In 2016 the global shipbuilding industry continues to slump, however, and the Asian shipbuilding industry is currently facing dire straits is completely different, the German shipbuilding industry bucked the trend for second consecutive years. What is the secret of the success of the shipbuilding industry in Germany?

German Maritime systems and equipment manufacturers have been in the leading position in the global market, Japan and South Korea are the main customers of these manufacturers. In fact, more than half of German equipment sales are from within the European interior, which is one of the reasons for its ability to smoothly through the current downturn. Clarkson's data show that this year, the European get more than $7 billion in new shipbuilding projects, accounting for 63% of the world market share. At the same time, the current Asian shipyards received new ship orders have been obtained mainly from the owner of the time charter, these customers usually pay more attention to the quality of equipment, which is why the German equipment manufacturers in new shipbuilding projects under the condition of Limited is still able to achieve market share rise.

The German Fassmer Werft shipyard CEO Harald Fassmer said: "the German shipbuilding industry's success lies in the high expectations of the customer, the ship building process is complex, needs a large number of professional experts, together, hundreds of enterprises is very reliable, ensure the shipbuilding project success, similar cooperation in Germany for decades, other countries may not easily copy."

Due to the German shipyard focused on innovation and has a huge potential market, in 2015 the German shipbuilding plant ground is relatively high. Many of the hand held orders in the shipyard can guarantee a sufficient amount of work in the next few years, but there is a significant difference between the different yards.

Before 2016 April, German shipyards received 9 new ship orders worth $1 billion 400 million, not including from Malaysia Genting group, 10 new ship orders, because the $3 billion 800 million new ship orders signed in May 2016.