Fourteen New Ships to Be Ready by 1941
Dairen, Mar. 1.
The Dairen Kisen Kaisha is to build fourteen new ships of approximately 70000 toms in all by the ear 1941, its head office here states. The vessels will range in size from 2,000 to 9,000 tons, and will be used for coastwise traffic with Japan and China, with Dairen as the centre, The D.K.K. in the past was forced. io charter a large number of ships, principally British, but as these char+ ters are running out they are not being renewed. This is said to be partly owing to the difficulty of pave. ing for them in sterling under: the present exchange ccn'rol regulations, When these new boats are the D.K.K. fleet will number 67 ships of 250,000 tons aggregate.—Reuter.
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