China's ship trading maintains increase, despite a slowly recovering global economy and troubled shipping and shipbuilding markets.
In the first two months of this year, China's ship export stood at $6.94bn, up by 6.8% year-on-year, while ship import increased by 2.7% to $260m and a total amount of ship import and export grew by 6.7% to $7.2bn, according to the General Administration of Customs of China.
Main export vessels are still bulker and tanker. Bulker exports accounted for 65% of overall export with $4.51bn.