Analysis 2 The Market for Naval Surface Combatants 2013-2022

摘要

The number of ships forecast for production in this year's edition of "The Market for Naval Surface Combatants" has declined sharply from last year's study, with a projected total of 202 ships in the 2013-2022 timeframe, as compared with 223 in last year's edition. This represents a decline of 9.4 percent. There are several reasons for this fall, the primary one being that the financial crisis that started in 2007/08 caused a bow-wave of delayed construction that was finally completed in 2012. The same financial problems have caused a number of European building programs to be cut back or abandoned completely.