JAPANESE COMPETITION

Chronicle (Levin), 16 September 1949, Page 5

JAPANESE COMPETITION

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Orders Sought From British Ship Owners

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Received Friday, 10.15' &.rb.LONDON,. Sept. 15, Jap'anese shipping flrms .wer-e Soliciting orders from British ship owners "at prices weii below thosb which oiir o'wn shipb'uildefs cah ofler," Mr. M, OV Kendall, jo'iht assistant general rhanager and statis-. fcician of the Chamber of- Shipping of the United Kingdom, • told the international sttmiiier school of the Institute of BaKikers in Oxford today. S'ormer :enemy countries,- particularly Germany and Japan, had iiitherto been restricted from building ' ocean-going toh^age. Now, however, Germany had beeh given pefrfiission to build deep sea vesSels up to- 7200 gross registered tons, and the building of merchanf , ships in Japan was actively encouraged by the -oecupying Power. There , could be little doubt. that before long pressure would begin to be felt from Germany and Japan for the restoration of their na- ; tional fleets to sdmeth'ing like their : preWar level, Mr. Kendall said. If the carriage .of goods by sea was ieft to find its way under ordinary economic f orces to those countries which could undertake it most 1 cheaply and efflCiently, the British mercantile marine could hold its own. ...