The global new shipbuilding market achieved historic growth in 2024, with three major shipbuilding indicators of new order, completions and orderbook reaching highs since 2007, 2012, and 2010, respectively. China's shipbuilding industry continues to lead global growth, setting new historical records in main indicators and consolidating its leadership position in global shipbuilding. Since the onset of market recovery, driven by both internal and external factors, the global new shipbuilding market has been on the rise, reaching new milestones. The future market trend has become a critical focus for the shipbuilding industry and its upstream and downstream sectors. Analyzing the factors that influence the new shipbuilding market, quantifying potential variables, forecasting market trends, and stabilizing the expectations of sustainable development in the shipbuilding industry have become important tasks in the research of the market and industry. It provides a reference for the stable development of the ship industry by reviewing the development of the global new shipbuilding market in 2024, analyzing the influencing factors in 2025, and predicting future trends.