The type of work performed by the Shanghai Dock & Engineering Company is provably more varied than that performed by any other shipyard in the world. The fact that Shanghai is an international city and is governed as such accounts for the more than usual diversity of the national flags flown from the craft in the river. Any casual observer stroll ling along the waterfront may see the war vessels of at least six nations, ranging from motor launches to 10,- 000-ton cruisers, and express luxury liners rubbing shoulders with rusty old tramps and dilapidated rative craft. Over à period of almost eighty years it is natural to assume that most of these various types of craft which ply the busy Whangpoo must have made use of the docks of the hai's industrial and shipping world and when one stops to consider the difficulties which those early engineering pioneers were up against, the record of the Shanghai Dock Engineering Company stands as a monument to British energy and ingenuity; company.
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