Singapore's manufacturing output rises 7.4 pct in June

Source: Xinhua | 2018-07-27

Singapore Economic Development Board announced on Thursday that the city-state's manufacturing output grew 7.4 percent year on year in June, compared to the revised 12.9 percent increase in May.

Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output grew 5.9 percent year on year in June, compared to 11.5 percent in May.

In the first six months, Singapore's manufacturing output grew 10.5 percent year on year. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, the output growth was 11.1 percent.

On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, Singapore's manufacturing output increased 3.9 percent in June. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output fell 0.6 percent.

In a breakdown and on a year-on-year basis, the electronics cluster's output increased 7.1 percent in June, while the chemicals cluster, the transport engineering cluster, the biomedical manufacturing cluster, the precision engineering cluster and the general manufacturing industries saw their outputs up 1.6 percent, 12.4 percent, 13.8 percent, 2.7 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively.