GERMAN LINERS
BUILDING PROGRAMME.
A NAZI TOURING SHIP. tTtmes Air Mail Ferricev. LONDON, April 6. The HamburyAmerika line fillapagt. which with the North German Lloyd of Bremen is the greatest German shipping concern, announces 3 new building programme. This follows frequent statements in shipping: circles that the time has come for an extensive renovation of the German mercan—tile marine, says the Berlin correspondfl ent of the Daily Telegraph. Hamburg has received a contract in‘ build a 13,000 ton twin-screw motor—ship to carry pasengers and freight on the Hapag service in tho \Vest Coast of South Amerirn. There \\'ili‘ he first and tourist t'ltiss {H‘Cflmmm’lih tion for 150 passengers. The heneilrinl results of the Gor—mnn trade agreement with Chile have, It is stated. made it noresary to strengthen this service. The new liner is to be ready ivy the end or m‘xt year. 1 Hamburg is also to construct. '0!“ the items a HOD—ton millfll‘~Ship for carrying freight to Australia and the; Dutch East indies. This ship will} have a speed of H knots and \\'ill bel delivered in November. 10-Venr-Old Vessels. ’l'he Hamburg-Amerilm line, is fur—ther supervising the construction by the Howaidt yard at Hamburg of a 25.000—t0n touring steamer for the Nazi organisation, “Strength through Joy." This will have room for 1500' passengers, and is to he launched at] the end of this month. |
It is pointed out. that 67 pm‘ (‘Pnt of the Gernmu men-antilo marine has now been In Sorvi‘x'n fnr over 10 years, as compared with 3.x pnr rent in 191 ’|. Only 0.7 [l9l' com is less than one year old, wherr‘as this figure was 3.5 per cent when the war broke out.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19882, 11 May 1936, Page 9
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