MORE MOTOR-SHIPS THAN STEAMERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 July 1927, Page 18

MORE MOTOR-SHIPS THAN STEAMERS

CONSTRUCTION FIGURES By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright Reed. 10.20 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday, A gradual improvement in tonnage construction throughout the world, and the progress of motorship building by leaps and bounds are the outstanding features recorded in Lloyd’s register. The latest shipbuilding returns show that in the three months ended June 30, there were 1,390,388 tons altogether under construction in Great Britain and Ireland, which was 173,456 tons more than at the end of March, and 549,000 above the figures of a year ago. The present total is the highest since September, 1924, although still half a million below- the average tonnage building a yc-ar before the w ar. The total building in other countries, 1,450,157 tons, shows an increase of 97,000 over the previous there months. The approximate figures for the leading foreign countries are: Germany, 408,000; Italy, 227,000; Holland, 172,000; United States, 147,000, and France, 136,000. For the first time the motor-ship construction throughout the world, namely 1,459,595 tons, exceeds that of steamers, although an analysis of the figures shows that In Great Britain and Ireland it is only 82.8 per cent, of the steam tonnage.-—A. and N.Z.