SHIPPING.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1916, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF NEW (PLYMOUTH.; TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1910. PHASES OF THE MOON. APRIL. 18—Full moon, 4.44 p.m. 25—Last quarter, 10.15 a.m. THE TIDES, High -water to-day at 9.37 a.m. anil 9.54 p.m,; to-morrow, 10.11 a.m. and 10.38 p.m, ■ THE SUN. The sun rises to-day at 0.34 a.m. and sets at 5.20 p.m.;- to-morrow, at 6.30 a.m. and 5.24 p.m. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Rarawa, from North, to-day. Karu, from South, Wednesday. Rarawa, from North, Thursday. SAILED. ' April 17,—Waimea, s.s., for Nelson. TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVED, Wellington, April 17.—At 11 a.m., Manuka, from Sydney. THE KARU DELAYER The New Plymouth office of. the Union Company has received a wire from Wellington stating that, owing to rain on Saturday, the Karu now sails for New Plymouth at noon to-day. LLOYD'S REGISTER OF SHIPPING, The annual report of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for the year 1014-15 contains some interesting reading. In reviewing the operations of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for the year, the committee are pleased o record that, despite the losses incurred by the mercantile marine through the war, the tonnage of vessels which were classed in Lloyd's Register Book at the close of the year ended June 30, 1915, was 300,000 tons in excess of the tonnage classed at the corresponding date in 1914. Merchant shipping- in the United Kingdom has necessarily fallen off owing to the great demands upon the shipbuilding resources of the country for the production of war vessels of various kinds. Construction has been greatly delayed, and in some cases entirely stopped. This lias been so, not only in .the United -Kingdom, but in all the belligerent countries. The dislocation of shipbuilding in those countries has naturally given an impetus to the industry elsewhere. Thus we find greatly increased activity in shipbuilding in (lie United States of America, in Japan, in the Scandinavian countries, and in Holland. The increase is most marked in America, where there are at present under construction and on order, for classilcation with Lloyd's Register, the largest amount of tonnage upon record for that country. The vessels actually completed and classed in Lloyd's Register during the year ended June, 1915, numbered 571, of 1,295,023 tons, of which s.'i(i were steamers, or motor ves;e!s, of a tonnage of 1,280,827, and 35 were sailing vessels, of 5790 tons. Of the total, 804,247 tons, or about 07 per 'cnt., w-'re built foi the British Empire (United Kingdom 844,184 tons, eolotiies '0,003 tons), and 431,370 tons, or about 33 per cent., for other countries.