Fly the Flag ; You Say Email:Letters@Liverpoolecho.Co.Uk

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In They could spare a FRIDAY, September 3 wasMerchant Navy Day yet many public buildingswere not flying the Red Ensign. Why? be very Our island nation seems to have forgotten about the Merchant Navy and its important part in bringing food to our table and essential goods to our homes. Ships carry some 92% of our international trade and 24% of internal trade goes by coastal shipping, thus relieving our busy, crowded roads and railways of freight.

TheUKpopulation has become sea-blind. Early signs are that the Defence Reviewwill give us a still smaller Royal Navy,with fewer ships. This of course will mean that theNavy"s important everyday task, in both peacetime and war, of policing the sea lanes, our nation"s lifelines, will be harder to do.

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Fly the Flag ; You Say Email:Letters@Liverpoolecho.Co.Uk

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