[DOC] [TLE] The General Shipping Situation - jstor [PAR] On September 1, 1939, world tonnage, including tankers, amounted to. 56.8 
million ... very large number of enemy vessels destroyed), the shipbuilding efforts 
in ... fleets; other countries, including Germany and Japan, are estimated to have 
... given in gross register tons and cover every class of ship (United States ships. [DOC] [TLE] HMHS Britannic - Wikipedia [PAR] HMHS Britannic was the third of the White Star Line's Olympic class of vessels. 
She was the ... Britannic was the largest ship lost in the First World War. ... 
Although the White Star Line and the Harland and Wolff shipyard always denied 
it, ... the name 'Gigantic' being used or proposed for the third of the Olympic class 
vessels". [DOC] [TLE] History of the United States Merchant Marine - Wikipedia [PAR] The maritime history of the United States is a broad theme within the history of the 
United States ... By the 1760s New England was the center of a flourishing 
shipbuilding ..... Of the world's total whaling fleet in 1842, it was estimated that of 
882 ships 652 ... Already by 1853 one-fourth of the tonnage built in Great Britain 
were... [DOC] [TLE] The decline of the UK shipbuilding industry was not inevitable | Dan ... [PAR] Nov 6, 2013 ... The boom lasted well beyond the second world war. According to consultancy 
IHS, 134 vessels  1.47m gross tonnes of ... Even Royal Navy tankers are being 
built in the vast shipyards of South Korea now. ... So how you survived in higher-
cost countries was more sophisticated ships like cruise ships. [DOC] [TLE] China Nuclear Power | Chinese Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear ... [PAR] The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency said that 2015 gross nuclear generation was 
169 TWh, ... problem  nearly half the country's rail capacity is used in 
transporting coal. ..... The first four AP1000 reactors are being built at Sanmen 
and Haiyang, .... China Nuclear Engineering Group being responsible for plant 
construction. [DOC] [TLE] Nuclear Power in Canada - World Nuclear Association [PAR] Total generating capacity in 2014 was 137 GWe, more than half of this being 
hydro. ... Today, there are 31 Candu power reactors in seven countries, as well 
as 13 'Candu derivative' reactors in India, with more being built. ..... Two fuel 
fabrication plants in Ontario process some 1,900 tonnes of uranium per year to 
UO2 fuel... [DOC] [TLE] Download - SNAME [PAR] led the shipbuilding world in the construction of wooden ships. In the New World, 
... output of metal steam ships of only 29,274 gross tons, while. Great Britain... [DOC] [TLE] SPECIAL REPORT: Cleaning up shipbreaking the world's most ... [PAR] Dec 15, 2015 ... The world's ships are built at sophisticated yards in the developed world. ... At the 
ship graveyards in those three countries, workers first strip the vessels of ... 
Around 1,000 ships over 100 grosstonnage are broken each year .... At the 
IndustriALL World Conference on Shipbuilding-Shipbreaking, November... [DOC] [TLE] China's Merchant Marine - CNA [PAR] Jul 29, 2015 ... At the end of 2014, the world's merchant ship fleet consisted of over 89,000 ... 
That country has jurisdiction over the vessel and is responsible for ... number of 
merchant marine ships (of 1,000 gross register tonnage or ... and constant 
changes in information as fleets add newly built .... The point being that. [DOC] [TLE] Differences Between Military and Commercial Shipbuilding - RAND ... [PAR] World Commercial Shipbuilding Fell During the 1980s, ..... detailed projections of 
shipbuilding by country and ship type;1 a sur- .... gross registered tonnage/tons 
.... The numbers and total displacement tonnage of military ships built .... 2.5, 
naval ships comprise nearly 84 percent of tonnage being con- ..... Island Princess
. [DOC] [TLE] Naval Warfare | International Encyclopedia of the First World War ... [PAR] Mar 9, 2016 ... All of the great belligerent states of World War I were naval powers and ... 
Defenses stationed at the outpost of Heligoland Island protected the latter two 
ports ..... The British also hunted down during 1914 and the first half of 1915 the 
few ....

Question: Responsible for about ½ of gross tonnage being built, this island country leads world in shipbuilding
Answer: Japan