PhilipF
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When the news story was running about the three Yachters drowned due to a suspected heavy shipping knocking out their boat. The "Times" ran a side item regarding a said increase in the number of vessels running up and down the English Channel - said to have doubled over the past ten years.
Can this be right? I had the impression that over the past five decades or so the amount of commercial shipping using the high seas had dramatically reduced: Almost no Coasters nowadays - and just think of how many once great Shipping Lines has closed down in this period.
Whats the general view of those who know about these things?
Philip.
Can this be right? I had the impression that over the past five decades or so the amount of commercial shipping using the high seas had dramatically reduced: Almost no Coasters nowadays - and just think of how many once great Shipping Lines has closed down in this period.
Whats the general view of those who know about these things?
Philip.