World's largest electric smart ship building by 江西江新造船, a 740TEU container ship called 宁远电鲲, has started sea trials. Uses 10 box shaped swappable battery + solar panels.
Excerpt from an academic paper depicting an FEA simulation model of a 80000-ton floating nuclear power plant. Posted by @伏尔戈星图 on Weibo.
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From what I can see these images are from 2021. I thought China canceled plans for any noteworthy FNPP?
I haven't heard or seen anything indicating that to be the case. Also, without knowing the title and time of publication of that paper, it could've been from N-years ago instead of just recently.
There are time stamps on each image. 3.1, 3.3, and 3.4 were generated in 2021, and 3.2 in 2022. The plan to suspend building them in the South China Sea came into effect a few years back, not sure if that's changed though.
December and full year stats are out:
For Full year 2025:
- global ship orders in 2025 will total 56.43 million compensated gross tons (CGT), a 26.5% decrease from 2024
- Korea received 11.6 million CGT in orders, a 7.6% increase from 2024. Its market share reached 21%
- China received orders for 35.37 million CGT, a 34.8% decrease from 2024. Its market share reached 63%, down 8 percentage points from 2024.
- Japan at 5%.
Other notable observations:
- Korean orders increased in 2025 while China's decreased. Overall, China had a good year but not the peak of 2024 where it had 70+ % market share.
- Koreans did really well in LNG, can't find the source now, but apparently China got only 3 LNG orders in 2025, while Korea secured bulk of it.
- Koreans are predicting a major new cycle of LNG carriers in short term and predicting that they are going to win it all.
- In 2022, the market share for LNG carrier newbuilds was 67.5% (115 vessels) for Korea and 32.5% (56 vessels) for China. In 2024 the gap narrowed to 57.2% (48 vessels) for Korea and 42.8% (28 vessels) for China.
- Instead of overtaking Korea, Chinese LNG orders went in reverse, however it was a lean period for orders and could be a blip.
Hengli Shipbuilding Secures Up to USD1 Billion Order for Big Oil Tankers
Hengli Shipbuilding, a Chinese high-end shipbuilder and marine engineering services provider, has secured an order for 10 large crude oil tankers, which could be worth between USD700 million and USD1 billion.
Note - Hengli group is a separate shipbuilding entity and doesn't come under CSSC.
Excerpt from an academic paper depicting an FEA simulation model of a 80000-ton floating nuclear power plant. Posted by @伏尔戈星图 on Weibo.
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