China leads the world in ship orders

As of the end of December 2007, Chinese shipbuilders? orders-in-hand had totaled 158.89 million dwt, rising by 131% year-on-year, according to statistics released by the Shipping Industry Administrative Office of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence. China accounted for 33% of the world's total shipbuilding orders-in-hand ...

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