{"id":378154,"date":"2026-04-14T00:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:47:14","slug":"japan-shipbuilding-orders-fall-15-despite-push-from-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378154\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan shipbuilding orders fall 15%, despite push from Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/transportation\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Labor shortage limits capacity, keeping companies from tapping robust demand<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260413N Imabari Shipbuilding\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Imabari Shipbuilding is having trouble meeting Japanese replacement demand, let alone tackling new overseas demand, its president said.\u00a0(Photo obtained by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; New contracts for Japanese shipbuilders of vessels for export fell for a fourth straight year in fiscal 2025\u00a0amid\u00a0a crushing labor shortage, impeding the government&#8217;s plan to double shipbuilding capacity by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transportation Labor shortage limits capacity, keeping companies from tapping robust demand Imabari Shipbuilding is having trouble meeting Japanese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23968,138,127,219,3592,1759,111,139,69,6848,15400,70548,11081],"class_list":{"0":"post-378154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-23968","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-despite","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-fall","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-orders","18":"tag-push","19":"tag-shipbuilding","20":"tag-tokyo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}