SHIPPING: Busy

During the first half of 1944 U.S. ship sailings averaged 1,400 a month, carried 27 million tons of dry cargo and 9.3 million tons of petroleum products. This meant that U.S. ship operators, acting as agents for the War Shipping Administration, handled an average of one outbound sailing every 30 minutes.

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