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elderly ships.

Decline in dry bulk carrier and combined carrier

markets, where new ordering is high, would only be arrested by recovery

of industrial production. Meanwhile, special factors such as USSR's

grain requirements could help.

15 July 1981

Hong Kong and General Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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