MILLIONS OF LONG TONS US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - MARITIME ADMINISTRATION UNITED STATES OCEAN-BORNE IMPORT COMMERCE BY TYPE OF CARRIER, UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN FLAG SEPARATELY CALENDAR YEARS 1937-1938 AND 1948-1952 INCLUSIVE (Excludes Great Lakes cargo and U. S. Army and Navy cargo) Chart 22 MILLIONS OF LONG TONS ua DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - MARITIME ADMINISTRATION UNITED STATES OCEAN-BORNE EXPORT COMMERCE BY TYPE OF CARRIER, UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN FLAG SEPARATELY CALENDAR YEARS 1937-1938 AND 1948-1952 INCLUSIVE (Excludes Great Lakes cargo and US Army and Navy cerga) Chart 23 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE-MARITIME ADMINISTRATION SHIPBUILDING IN UNITED STATES SHIPYARDS SINCE WORLD WAR II Chart 24 us DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE-MARITIME ADMINISTRATION SHIPBUILDING BY TYPES AND REGIONS SINCE WORLD WAR II J Mr. CLARK. I should like, now, to turn to the ship-replacement program. Mr. DREWRY. "Program" or "problem"? Mr. CLARK. It is a program and it is a terrific problem. It is one with which the new Maritime Administration has been wrestling for 3 years. They have made several studies on the subject. It presents a problem with which I think every American ought to be concerned. As of April 30, 1953, the privately owned active oceangoing United States-flag merchant fleet consisted of 1,199 ships of 14.7 million tons. The Maritime Administration records show that, of the 14.7 million tons in the active privately owned fleet, 13.7 million tons will be 20 years old or older by 1965-7.3 million tons of freighters, 6.2 million tons of tankers, and 237,000 gross tons of combination ships. Attention is called to the fact that the Maritime Administration on April 30, 1953, had 230 additional ships in operation, all of which will be 20 years old or older by 1965. As the present aging, active commercial fleet is replaced with new tonnage, we may expect some improvement in the quality of the reserve-fleet ships by reason of traded-in tonnage. These two factors will go a long way toward fulfilling the initial needs for national defense. A summary of postwar shipbuilding, including scheduled future deliveries of ships under construction contract in the United States for American- and foreign-flag interests covering oceangoing merchant ships over 1,000 gross tons, is: The reason I lumped them together here is because I am talking, for the moment, of the shipbuilding we have. The chart which Mr. Stakem has just made available here, as I go along, may prove helpful. I will ask him to explain it in detail later. I would like to read into the record, now, the chronological report for the years beginning in 1946 through 1955. 1955, of course, is projected; 1954 is pretty well known at this moment, based upon contract knowledge. Senator POTTER. When you talk about foreign flags, these were ships that were built in American shipyards for a foreign flag? Mr. CLARK. That is correct. There is projected for 1955 two ships. These are reefer ships, I believe. Mr. STAKEM. I think they are. |