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Third Mingde Heavy Industry auction fails

The third round of auctions for bankrupt Nantong Mingde Heavy Industry has failed yesterday due to there being no bidders once again.

The starting price of the third auction was lowered to RMB812m ($121.3m) from the original starting price of RMB1.58bn ($236m).

The shipyard went into liquidation process at the end of July 2015 after a failure to restructure.

The bankruptcy of Mingde also accelerated the bankruptcy of its largest creditor Sainty Marine, which has announced its intention to quit the shipbuilding business upon completion of a restructuring.

Jason Jiang

Jason is one of the most prolific writers on the diverse China shipping & logistics industry and his access to the major maritime players with business in China has proved an invaluable source of exclusives. Having been working at Asia Shipping Media since inception, Jason is the chief correspondent of Splash and associate editor of Maritime CEO magazine. Previously he had written for a host of titles including Supply Chain Asia, Cargo Facts and Air Cargo Week.
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