Japanese media: In the three major indicators of the shipbuilding industry, China far surpasses Japan.
Japan's "Traffic News" ** article on February 1, original title: The world's shipbuilding market share "China and South Korea account for eighty percent", and Japan once accounted for fifty percent.
Katsuhiko Koshichi, chairman of the Japan Small and Medium-sized Shipbuilding Manufacturers Association, said in January, "The new shipbuilding market is showing a gradual recovery trend, regardless of domestic and foreign aviation." Combined with the depreciation of the yen, this situation will continue this year. ”
On the other hand, China announced in the same month that the three major indicators of the shipbuilding industry - shipbuilding completion, new orders, and hand-held orders - have reached more than 50% of the world market share. In addition to the increase in orders for major types of ships such as oil tankers, bulk carriers, and container ships, the construction of car carriers to support the export of domestically produced vehicles is also increasing, indicating that China's position as a world-class factory for merchant ships is gradually consolidating.
According to the Japan Shipbuilding Export Union, Japanese shipyards will sign orders for 272 export ships in 2023, with a total tonnage of about 11.99 million gross tons. This is not rosy for the Japanese shipbuilding industry. In 1956, Japan's shipbuilding industry ranked first in the world in terms of construction volume, and at one time occupied 50% of the world market share. However, during the shipbuilding depression after the oil crisis, Japanese shipbuilding companies twice cut production equipment. At the same time, South Korea and China began to build large shipyards from the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, respectively.
With the increasing number of Chinese and Korean shipyards, Japan's order volume and international share have both shown a downward trend, and in 2022, China accounted for 47% of the international market share of shipbuilding completions, South Korea accounted for 30%, and Japan only 17%.
According to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on January 15, China's shipbuilding completions in 2023 will be 42.32 million deadweight tons, accounting for 50% of the international market share2%；The number of new orders undertaken was 71.2 million deadweight tons, accounting for 66 percent of the global total6%。In particular, the number of new orders for car carriers accounted for 82 percent of the global total7%, oil tankers account for 70%, container ships account for nearly 50%, and the share is very high.
Steamship companies are also showing a tendency to choose Chinese shipyards, and the Japanese shipping company Ocean Network Shipping recently ordered 12 13,000TEU methanol dual-fuel ships from Jiangnan Shipbuilding and Yangtze River Shipbuilding. It can be seen that in terms of building high-tech ships, Japanese shipyards are also lagging behind.
Global Times.