China overtakes Korea

Korea's shipbuilding industry, ranked top in the world, was overtaken by China's in terms of order volume last January for the first time ever. According to Thursday's report from Clarkson, a market researcher for the ship construction industry, the Korean shipbuilding industry received orders totalling 600,000 CGT (compensated gross tonnage) ...

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