Review and prospect of world shipbuilding industry in 2022

Ii. Review and Prospect of major shipbuilding countries (economies)

(1) Japan

The Japanese shipbuilding industry has seized the opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and energy revolution, and actively made efforts to green and low-carbon fields to promote the transformation and development of the shipbuilding industry. On the one hand, the competent departments of the Japanese government have increased policy support and introduced policies such as Expanding shipbuilding exports and Regional Revitalization through the Productivity Revolution of the Maritime Industry (i-Shipping) and Deepening Measures to promote the productivity revolution of the Maritime Industry, which have clarified the key tasks for the development of the shipbuilding industry in the next stage. Through government planning, Japan has incorporated the research and development of green ships into the overall national development strategy, guided the upstream and downstream of the shipping, shipbuilding, supporting and other industrial chains to participate in research and development projects, and better obtained financial support. On the other hand, Japan accelerated the integration and restructuring of the industry, some shipbuilding companies closed their factories and even withdrew from the shipbuilding business, and the development of resources to the stable operation of large shipbuilding companies with advantages, further enhance their scale advantages and industry status, to a certain extent, also eased the fierce competition from the international market.

In the short term, the Japanese shipbuilding industry will continue to carry out work in the following aspects: First, it will continue to promote industrial integration and cooperation, enhance the overall competitiveness of the shipbuilding industry through scale effects, and give full play to the role of financial platforms, encouraging shipbuilding, shipping, supporting, research institutes and other industrial chain upstream and downstream in-depth technology research and development, product application and other cooperation. The second is to vigorously develop zero-emission ships, accelerate the transition to new energy ships and promote commercialization, actively participate in the formulation of international standards and rules related to emission reduction, and reshape the competitiveness of the Japanese shipbuilding industry in the international market.

(2) South Korea

The Korean shipbuilding industry strives for comprehensive policy support from the government and concentrates all policy forces to ensure the global leading position of the Korean shipbuilding industry. In 2022, the Korean government convened a meeting of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance to announce a strategy to ensure the shipbuilding industry's Super Gap, proposing to ensure the global competitiveness of the Korean shipbuilding industry. It will provide comprehensive policy support in many areas, such as technology development, human resources, finance, institutional improvement, industrial chain construction, and cooperation between large and small enterprises. At the same time, it is clear that the policy will strengthen human resources work, and formulate management measures to attract foreign workers on the basis of improving the existing domestic labor system. In terms of financial policies, Korea will strengthen the export competitiveness of the shipbuilding industry by providing financial support such as prepayment guarantees to shipbuilders, providing stable supply of raw materials, and expanding exports of small and medium-sized shipbuilders and auxiliary equipment companies.

According to the clear content of the Strategy to Ensure the Super Gap in the shipbuilding industry, the Korean shipbuilding industry will continue to promote the following aspects in the future: First, continue to seize the dominant position in the market of high value-added vessels such as ultra-large container ships and liquefied gas carriers, promote the localization of the core technology of LNG carriers and the development and application of carbon emission reduction technology and zero carbon emission technology, and complete the demonstration and construction of liquid hydrogen carriers and realize the commercialization. The second is to promote the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to jointly develop new technologies and new products, especially to give full play to the strength of ship supporting enterprises, and participate in the design, development, construction, marketing, after-sales and other links of new ship types.

(3) China

China's shipbuilding industry has overcome the pressure of the epidemic and made every effort to promote high-quality development in accordance with the overall requirements of "forging long boards, reinforcing weak boards, adjusting structure and strengthening brands". First, consolidate the international market position of superior ship types and continue to expand international market share. In 2022, 12 ship types ranked first in the world in new orders, of which 7 ship types, including container ships, bulk carriers, crude oil carriers, chemical carriers, Marine engineering auxiliary vessels, car carriers and multi-purpose vessels, have a global market share of more than 50%. The second is to continuously improve the competitiveness of ship fittings products, continue to improve the loading rate of domestic supporting equipment such as Marine main engine, Marine boiler, Marine crane, Marine gas supply system (FGSS), and the stability of the industry chain supply chain has been significantly improved. Third, continue to increase the research and development of high-tech vessels, and realize the delivery of a number of high-end vessels such as the world's first 300,000-ton LNG dual-fuel power very large crude oil carrier (VLCC), the world's first 209,000-ton Newcastle LNG dual-fuel power bulk carrier, and China's first 49,900 ton methanol dual-fuel power chemical/refined oil carrier.