China, But No Crisis for Ship Repair

2007-12-01T11:32:00

There is a clear trend towards the use of more environmentally friendly coatings during vessel maintenance docking.

The ship repair and maintenance industry has been through some significant changes over the past few years. Increasingly, the larger scale vessel repair projects, involving significant steel renewals on bulk carriers, tankers and containerships for example, are being carried out at yards in China, where labour costs are relatively low.

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