MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

———- ——— -• fAUSTRALIAN # N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] }VO#LD’S SHIEEJN.G. LPNDON, October 13. Lloyd’s aupua) report on the world’s shipping as ap tfe end of June shows 13J9 pew ships were classified during the year the tonnage totalling 4,253, 523, an increase of 452,302 over 1919, Of the total, 594 vessels of a tonnage pf 1,301,808 were built in United Kingdom. 430 ships of a tonnage of 1,930,7)05, were built in United’States and 105 ships of a tonnage of 571,129 were built in .Japan. The vessels under construptiqxi totalled 4,930,439 tons. Large vessels lost during the war have not yet been replaced. Hiere is a more urgent need for general cargo carriers, it being noted that in the number of large vessels, fifty-six under construction exceeding tea thousand tons, 426 ships aggregated 1,995,788 tons are to be fitted for burning oil fuel, compared with 211 ships of 1193, AO tons, a year ago. The total number of vessels now classed at Lloyds was as follows—British 5421, tonnage 12,885, 932, other countries 4166, tonnage 13,132,988. The figures in 1914 were British 6270: tonnage 13,782,899; other countries 4351 tonnage 10,087,765.