New approaches to shipbuilding capacity assessments
Accurate measurement of shipbuilding capacity is critical to inform market stakeholders
of excess capacity issues. This report presents several approaches to improve the
estimates of shipbuilding capacity. It shows how the use of average production would
allow for smoothening the proxy of capacity in the yard-by-yard production approach.
It discusses how firm level indicators, such as productivity, can also be considered.
An analysis of productivity developments for a sample of shipbuilding firms shows
that their productivity evolves in function of the market situation which, therefore,
should be taken into account in the proxies of capacity based on yard production.
Finally, the report studies how mergers and acquisitions of shipbuilding firms may
impact capacity.
Available from February 16, 2023
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