In the January-September period this year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China amounted to 30.74 million dead weight tons (dwt), up 10.6 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 57.34 million dwt, rising by 76.7 percent year on year. As of the end of September this year, ship orders on the books of Chinese shipbuilding enterprises totaled 133.93 million dwt, up 30.6 percent year on year.
In the January-September period, the shipbuilding output and the new shipbuilding order volume of Chinese shipbuilding enterprises accounted for 46 percent and 63.5 percent of the overall respective volumes globally, while as of the end of September ship orders on the books of the Chinese enterprises accounted for 50.2 percent of ship orders on the books of shipbuilding enterprises globally.