Chinese shipbuilding industry

Quite a good article on LNG shipbuilding this one:

Below is market share (from Clarkson) for China and Korea. Korea in dark blue.

Last year was good for K-LNG.

Wrought said:

Shipping is not the same as shipbuilding; ports are not the same as shipyards.

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I agree, but shipping is intimately linked to shipbuilding. More shipping requirement equates more shipbuilding demand, domestic shipping ownership equates power to place orders, etc. etc. Anyways, moderator is the king, so they can decide if this should or shouldn't belong here.

Wrought said:

Shipping is not the same as shipbuilding; ports are not the same as shipyards.

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Exactly. Singapore is #2 in container traffic (mostly transshipments), yet only #10 in gross tonnage shipbuilding. Traffic is not the same as manufacturing, esp. for transshipments hubs like Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, etc ... with almost non-existent shipbuilding at scale.

Then again, this is the same guy who thinks Tokyo Electric manufactures "Lithography Machines", so he has a history of conflating adjacencies and mixing basic definition.