Box ship building in China hits new heights with 68.5% of global orders
China has become the undisputed front-runner in containership building, with an orderbook, extending to 2030, ...
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SinoShip Magazine canvasses opinion from its team of columnists on what lies ahead for China’s economy and its shipping industry. Continually rising costs are a near-certainty, which the government will have to tackle if its exporters’ margins are not to be squeezed to paper thin levels; some of the country’s shipbuilders, which proliferated during the boom years, are destined to go to the wall; and there are rays of hope for shipping lines… but in 2014. They’ll have to survive this year first.
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