Zhoushan city of China was reported to have shown a surprising surge in newbuilding orders in January and February, 2013.  
According to a local industry source, shipbuilders in Zhoushan are said to win orders for up to about 60 vessels of more than a combined 1.8mDWT in the first two months of this year.  
Especially, of which, proportions for offshore vessels/facilities and high value vessels took somewhat a large part of total.
For instances, COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard was awarded orders for four Platform Supply Vessels (PSV) with one offshore Pipe-laying Vessel and one 150,000DWT shuttle tanker while Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering won $250m worth of one offshore supply platform and Zengzhou Shipbuilding was placed an order for CNY 400m ($60m) worth of two 6,000㎥ suction dredgers.