Gummed-up global supply chains may be a headache for consumers and economic policy makers trying to tame inflation. For the world’s shipbuilding industry, they are proving to be a boon — particularly in China.
It’s already a bumper year for this globally dominant area of Chinese industry, with newly received ship orders up by more than 200 percent in the first three quarters of this year, according to data from the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry. Such figures ar
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