CONTAINERSHIPS COMETOTHE FORE

摘要

There has been a shift in the mix of vessels on order at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering this year, as the booming market for containerships has overtaken the builder's previous focus on liquefied natural gas carriers. Turnover from 2007 shipbuilding production is set to reach W0N7 trillion (US$7.65 billion) this year, rising to WON8.5 trillion next year. Where over 50% of that money has been generated by LNG carrier production until this year, the yard is forecasting that, by 2010, this will be overtaken by containership output, which will in turn go on to make up over half of sales.