Now Is The Time To
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Buy Or Build
Jot since the early World :r II years has the ship rket been so much in buyers' our as it is at present. . general tightening of money the whole South Pacific area, s the fact that the war-time cay in shipping has now n made up, has resulted in more potential sellers than 'ers . hip brokers can now offer ir customers a bigger selec i of better ships at lower ',es than has been the case years, and there are few ) who will not offer terms to right kind of potential ter with the right kind of irity. eposits of as little as one d with the balance over two rs are known to have been zpted in recent months, i ship-building, too, the ypetition is keen Aus asian yards being challenged their own area by builders n as far away as Europe and Far East. ut shipping is an inter onal commodity, and what i buyers’ market today can i in sellers’ favour overnight, the time of the Suez crisis les shot up by about 30 per
