In the January-July period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output of the 53 major shipbuilding enterprises in China amounted to 21.16 million dead weight tons (dwt), down 18.6 percent year on year, as announced by the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI). In the given period, new ship orders of the 53 major shipbuilding enterprises amounted to 22.88 million dwt, increasing by 88.5 percent year on year. As of the end of July, ship orders on the books of the shipbuilding enterprises in question totaled 85.36 million dwt, up 11.6 percent year on year.
In the January-July period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output for export orders of the 53 major shipbuilding enterprises in China totaled 19.47 million dwt, down 20.3 percent year on year. Meanwhile, new ship export orders of the shipbuilding enterprises in the period in question amounted to 20.59 million dwt, increasing by 88.4 percent year on year. As of the end of July, ship export orders on the books of the 53 major shipbuilding enterprises totaled 76.82 million dwt, up 8.0 percent year on year.