German Shipbuilding Industry

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332701400
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, Vol. 10 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, Vol. 10: A Journal of Shipbuilding, Marine Engineering, Docks, Harbours and Shipping; October 18, 1917 Imperial liability under the Bill amounts to about a great part of which will have to be paid out soon after the measure comes into force. Further, much, if not most, of this money will go abroad. Lost vessels are to be replaced either by purchase or by new constructions. Purchases will have to be mainly from abroad; new constructions will be both home and foreign. The attitude assumed in the Bill is that foreign vessels should be bought freely, save for general restrictions as to quality and price, since it is purely a question of increasing the German merchant fleet. Laas, however, thinks that some further restriction should be placed on foreign purchases and foreign orders, and that direct or indirect provision should be made to occupy German shipyards fully and to develop their capacity to a maximum. German mercantile yards have been inundated with Admiralty orders during the war. Mate rials and workmen are scarce and there will be a flood of repairs, overhauls and conversions to take precedence over new constructions after the war. On the other hand, foreign yards (particularly those in Scandinavia, Holland, North America and Japan) have been busy building cargo vessels during the war. They have acquired experience whilst making good profits, and they will be able to make quick and cheap deliveries after the war, thus competing severely with German yards. It is most important for Germany s economic revival that a large cargo tonnage be available as soon as possible after the war, but it is questionable whether temporary advantage in this respect should be purchased at the cost of permanent detriment to the German shipbuilding industry such as would be occasioned by Spending or so in foreign yards. This is quite apart from the effect of such expenditure in further depreciating the rate of exchange. Shipping and shipbuilding are most intimately interwoven in their prosperity and interests. Productive yards are no less essential than money to the reconstruction of German shipping, and Laas contends that statutory measures should be taken to ensure that German yards will be able to compete with foreign yards in the rapid production of cheap vessels directly after the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.