In 2023, China's shipbuilding industry will continue to maintain a steady development trend

The second is to improve the quality and efficiency, grasp the rhythm to improve the quality of orders. In the past two years, the global new shipbuilding market has remained active, and the market demand for different ship types has shown wheel development, and the price of new ships such as large container ships has increased significantly, and the price difference of the same type of ships has reached tens of millions of dollars in a year.

The China Shipping Association suggests that shipping enterprises strengthen the dynamic tracking of the development of the international shipping and shipbuilding market, avoid blindly following the trend, combine their own holding of ship orders and ship location arrangements, under the premise of ensuring the continuity of enterprise production, optimize business strategies, grasp the rhythm of orders, and further improve the quality of new orders.

The third is to prevent risks, strengthen research and judgment to take countermeasures. At present, the external environment facing the shipping industry is becoming more complex and uncertain. Since the fourth quarter of 2022, the RMB exchange rate has continued to appreciate against the US dollar; The price of imported iron ore reached $116 a tonne; The fluctuation range of new ship prices increased, the composite index of new ship prices showed "stagflation", and the prices of individual ship types fell.

The China Shipping Association recommends that shipping enterprises strengthen market research and evaluation, adhere to the risk-neutral concept, strengthen upstream and downstream cooperation in the industrial chain, and control risks such as raw material costs and exchange rate changes by signing long-term procurement agreements with steel enterprises and signing long-term foreign exchange settlement agreements with financial institutions.

In addition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) existing ship energy efficiency index and ship operation carbon intensity index rating and other new rules come into effect, and will be adopted in July 2023 revised IMO ship greenhouse gas emission reduction strategy, China Shipping Association suggests that relevant ship companies and research institutions pay close attention to, early research to take countermeasures.

Fourth, explore and innovate to resolve the contradiction of insufficient human resources. At present, the contradiction between the rapid growth of China's ship production and the shortage of labor supply is becoming increasingly prominent, which has become an important factor restricting the high-quality development of the industry.

The China Shipping Association suggests that relevant government departments attach great importance to it, organize in-depth research, and increase policy support for the recruitment of employees and professional job training of shipping enterprises.

Ship key areas, should be combined with vocational education reform, research and innovation ship and Marine engineering equipment professional technical personnel, skilled personnel training mechanism. It is suggested that the backbone ship enterprises reform the existing employment mode, explore the appropriate increase in the number of workers, improve the treatment of workers, improve the working environment and other measures to maintain the stability of the staff and improve the technical level.

At the same time, the China Shipping Association recommends that shipping enterprises prudently promote the application of intelligent manufacturing technology according to the existing foundation and conditions, improve production efficiency, and alleviate the problem of labor shortage.

China Shipping Association believes that in 2023, China's shipping industry will continue to maintain a steady development trend and contribute its own strength to stable growth, stable employment and stable exports.