Cope with the international shipbuilding market complex and grim situation, the State Council issued last week, ship industry transformation and upgrading of structural adjustment programs, which give Nantong ship enterprises brought Policy gospel. Reporter yesterday from the Municipal Economic and Information Technology Committee was informed that the city's overall stabilization of the shipbuilding industry, marine equipment industry development trend is good.

The first half of this year, the city's new shipbuilding orders Enterprises 45, 1,335,000 dwt, new orders more than last year's 1.04 million dwt. The city's business orderbook of about 16.3 million dwt, total ranks first in the province. Orders from the new structure, new orders this year, mainly in the main bulk carriers and special vessels, including LNG carriers, heavy lift ship engineering vessels and other special vessels orders are 23, accounting for more than half. Pacific Marine received three new vessels 27,500 cubic +5 small LNG ship orders, to achieve the city's LNG ship construction breakthroughs in the field. Experts reason that this year a substantial rebound in orders in 2012 is built on the basis of very few new orders, in absolute terms, the volume of new orders this year, the city and the first half of 2011 compared to 4.54 million dwt orders is still a considerable large gap.

The face of the downward trend of traditional shipbuilding orders, Nantong shipping enterprises will develop the direction of target high added value, promising marine engineering equipment manufacturing industries. Marine new orders continued to grow, the first seven months, the city received a total enterprise orders 12 offshore platforms, approximately $ 2.08 billion, an increase of 18.2%. Among them, China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. located in Haimen after the orders have been awarded six platforms, approximately $ 1.18 billion Nantong COSCO Ship orders to undertake three rigs, approximately $ 540 million RSHI undertake two jack-up platform orders, approximately $ 360 million. Wison Heavy COSL obtained from the Gulf of Mexico a modular rig construction contract. At present, the city's enterprise handheld marine orders of approximately $ 6.6 billion.

Marine industrial output continued to grow rapidly in the first half of marine emerging industry output value 11.73 billion yuan, an increase of 14.2%.