
Originally Posted by
yebo
no, it's not just the olympics, or china alone.
it's everything, like dubai and qatar, cars and ships, and oil rigs and oil platforms. more buildings are being built, just because there's a lot of empty desert out there to build on. more cars are being sold even if the price of gas is high. and ship building, why do you think the koreans built asia's second biggest shipyard in subic, and is still building another one in mindanao of probably even bigger capacity? shipbuilding is on an all time high. shipping is not just predicted, but definitely will double in terms of tonnage in the next 10 years. shipyards are fully booked all the way to 2015 such that if a ship gets damaged the only shipyards that will make room is the very shipyard that made it. halos pagpatungin na nila mga barko sa singapore kasi walang space sa shipyard. the slipways are full, the drydocks are full, and a ship or oil rig keel is laid every 2 weeks. oil rigs and oil platforms, too, are being built as fast as the money flows in (and do i need to tell you how fast oil money is flowing in these days?) and if oil is in demand, then they are also building oil refineries. one of the big factors that is raising the price of oil is the lack of refining capacity in the US. they're building, and that's a lot of steel! and power plants, and transmission towers, and ... all made of steel.
btw, they'rs building a suspension bridge in da nang, vietnam. passed under it 2 weeks ago. meron din yata sa ho chi minh, kita ko at a distance. mauunahan na tayo ng vietnam! sa wednesday makikita ko hanoi, the guys here said very progressive na din daw.