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Global shipbuilding boom moves into overdrive

Original · Splash247 · Shipping · 3h ago
The global shipbuilding boom is gathering pace, with orderbooks surpassing their previous 2008 peak, Chinese yards tightening their grip on the market and tanker owners increasingly turning to inexperienced builders to secure delivery slots. New figures from BIMCO put the global orderbook at 203.2m compensated gross tonnes (cgt) at the start of September, up 13%…
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