Rebirth of Military Workers

Chapter 1049

The total tonnage of global shipping merchant ships is now about 22 million tons, and the total number of ships has not increased much over the years, only about 220.

Calculated in this way, the average tonnage of each merchant ship is about 100,000 tons.

There is even some oversupply of commercial shipping internationally.

But when this was said from the mouth of the ship king, it had to be taken seriously.

“The development direction of cargo merchant ships needs to reduce transportation costs, especially during each voyage, regardless of the ship’s depreciation fees, fuel is the biggest cost. At the same time, environmental protection requirements are getting higher and higher…” A clear opinion was given.

The 100,000-ton ore ship of Hudong Shipyard does not have much international competitiveness.

Whether it is economic performance, environmental protection, or even cruising speed, it is only at a medium level.

Although the work has been handed over, the ship king ordered two 100,000-ton container ships on behalf of Global Shipping Company, each with a price of 28.5 million US dollars.

“International trade is now stagnant due to the economic development of various countries, especially the US stock market crash last year, which has caused severe damage to the economic development of the entire world. However, the largest market should be China, which is experiencing rapid economic development…” The tour ended that evening Later, the ship king communicated with Li Qingming and others about the development and future of world ocean transportation.

The world’s largest shipping company has the largest fleet and has a very clear understanding of the development of the entire industry.

What’s more, the ship king itself is not a maritime professional. When there is no money, he started with a second-hand coal-burning ship that has been used for 28 years and has a load of 8,200 tons, and eventually became the world’s number one ship king.

It has developed to this day as a layman. If you say that there is no extraordinary ability, no one will believe it.

The late Greek ship king Aristotle Onassis, who also made his own from scratch, once said to the ship king: “Although I am earlier than you in the fleet, I am just a peanut compared to you.”

This shows Bao Yugang’s position in the international shipping industry.

Li Qingmin and others also learned about the development direction of merchant shipping in the communication with the ship king.

At present, shipping companies around the world are naturally not much better in their business when the international trade declines due to the economic crisis.

“The Chinese market is indeed in great demand, especially the export of a large number of light industrial products. However, in the international market, the growth will definitely be very large. Just like the original Greek ship king, it was because of the oil transportation after World War II. Only once became the world’s ship king.” Xie Kai nodded and said.

The rapid growth of China’s economy will continue for at least more than 30 years.

In the future, whether it is an ore ship, an oil tanker, or a container ship, there will be great demand.

This point may not be seen by the Ship King.

Not everyone can know what will happen in the future.

The whole world believes that China is rich in resources and has always been exporting basic raw materials such as ore. It is impossible to become a net importer. At its peak, it even imported hundreds of millions of tons of iron ore a year.

“So, my suggestion to you is to rely on the needs of the Chinese domestic market, first steadily and steadily, with a market, continue to make technological breakthroughs, and then enter the international market.” The ship king seriously advised everyone.

Hudong Shipyard currently has no international competitiveness on merchant ships.

As long as we can seize domestic orders, get orders, and continuously improve technology, it will be much easier to enter the global market when the time is right in the future.

“Now the global shipbuilding industry, the most advanced large-scale oil tankers, ore ships and other technologies are all mastered in Japanese and Korean shipyards. The United States and Europe are not very good in these aspects. If you have the opportunity, you can also apply to Japanese shipbuilding companies. Learn……”

For the suggestion of the ship king, others are grateful.

Zheng Yucheng didn’t agree with him.

It was not that he felt that there was something wrong with the Ship King’s suggestion, but that the Ship King did not understand their situation.

What China’s shipbuilding industry lacks now is not the order, but the technology, which is the technology that can manufacture the large ships required by the international market.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

China’s exports and imports are increasing sharply every year, so the demand for shipping by sea is naturally very large.

Even China’s domestic ocean shipping companies can only choose to order large-scale merchant ships from abroad. Why can’t we produce them in China?

“In the future, our transport ship business cannot rely on friendly orders to support it. We still need to seek more market orders to drive the development of the entire shipyard.”

After coming down, even if it was late, Xie Kai, Zheng Yucheng and others did not rest.

The meaning of the ship king is to let Hudong Shipyard first obtain orders from domestic ocean shipping companies. After all, domestic ocean shipping companies are not strong enough to deal with large international freighters with higher prices because of their lack of financial strength.

But at present, there is no market for ore ships and large oil tankers because there is almost no import business in China.

In an era when the country was short of foreign exchange, the country even sold primary ore and exported oil in exchange for foreign exchange. How could it be possible to use precious foreign exchange for imported oil and ore?

Otherwise, when the Iraqis used crude oil to pay for the equipment, Xie Kai would not helplessly sell all the crude oil.

