Japanese Foreign Ship Orders Plummet
August 27, 1999
Japanese shipyards received foreign orders for 21 vessels totaling 581,100 grt in July, down 39.6 percent from a year before, the Japan Ship Exporters' Association reported. Nineteen orders were for bulk carriers and two for freighters, it said.
The statistics include orders association members received for steel vessels of 500 grt or more.
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