December 2025 ended dynamically in terms of new ship orders.
According to Clarksons data, shipbuilding groups received a total of 313 new orders, with a capacity of 8,394,912 CGT.
This number in terms of capacity has increased by 24.54% compared to November 2025 (219 orders – 6,741,273 CGT), but also compared to December 2024, when shipyards had received 231 new orders with a capacity of 4,859,071 CGT.
However, this picture does not reflect the full year, since the deals signed concerned 2,493 new ships, with a total capacity of 153,951,768 deadweight tons.
Compared to the 4,009 new orders signed in 2024, totaling 199,113,220 deadweight tons, the number of ships and deadweight tons decreased by 37.81% and 22.68% respectively.
On the other hand, January seems to be following the trend of last December, since in the first 25 days of the month approximately 250 orders (with options) have been recorded.
At the annual level, there are, among others, 448 dry bulk carriers, 256 tankers, 172 chemical tankers and 644 container ships.
By country, China signed new orders for 1,512 ships, with a total capacity of 35,785,917 CGT.
Japan signed new orders for 231 ships, with a capacity of 3,252,309 CGT, and South Korean shipyards signed new orders for 260 ships (11,848,836 CGT).
Based on these figures, China secured 61.6% of new orders, Japan 5.6% and South Korea 20.4%.
In December, orders were recorded for 97 dry bulk carriers with a total capacity of 13,604,500 CGT, 41 tankers with a total capacity of 5,115,300, 19 chemical tankers with a total capacity of 640,100, 45 container ships with a total capacity of 291,464 TEUs, 21 LNG carriers with a total capacity of 3,327,000 cubic meters.
Costs
Overall, ship prices remained stable. In December, the new ship price indices for bulk carriers and container ships remained unchanged on a monthly basis, at 168 and 115 points respectively, while the new ship price index for tankers increased by 1 point on a monthly basis, to 213 points.
In December, except for Capesize bulk carriers (180/182 KDWT), whose new prices increased on a monthly basis, the prices of other types of bulk carries remained stable.
Specifically, the price of Capesize increased by 1 million to 75 million dollars, while the prices of panamax, ultramax and handysize were 36.25, 33.25 and 26.26 million, respectively.
In tankers, VLCCs and handysizes increased by 500,000 to 128 million dollars and 49 million dollars respectively. Suezmax, aframax and panamax remained at 86, 72 and 59 million dollars respectively.
Regarding the prices of new container ships, apart from a small decrease in the price in the 22,000-24,000 TEUs and 13,000-13,500 TEUs capacities, the prices of other types of container ships remained stable compared to the previous month.
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