World Now Building Fewer Ships
(United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 1.5 p.m. LONDON , Tues. A reduction of 113,000 tons of shipping at present under construction, compared with three months ago,
is recorded by Lloyds shipbuilding returns. * The returns also show a reduction of 500,000 tons as compared
with the three months ended September 30 last year. The north-east coast of En gland suffered a decrease of -j 7 per cent., and the Clyde 28 percent. The world’s tonnage building amounts to 2.521,000 tons, of which ■W per cent, is building in Great Britain.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 487, 17 October 1928, Page 1
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