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Appendix E
Pages 173-175

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... trading fleet. For government-owned vessels there was an increase in age of 0.38 year, but this was more than offset by the decrease of 1.02 years in the age of the numerous independent fleet and 0.99 year in the small oil company fleet.
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... Independents show a split tendency, with old and young ships predominating in large sizes but few in the middle age bands, and a broad balance in the smaller sizes (see Table Ebb.
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