MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16036, 29 January 1920, Page 2

MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING.

THE WORLD’S OUTPUT,

INTERESTING FIGURES,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, January 26.

Lloyd’s Register shows that the total output of the world’s merchant ship building during 1919 was 7,144,000 tons, an increase of 1,697,000 compared with 1918, and 3811,000 compared with 1913, which was the pre-war record year. The figures for the war period show the output of the Allied and neutral countries as follows; —1914, 2,852,000; 1915, 1,201,000; 1916, -1,688,000; 1917, 2,937,000; 1918. 5,447,000. The United States contributed 4,085,000 to the 1919 total of 7,144,000, and the United Kingdom 1,620,000, which is still 311,000 tons below the 1913 record. The total tonnage launched in the British Dominions was 359,000, which increased by 79,000 over 1918. The Japanese figures reached an easy record of 611,000, nearly equalling the entire output of Japan in 22 yeans from 1892 to 1913.