THE Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1920. THE SHIPPING PROBLEM.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5884, 12 April 1920, Page 2

THE Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1920. THE SHIPPING PROBLEM.

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English papers by tho hist mail show that tremendous activity is taking place in ship building operations throughout. th[3 world. The annual sumimu'y of the mercantile, shipbuilding of the world during 1919, issued by Lloyd's Register, allows that the total output of the wbrkl was 7,114,5-19 tons gross, or an Increase of 3,811,000 tons on the output ror 1913, which was the largest ever recorded. This record increase is* one ol the most important features of the work of reco'iistr'iictioii., but it is submitted that there is still a deal of leeway to be made up, and moreover, a good proportion of this tonnage is probably not yet actually iu commission. A n,ew "record iin regard to the world's toniuagc launched was set up in J.9OJ. with a total of 2.617,539 tons gross, another in 1906 with 2'.919,76.'i tons gross, and a third in 1913 with 3.332,882 tons gross. In subsequent years there was a I recovery, and since the increase shown

on a I'luu'f; is almost a perpendicular Tine, hi 1918 tlw total was 5,4-17.444 (tons gross, or 1.,fi97.100 leas than last jycar. Hampered by the lack of raiv materi.a.!s, the demands »\ the It oval Navy until the end of 1013, and labour disputes, British shipbuilding has not (increased in the sitme high ratio as that of other countries. In 1913, British output w'as just under 2,000,000 'ions gross, whorwi.-. la,st year it wis 311,7000 'tons loss at 1,620,4-lu unis. which is .'also 11 per cent, below the average mi i'the three pre-war years. However, ihe J total is higher than during the Wir 'period, which i's something to the good. I It is worthy of note tliiw, not a singh' j sailing vessel was launeed from a British yard, but from other yards Jn various parts of the world 317 sailing vessels and barges of 320,395 to-a* were completed, while from t-lio same yards 1.571 mcrclia.nt vessels of ij.024.107 tons were

launched. These figures reveal an advance of 1,424,783 tons as compared with 1918, and are 4,124,000 tons, or >!294 per cent, above those of 1913. The : bulk oi' the increase abroad stal.uls to jtho credit of the United Stairs, whose rose 1.042.000 'ions to I 4.070,35-j tons, equal to 57 per cent, of jtho world's output, and nearly 74 per [cent, of the total production, outside it'he United Kingdom. These figures conjstitute a new high record for the United States-. Japan conies second with an j Aggregate oil' Gi1,883 tons of steel steam- [ This advance is striking. It is ■ nearly o<|iial to the whole output ef J.ipan for th;- 22 years from 1892 to 1913, alad accounts for 42 per cent, o' the tonnage launched abroad 1 , ;cxcludu>! the U.S. Canada launched -271,20-]

tons iind the. Uri'tiyli Dominions together eenstrueied :!-j8.728 Mis. WliiJo ;i lonrr ■way above any figure hitherio I't'ionkd at the moment, there is ;i falling o!f in ship <-/)| isliiut.ioii owinji. no doubt, v> thcliijrji cost, anil Che delay in obtaining delivery, bill, with the settlement of •the moulders' strike in England the position In tiho yards and shops should ,jm'.proviC'. 'a>nd the output of Bri't'sh shipping increase. I