Supply Chain Research

The global shipbuilding industry has had a weak start to 2019. New vessel orders in China have slumped 70.4% year over year in 1Q. Meanwhile the remaining orderbook at Chinese yards fell to its lowest since Nov. 2017 at the end of March. The three largest export markets – China, Japan and South Korea – saw improving exports in the month of March with an aggregate 20.1% increase, though that didn’t prevent a 13.4% drop for the quarter as a whole. The latter was led by a 23.6% slump in exports from South Korea, underscoring the need for the consolidation in the industry. That’s being deliv...