RAPID EXPANSION
AMERICAN MERCHANT FLEET LIKELY TO EXCEED THAT OF BRITAIN. BEFORE END OF THIS YEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 31. For the first time in history the United States merchant fleet is expected to exceed Britain’s before the end of this year, when the vast American shipbuilding will overtake that of Britain. The Combined Shipping Adjustment Board, which has issued a report disclosing this, does not give the respective tonnages, but says that America’s new construction will be 18,890,000 tons in 1943. A survey by the board says that shipping space is still the most precious war commodity. Co-ordinated operation of the Allied fleets has made possible wartime achievements which would be impossible under separate action. The new shipping construction now exceeds the tonnage sunk, and though the submarine menace continues to be very serious the United Nations are slowly and surely building up their advantage on the seas.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1943, Page 3
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