It’s great to ship it back to the country directly.

Low-cost crude oil shipped back to the country will definitely have higher profits.

The ore from Africa will not be settled by foreign exchange when it is shipped back. Otherwise, it will be impossible to find a buyer in China.

China does not export much steel at all. Where does the foreign exchange from steel mills come from for settlement?

“It is true that we cannot rely on friendly orders to support it. If we cannot find orders, we will not even have the opportunity to continue to produce 100,000 tons of ore ships.” Li Qingmin also understands what Xie Kai said.

The problem is that at present, China has no idea where to find ocean shipping companies capable of purchasing such large-tonnage merchant ships.

Most of the goods are transported by ships of tens of thousands of tons.

“Challenging a larger tonnage carrier is something that cannot be interrupted. Especially for oil tankers, it is best to design and produce 200 to 300,000 tons of oil tankers and ore ships. Of course, this is not in a hurry now.” Xie Kai said.

In a few years, the domestic demand for iron ore and crude oil will increase dramatically.

In the beginning, there was no domestic design and production capacity for such large ships. This led to the fact that most of the domestic market demand was obtained by Japanese and Korean shipyards at the beginning.

Very large ore carriers (VLOC) with a load of more than 200,000 tons generally have a stable demand for ore in the world, and the number of VLOCs has not been much developed, and the number is basically stable.

The construction technology of these super-large ore ships is in the hands of Japan and Korea.

So far, the world’s largest ore ship is the 364,767-ton “BERGESTAHL” ore ship built by Hyundai Shipbuilding in 1986 for the Norwegian shipowner.

“The international demand is not very high.” Wang Xinghe was puzzled by Xie Kai’s meaning.

“The international demand is indeed not large, but our domestic demand is large. The ore mined in Africa cannot be consumed at all by the primary smelters established there. Eventually it will be shipped back.” Xie Kai said.

From now to the country’s large-scale import of ore, there are still ten years to come.

With more than ten years, it is completely enough to challenge such technology in China.

“The requirements for transport ships are much lower than those of warships. If we can’t even build transport ships, how can we build warships with large tonnage?” Xie Kai’s purpose is here.

Although the construction technology of transport ships is very different from that of warships, the development of transport ships certainly has some important stimulating effects on the construction of warships.

“The large-tonnage warship construction technology, even if we want to import it from abroad, no one wants to sell it to us.” Qi Zhiyuan agreed with Xie Kai’s statement.

It’s not that he really thinks it makes sense. Anyway, Xie Kai proposes a larger ore ship, at least it is also in demand by Horwath International.

Since you don’t rely on friendship orders, you have to come up with real materials.

Early the next morning, the Ship King and his party left.

Xie Kai and the others did not leave because of something.

They have to deal with some things related to warships.

In the other docks of Hudong Shipyard, 6 main structures of 053 have been completed, and they are also about to be launched into the outfitting work.

Seeing these unpainted, rusty stains, the appearance has been completed, even the main structure such as the bridge has been completed, only the 053 frigate with no radar and antenna installed, Xie Kai was disappointed.

The appearance of these warships is simply incomparable with that 100,000-ton ore ship.

The length of the entire warship is more than 100 meters, but the side width is less than 11 meters. If the height of the bridge and the main mast is not included, the entire warship cannot be compared with a huge cargo ship of 100,000 tons.

“This ship is really small.” Zheng Yucheng saw that two warships on a slipway were being built at the same time. Such a frigate was not as large as a cargo ship. He was a little disappointed.

“Satisfied, many countries can’t even produce such a frigate, right?” Xie Kai gave Zheng Yucheng a blank look. The old guy’s words were too disappointing. “Not to mention this is just a frigate for regional air defense missions.”

“Regional air defense…” Zheng Yucheng shook his head.

This thing, just install a few avant-garde, and install the Feidun-359 system to form an area air defense?

When Haihongqi-61 was installed, it had no regional air defense capability because it had a range of only 11 kilometers.

“The area air defense is done by a destroyer of the 052 level. Our original positioning is anti-ship, equipped with C-801 anti-ship missiles, at least in this respect is not bad.” Wang Hengyuan defended.

Zheng Yucheng wanted to say something, but was held back by Xie Kai.

At present, it is said that these have actually attacked the confidence of the technical team. Take your time and increase the tonnage of the frigate little by little. One day, there will be a large warship, right?

“In fact, as long as the tonnage of our 053 is increased to about 4000 tons, we can also have strong regional air defense capabilities!” Seeing that the two had no confidence in the Hudong Shipyard, Wang Hengyuan couldn’t help but rush.