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I do like a good statistic...

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2025, 9:12 pm

-This one is specially made for those who don't quite realise just how much the world has changed:

"...in 2024 alone a single Chinese firm, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), built more more commercial ships by tonnage than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry has built since the end of World War II."

HT/

https://nitter.net/RnaudBertrand/status/1900030432424657299#m

Do they call them Liberty Ships? ;O)....nm

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2025, 9:59 pm, in reply to "I do like a good statistic..."

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Re: Do they call them Liberty Ships? ;O)....

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on March 13, 2025, 11:32 pm, in reply to "Do they call them Liberty Ships? ;O)....nm"

...yeah, hope they don't get "mistaken" for Egyptian ships!

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