In the first seven months this year, the 74 monitored Chinese shipbuilding enterprises registered an aggregate operating revenue of RMB 216.78 billion ($30 billion), up 29.9 percent year on year, while posting a gross profit of RMB 8.34 billion ($1.2 billion), up 273.7 percent year on year, as announced by the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI).
In the January-July period, the new shipbuilding order volumes held by China, South Korea and Japan accounted for 67.7 percent, 21.5 percent and 9.2 percent of the overall new shipbuilding order volume in the global market.