in aggregate dwt terms. They include civil supply of the dependent
territories, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland,
and the islands off the Scottish coast. Requirements have also been
established for coasters, tugs and light craft (mooring vessels,
light store and passenger-carrying vessels) in support of working
anchorages, for tankers to provide bunkering facilities at those
anchorages, and for vessels to operate temporary container discharge
facilities.
Sources of Shipping
9 The sources and machinery for providing the shipping to meet
the defence and civil needs described above are partly national,
partly NATO.
NATO Plans
10 During the Second World War UK access to the merchant shipping
controlled by our Allies was critical to the civil supply of the UK
and the Commonwealth. In the early post-war years the leading
for
western ship-owning countries agreed that the arrangements
co-operation that had been developed during the War should form a
continuing basis for defence planning for merchant shipping. This
led to the concept of a NATO pool of merchant shipping under the
control of a Defence Shipping Authority (DSA) from which ships would
be allocated in war in the overall interests of the Alliance.
principles underlying the operation of this pool are set out in the
annex.
The
UK Resources and Allocation
11 The United Kingdom would like other members of the Alliance