News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * XSI wins chemical tanker * Huadong sells shipbuilding assets * Navig8 adds loan for STX-built TKs * Subic shipyard of Hanjin under due diligence   * Kitanihon bags 38K Chem TK duo Shipping News: * BDI breaks lowest record again * Record low capesizes rates keep Baltic index on downward sp

News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * YZJ bags four 11,800 teu boxships * STX won additional LR1 TK pairs * Sungdong nets Aframax TK deal * HMD in talks for LPGC order * SPP files petition for revival as a shipyard * DSME experienced fire again Shipping News: * Dry bulk FFA market: Happy New Year, or maybe not * Tanker Market: Unipec retains top spot in crude tan

News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * Ningbo Xinle wins chemical tanker duo * Daehan achieves 1st delivery of 2016 * Big3 yield KRW 8trn deficit last year * Korea-China ran neck and neck last year * JMU built 49 newbuildings in 2015 Shipping News: * China’s dry bulk owners to get hit by ‘wave of bankruptcies’: SISI * Dry bulk market’s crisis deepens as rates

News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * CMHI secures jack-up platform pair * SHI in exclusive VLCC talk * SPP welcomes M&A with shipbuilder * Hanjin extends contract period for boxship * Korea supports coastal ship construction loan Shipping News: * Baltic Dry Ship Index Tumbles to Fresh Record Amid China Turmoil * Tankers could

News Brief: Shipbuilding News: * China’s government-backed Wuzhou Shipyard declared bankrupt * Chinese shipyard rises to world’s No. 5 player for first time * DSME to delay delivery of four drillships * SHI-built FLNG sub hull delayed * South Korea’s stranglehold on the shipbuilding industry loosens, but only just Shipping News: * Baltic index nears all time