Sestri, Italy. Photo shows the idle shipyards of the Ansaldo San Giorgio shipbuilding company at Sestri, near Genoa; Scope and content: Sestri, Italy. Photo shows the idle shipyards of the Ansaldo San Giorgio shipbuilding company at Sestri, near Genoa. Thirty-three 4-ton cranes on the 3 slipways in this modern and efficient shipyard lay idle for lack of orders. Maximum producition is between 70,000 and 100,000 tons per year. The one merchant ship recently launched and now being fitted is a 25,000 ton passenger boat which, when finished in 1952, will ply between Genoa and New York. The number
Sestri, Italy. Photo shows the idle shipyards of the Ansaldo San Giorgio shipbuilding company at Sestri, near Genoa; Scope and content: Sestri, Italy. Photo shows the idle shipyards of the Ansaldo San Giorgio shipbuilding company at Sestri, near Genoa. Thirty-three 4-ton cranes on the 3 slipways in this modern and efficient shipyard lay idle for lack of orders. Maximum producition is between 70,000 and 100,000 tons per year. The one merchant ship recently launched and now being fitted is a 25,000 ton passenger boat which, when finished in 1952, will ply between Genoa and New York. The number of workers employed at this shipyard total 4,500 workers. Returning prisoners of war and soldiers account for the extra 1,000
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