The
British consul general at Kobe, Japan reported that the building costs for ships
in Japan
amounted around ƒ 312,50 a
ton for freighters and ƒ 375 for tankers. This was an large increase while not
far ago the building costs were ƒ 250
a ton. The strongly increased demand caused this high
price with as result that in contrary to the past Japanese shipyards hardly
could compete with the USA.
Shortly after the armistice of the First World War were the costs in the USA
for freighters and tankers ƒ 272,50 and ƒ 345 a ton and nowadays even cheaper.
