SHIPBUILDING.
CONSIDERABLE ACTIVITY. BRITAIN STILL LEADS. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Wednesday, 10.5 a.in.) LONDON, Tuesday. The annual report of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping emphasises the large proportion of tanker tonnage built, and the continued demand for motor ships. During the twelve months to June 30th, 1930, plans for 601 vessels aggregating over two million tons, were approved, the highest number since the record year of 1920.
Britain, followed by Japan, is in the lead in.new constructions.
The total tonnage of merchantmen afloat at the end of June, 1930, amounted to 32,500,000', an increase of nearly a million compared with the previous highest total of June, 1929.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 October 1930, Page 5
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