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WORLD SHIPBUILDING (continued) al shipbuilding countries fluctuate from year to year.

Japan and South Korea continue their current domination of the market, taking 73 percent of the new orders placed; just under 10 percent went to EEC member coun- tries. China (including Taiwan) has increased its share of orders for the second year running (Table 4).

A difficult situation in Finland was averted by the USSR bringing forward orders that would not nor- mally have been placed until 1986 under the next five-year plan. This enabled Finnish shipbuilders to maintain their production sched- ules. A notable order was for the hulls of two 52,000-shp nuclear- powered icebreakers; the reactors and propulsion machinery are to be installed in Leningrad.

The decrease in Poland was main- ly due to the absence of orders placed by Western countries. In ad- dition, reports of orders recently placed by owners from the Commu- nist bloc may not be completed.

During the year, the first pur- pose-built tanker/processing/stor- age vessel was ordered in Japan by

Norwegian owners for delivery in 1986.

Comparing the leading shipbuild- ing countries of five years ago with those of today, it can be seen that

Japan and South Korea have greatly increased their orderbooks, while the U.S. and Brazil have shown a decrease of more than a million gross tons. Other countries showing a decrease include France, Poland, the United Kingdom, Spain, and

Sweden, while Denmark and Fin- land are at about the same level.

The current delivery schedule shows a contracting orderbook, with few contracts placed for delivery beyond 1986 (Table 3).

Principal countries of disposal for demolitions during 1984, which are estimated to be on the same 16.5 million gross ton level as the pre- vious year, were: China (including

Taiwan), 49 percent; South Korea, 24 percent; Pakistan, 7 percent; Ja- pan, 5 percent; Spain, 4 percent; and other countries, 11 percent.

More than 50 percent of the world merchant fleet (100 gt and above) is now at least 10 years old. Only 11 percent of the tanker fleet, but almost 24 percent of the bulk carrier fleet, is less than five years of age.

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