The Kiew shipyard Leninskaja Kusniza has just completed the construction of a new double-decker river steamer destined for freight and passenger traffic on the river Dnjepr between Kiew and Cherson.
AL present two further ships are being constructed in the same shipyard which are to be put into service in the summer season next year.—
Trans-Ocean.
Oregon and Washington lumber shipments to the Orient dropped off sharply for the first quarter of 1937 as compared with the first quarter of 1936, the Portland office of the West Coast Lumbermen's association reported recently.
Largely responsible for the decline was the maritime strike and the acute shortage of bottoms after the strike, Due To-day from Rotterdam.—ss, Ermlard Kobe—ss. Shanghai Maru Tientsin.—ss, Fausang, s. Yochow Tsingtao.—ss. Hai Li Hongay.—ss. Chengtu Hongkong—ss. Yunnan Canton—ss. An Sh!
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