韩国造船业面临中国和日本的夹击

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刘水, 韩国造船业面临中国和日本的夹击. RFA. Mar 22, 2016.
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yata ... 03222016101512.html

Note:
(a) Clarksons places behind paywall reports, such as this one.
(b) Clarkson plc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkson_plc
(often referred to simply as Clarksons; was founded by Horace Anderton Clarkson in London in 1852)

(c)
(i) KOSPI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOSPI
(KOrea Composite Stock Price Index 指數)
(ii) "Saddled with accumulated losses of over 7 trillion won"

Foreign exchange rate today: $1 = 1,155.6 won
(iii) For Shinhan Investment Corp, see Shinhan Bank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinhan_Bank
(was the first bank in Korea, established under the name Hanseong 漢城 Bank in 1897; [then] was reestablished in 1982)

新漢 (新 often is romanized as "sin.")
(iv) Imabari Shipbuilding  今治造船株式会社
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imabari_Shipbuilding
(headquartered in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture 愛媛県 今治市, Japan)
(v) Japanese English dictionary:
* hime 姫(P); 媛(oK) 【ひめ】 (n): "(1) princess; young lady of noble birth; (2) girl"
(vi) Japan Marine United
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Marine_United
(Japanese name is katakana of the English name; Japan's second largest shipbuilder after Imabari Shipbuilding)

(d) But recall that on Mar 7, 2016 Beijing placed, with Chinese shipbuilders, shipbuilding orders of altogether 30 Valemax (for low-grade ships to transport Vale iron ore).