A total of 763-ship contracts of a combined 14.3m cgt ($55.1bn) were placed orders during the first nine months of this year, which represents around 50% decrease year-on-year in cgt terms.
According to Clarkson, during the period, overall 249 new orders of a combined 2.8m cgt, totalling $32.5bn were contracted in offshore sector, including drillship, FPSO, FSRU, OSV, etc., down by 8% year-on-year in terms of cgt but up by 8% in value terms. That accounts for 59% of total amount of contracts, in value terms.
From January to September of 2012, dry bulk ship over 10,000 dwt saw a total of 199 new orders of a cumulative 3.4m cgt ($5.2bn), dropped by 56% year-on-year. In case of ship sizes, 81 panamaxes (60,000-100,000 dwt), 61 handysizes, 43 handymaxes, 14 capesizes, etc., were placed orders.
102 tankers of a combined 2.3m cgt ($4.4bn) were booked during the same period, up by 7% but down 6% in value terms. 55 MR product carriers (30,000-60,000 dwt), 20 chemical tankers (10,000-60,000), eight VLCCs, five suezmaxes, seven aframaxes, six panamaxes (60,000-80,000) were contracted.
Meanwhile, only 46 container vessels of a cumulative 1.4m cgt ($2.3bn) were ordered in the first nine months, plummeted by 70% year-on-year. 10 large boxships over 8,000 teu (CMA CGM's 10 9,200TEUs not included yet), 20 medium sized vessels ranging from 3,000 to 8,000 teu, 16 vessels of under 3,000-teu were inked.
Overall 23 LNG carriers of a combined 1.9m cgt ($4.5bn) were contracted in the first nine months of the year, down by 35% year-on-year, while LPG carriers saw frenetic increase with 43 orders of a cumulative 0.7m cgt ($1.6bn) contracted, up by 250%.
In case of cruise ship, four vessels of a combined 0.4m cgt ($2.2bn) were placed orders, down by 65%.
Korean shipyards have taken contracts totalling 169 vessels of a combined 5.2m cgt ($18.9bn), while Chinese shipbuilders inked 293 vessels of a cumulative 5m cgt ($10.2bn), Japanese penned 89 vessels of a combined 1.7m cgt ($2.8bn).
Particularly, Brazilian shipyards were boosted with new orders totalling 46 vessels of a cumulative 0.8m cgt ($13.3bn) and Norwegian penned 39 orders of a combined 0.3m cgt ($2.9bn).