In the January-June period this year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China amounted to 21.13 million dead weight tons (dwt), up 14.2 percent year on year, as announced by the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI).
In the given period, China’s new ship orders amounted to 37.67 million dwt, rising by 67.7 percent year on year. As of the end of June this year, ship orders on the books of Chinese shipbuilding enterprises totaled 123.77 million dwt, up 20.5 percent year on year.
In the January-June period, the shipbuilding output and the new shipbuilding order volume of Chinese shipbuilding enterprises accounted for 49.6 percent and 72.6 percent of the overall respective volumes globally, while as of the end of June ship orders on the books of the Chinese enterprises accounted for 46.8 percent of ship orders on the books of shipbuilding enterprises globally.