China's Ship Plate Production for Jan.-Sep. 2011 Up 2.97 Pct

China has produced 13.4553 million tonnes of ship plate in the first three quarters of this year, up 2.97 percent year on year; high-strength ship plate output was 6.046 million tonnes, down 3.18 percent compared with the same period last year.
China's ship plate production for September was 1.4509 million tonnes, up 4.58 percent over a year earlier; high-strength ship plate output was 576,100 tonnes, down 8.8 percent.
9 Chinese steelmakers had a ship plate production of more than 500,000 tonnes in the first nine months of this year and 7 posted a high-strength ship plate output of exceeding 300,000 tonnes.
The increase in ship plate production shall be attributed to thie shipbuilding capacity expansion. China's accomplished shipbuilding output came to 51.01 million DWT in the first three quarters of this year, up 18.3 percent from a year ago.
China's demand for high-strength ship plate from shipbuilding industry maintains stable growth in 2011. Therefore, Chinese steelmakers are suggested to adjust product mix and improve quality of high-strength ship plate to meet the demand of domestic shipbuilding industry.