EARLY government estimates put China's 2003 shipbuilding output up by 46% year-on-year to a record 6m dwt.
Zhang Guangqin, deputy director of China's Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, which oversees the shipbuilding sector, said China now had secured a 10% share of the global shipbuilding market, in third place behind South Korea and Japan, a position it has held since 1992
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