What's the Industry Size???

[Martinnchee]

I'm trying to estimate how many units of new small/medium boats are being built each year in EACH Country in ASEAN (South East Asia) + China & India.

If you are able to make a rough estimation for 1 country that you know well, or for 1 type of boat that you know well (fishing boat, yacht, small passenger ferry, sailing boats, tugs, barges, trawlers, junk, pleasure crafts, etc.. anything that you might know) , then just post your wild guess here.

Hopefully we can see enough responses from all of you, so that at the end of the day, we can all see a reasonably accurate overall picture of the Industry size in ASEAN + China & India.

The reason I'm doing this is that data for these countries is extremely difficult to find, unlike data for more developed countries. I have been looking for many weeks, and trust me, it's really very difficult to find such data.

[Martinnchee]

for china, i think there are about 2,000 units of yachts (small and medium) being built annually, based on some figures i collected from individual builders

[bhabanism]

Not in India man! Still India is far behind in this field.

[Martinnchee]

from the internet, I can only find a couple of boat builders in India (Matha Marine, Craftway Engineers, Bristol Boats, Samudra Shipyard, Wadia Boat Builders, West Coast Marine). Not sure about their size, but I guess each of them build less than 20 sizeable (~>20ft) boats/yr?

[bhabanism]

hey but it's not that small. There are lots of shipyards too building cargo ships, naval ships and few passanger crafts.

[Crag Cay]

Try asking the people at the 'International Boat Industry Magasine'. It's always full of surveys about the boat industry in various countries around the world.

Their website is: www.ibinews.com