BRITISH SHIPPING
DECLINE ON PRE-WAR FIGURES LONDON, Mar. 24. Statistics prepared by Lloyd’s Register of Shipping covering total world shipping registrations show that the United Kingdom has 768.000 tons less shipping than in 1939, when the last world survey was published. On the other hand, if vessels under charter to British owners are included, 133,000 tons more shipping is now under the British flag than before the war. The survey shows that coal is now used as fuel by only 22 per cent, of the world’s shipping, compared with 44 per cent, in 1939. Fifty-five per cent, of all the world’s ships are now oil burners.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 10
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