NEW SHIPS
UNITED STATES BUILDING PROGRAMME AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. TWELVE MILLION TONS BY END OF 1943. ißv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, September 3. America’s merchant shipbuilding programme is ahead of schedule, according to the chairman of the Maritime Commission, Admiral Land. He predicted that 1153 new ships of approximately 12,000,000 tons will have been placed in operation between July 1, 1941, and the end of 1943. This year 132 new ships will be completed on the basis of current reports from, the shipyards. If there are no stoppages for any cause, 90 ships totalling 1,000,000 tons will be delivered in the first quarter of 1942, 146 in the second quarter, 154 in the third quarter, and 184 in the final quarter. In the first quarter of 1943 more shipping will be delivered than was produced in the United States in the whole of 1918, when 1,830.000 tons was launched. Admiral Land said that about 700,000 tons of shipping was added when the 21 American Republics agreed recently to take over the tied-up Axis ships.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1941, Page 5
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