Singapore's Major Offshore Players Hit by Slow Orders, Chinese Competition
Optimism generated by record deliveries of newbuild jackups by Singapore shipyards in 2013 has faded somewhat amid slow orders and a sustained challenge from lower cost competitors in China so far this year.
Singapore’s two major offshore contractors, comprising subsidiaries of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) – a unit of Keppel Corporation Limited – and Sembcorp Marine Ltd., have seen orders for their mainstay jackup construction business halved in the period under review. Chinese shipyards have, on the other hand, secured more newbuild jackup contracts than their Singapore rivals.
China Maintain Leads
Since the beginning of the year, Chinese shipyards have managed to sustain the momentum of winning more jackup orders compared to their Singapore counterparts, a milestone first achieved in 2013. China-based firms secured contracts to build 10 new jackups in the current year, while Singapore yards trail behind with seven, according to Rigzone’s RigLogix database.
“This is the second year in a row that China has won more jackup orders than Singapore … although the jury is still out there,” on whether the trend will be sustained through the rest of this year, Vincent Fernando, research director at Religare Capital Markets (Singapore) Pte Ltd. told Rigzone.
Apart from jackups, Chinese yards made further inroads in the semisubmersible and drillship construction market in Asia. While Singapore yards received orders for drillship construction, they did not clinch semisubmersible contracts this year.
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