Shipbuilding industry in Jiangsu province is reported to still have showed a low level of newbuilding orders in February, 2013.
Accordingly to data released on March 4 from Jiangsu Economic and Information Technology Commission of China, shipbuilders in the region are said to win not many orders in the full month of February and they are still struggling.  
As a representative region for maritime economy in China, Jiangsu province attributes lack of orders to global decrease in newbuilding order due to a protracted slump in shipping industry.