Overall 79 vessels (excluding five drillships) of a combined 3.2m dwt were delivered in September, up by 7.7% from 86 vessels of a cumulative 2.97m dwt, on the same month of last year. 
With largely increased order for ultra-large containership, a total of 10 vessels, 1.1m dwt were contracted during the last month, reported Clarkson.
On the contrary, bulker and tanker segments made poor results, with six vessels of 475,000 dwt and six vessels of 440,000 dwt contracted, respectively.
Three major commercial ships took around 63% of overall new order, in dwt terms.
Chinese shipbuilders won 60% of global new order by having contracted 34 vessels of a combined 1.917m dwt in September, increased by 81% year-on-year. Korean shipbuilders made up 26% of global shares with 20 orders (five drillships excluded) of a cumulative 828,000 dwt, up by 24% y-o-y, while Japanese inked three vessels of a combined 229,000 dwt, plummeted by 73%, accounting for 7.2% shares.
During the last month, global newbuilding delivery declined by 32.5% y-o-y to 161 vessels of 12.01m dwt and three major ship types took up 98.6% of total delivery.
As for delivery by shipbuilding countries, China saw 9.6% decrease y-o-y to 67 vessels of 4.74m dwt. 42 vessels of 4.4m dwt, down by 5.2%, were delivered from Korean shipyard, while 35 vessels of 2.54m dwt, decreased by 35.5%, from Japanese.
China, Korea and Japan accounted for 39.5%, 36.6% and 21.1% of global newbuilding delivery, each.
Meanwhile, newbuilding orderbook in the world stood at 4,740 vessels of a combined 274.08m dwt, now. Chinese shipyards sit on 1,900 orders of 115.83m dwt, while Korean and Japanese secure 851 vessels of 73.43m dwt and 765 vessels of 58.48m dwt each. China, Korea and Japan took up 42.3%, 26.8% and 21.3% of global backlog, respectively.