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From January to may, China completed 16.43 million deadweight tons of shipbuilding, down 28.3% year on year. New ship orders for 1960,000 deadweight tons, up 99.6 percent year on year. At the end of may, orders for hand-held vessels totaled 890.3 million deadweight tons, up 7.5 percent from a year earlier and 2.1 percent from the end of 2017. ...