The East Asiatic Co.'s fleet comprises 25 meterships of 179.687 gross register tons and 240.603 tons deadweight. The value of the fleet on January 1, 1938 totals Kroner 43.485.581,57, or Kroner 180.74 per ton deadweight, while the average age of the ships is 14 years, It will be recalled that the East Asiatic Co.'s founder and chairman His Excellency H. N. Anderson died on December 30, 1937, after having witnessed the growth to prominence in world trade of the company he established in 1897.
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