China's ship exports hit record $5.49b in first half
Xinhua, Beijing
China's export volume of ships hit a record high of 5.49 billion US dollars in the first half of the year, up 61 percent over the same period last year, according to figures from the General Administration of Customs.For the first time China overtook Japan to rank the second in terms of vessel order book tonnages, a major shipbuilding index, and took up 28 percent share of the world market, according to the London-based Clarkson, a firm specializing in the global shipbuilding market analysis. China's shipbuilding industry scored an output value of 101.7 billion yuan (13.4 billion US dollars) in the first six months, a rise of 48 percent over the same period last year, according to statistics issued by the management office for shipbuilding industry under the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense (CSTIND).
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