New ship orders of first half year Surpass South Korea ranked first in the world

Date: 2009-07-30

Source: Daily Economic News 

According to British research firm CLARKSON latest figures show that the first half of this year, China's shipbuilding industry received orders for new capacity of 1.9 million dwt, has surpassed South Korea's 1.3 million dwt, to become the first in the world.

  According to the statistics, the cumulative turnover of the first half of the world's 80 new ships, including 3.39 million dwt, representing a 95 percent reduction in the same period last year.

1 ~ 5 months, China received only 30 million deadweight tons of orders the same period, new orders for South Korea 1.1 million dwt, but in June, China's new orders to reach 1.6 million tons in order to go beyond Korea.

  Despite the sharp drop in orders for new vessels, but the world's largest container carrier Maersk Group, yesterday predicted that the global container traffic idle stop round early next year will increase by 66%.  Idle capacity and the continuous increase was mainly due to the continued downturn of the global trade and have a new round of delivery.

Earlier, Maersk Sealand, the world's container traffic forecast downturn will last until 2010.

  China Shipping Industry Industry Association also recently released the "first half of 2009 economic operation in the shipbuilding industry," pointed out that the entire shipbuilding industry chain from the point of view of operation, in the absence of effective demand and the decline in shipbuilding double the cost factors, the shipbuilding market the short term is unlikely the situation out of the doldrums, the second half of the price of new ships will continue to show a downward trend.