한국 조선업 5월 수주량 1위 회복…LNG운반선 발주 지속<br /><br />South Korea has reclaimed the number one spot in terms of new shipbuilding orders for the month of May, leapfrogging China for the first time in three months.<br />According to Clarksons Research on Tuesday, South Korean shipbuilders won 16 new orders including some LNG Carriers.<br />Those orders added up to 640-thousand compensated gross tons, accounting for 60 percent of total new orders worldwide.<br />China ranked second with 270-thousand CGTs, followed by Japan's 60-thousand. <br />China still has the most orders in total for the first five months of this year with over four million CGTs, followed by Korea's 2.8 million. <br />