during 1936 exceeded by 622,000 tons that launched during the year, and there was therefore good reason to expect that the renewed activity in shipbuilding will be maintained in the immediate future. The total tonnage being built rose during the course of last year from 1.543,153 to 2,251,221 at December 31. The tonnage launched last year throughout the world was 2,117,924 gross. Of this, British yards put afloat 856,257 tons, or 40.4 per cent, of the aggregate. The world tonnage launched in 1936 showed a 62.7 per cent, increase on the output for 1935.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23107, 5 February 1937, Page 9
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