PEER REVIEW OF THE GERMAN SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY PEER REVIEW OF THE GERMAN SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY FOREWORD This report was prepared under the Council Working Party on Shipbuilding (WP6) peer review process. Delegates discussed a draft at the WP6 meeting on 10 November 2015. No substantive comments were received and delegates agreed to declassify the report. The report will be made available on the WP6 website: http://www.oecd.org/sti/shipbuilding. © OECD 2016 Cover photo: © MEYER WERFT/M. Wessels. Applications for permission to reproduce or translate all or part of this material should be made to: OECD Publications, 2 rue André-Pascal, 75775 Paris, Cedex 16, France; e-mail:
[email protected]. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. 2 PEER REVIEW OF THE GERMAN SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY AND KEY POINTS ................................................................................................................... 4 Industry features .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Structural change ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Markets .......................................................................................................................................................