Five gold rings for Korean builders
LONDON 18 December – South Korean shipbuilders have taken the top five places in the latest listing of yards and their order backlogs from Clarksons, the London-based shipping services provider. Hyundai Heavy Industries remains well ahead with 13.47M compensated gross tons - which measures the level of shipbuilding output - followed by Samsung with 9.23M CGT, Daewoo (7.6M CGT), Hyundai Mipo (4.06M CGT) and Hyundai Samho (3.06M CGT). The top ten included two Chinese yards (with Dalian New Shipyard at 2.74M CGT) and one Japanese yard. A spokesman from Korea Shipbuilders' Association commented that Chinese and Japanese rivals would find it hard to overtake Korean yards because the Koreans are regularly winning orders for high-value LNG carriers.
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