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The naval constructors of Japan, Europe, China, Korea and the USA speed up politics to resolve the serious problems that weigh on the field
Exhortation see again the current conditions picture that regulate the industry
November 4, 2019
The naval constructors of Japan, Europe, China, Korea and the United States ask politics initiatives in order to resolve the serious problems that weigh on the field of the navalmeccanica, market that they give beyond a decade suffers from an excess of productive ability and an erosion of the selling prices of the new ships. The demand is formulated in occasion of ventottesimo the Top Executive Meeting of the JECKU, the forum constituted in 1994 from Japan, Europe, China, South Korea and the USA in order to discuss about the main topics of the industry, than monday slid to Viareggio has held.
In the course of the encounter it is evidenced that the important increase of the question of ships in the immediately preceding years world-wide the economic crisis of the 2008 has determined an enormous increment of the naval manufacturing capacity, but with the explosion of the crisis the question is collapsed and it has not still recovered the dynamic precedence of increase. Moreover it is emphasized that the huge public subsidies granted to the ship yards in Korea and China prevent a correction of the market and assure instead the maintenance of the ability excess. To get worse the things the offer by single ship yards of ships to by far inferior price to the production costs with the attempt joins to maintain in activity their excess of ability. To this the challenges join so that the field undertakes another important transformation assuring that it stops to contribute meanwhile to the climatic change and the environmental pollution and guaranteeing that contributes to the development of world-wide the commercial exchanges.
From here the invitation to politics to face these problems and see again the current conditions picture that regulate the field of the shipbuilding with it stipulates of an international agreement that guarantees parity of competition in the navalmeccanico field, understanding demanded in vain for years from shipbuilding the European.
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