In the January-April period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output of the 53 major shipbuilding enterprises in China amounted to 11.33 million dead weight tons (dwt), down 28.5 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 17.54 million dwt, increasing by 217 percent year on year. As of the end of April, ship orders on the books of the shipbuilding enterprises in question totaled 89.85 million dwt, up 10.9 percent year on year.
In the January-April period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output for export orders of the 53 major shipbuilding enterprises in China totaled 10.54 million dwt, down 30.1 percent year on year. Meanwhile, new ship export orders of the shipbuilding enterprises in the period in question amounted to 16.24 million dwt, increasing by 245 percent year on year. As of the end of April, ship export orders on the books of the 53 major shipbuilding enterprises totaled 81.58 million dwt, up 9.5 percent year on year.