Chapter 869 The cost is more expensive than that of Japanese and Korean shipping companies
It was like a nuclear bomb exploding in everyone's mind, a bolt from the blue.
It takes five months and 150 days to build a Panamax cargo ship with a fully loaded displacement of 70,000 tons. This is an appalling construction speed.
Judging from the current construction methods, it is not even possible to complete the construction of all sections in five months!
This is going to revolutionize the lives of shipyards around the world!
No one raised any doubts, and the scene in front of them was the most powerful proof.
Everyone predicts the future situation of the shipbuilding industry in turn, shipowners and shipyards, without exception.
It is at least ten months earlier than the traditional construction method. This means that for the ship owner, the ship can be picked up ten months in advance and put into operation ten months in advance. This is an increase in profits for ten months out of thin air...
For shipyards, after using the flat-land shipbuilding method, the construction efficiency has more than doubled, and the time and cost have been saved year-on-year. This is a huge profit...
The flat-land shipbuilding method subverted the current shipbuilding model. This is the conclusion reached by everyone.
In fact, their predictions are somewhat conservative. In the future, after the technology of giant block construction method and flat-surface shipbuilding method matures, other supporting new technologies will appear. If the two shipbuilding methods are combined, it will take one year to build a 300,000-ton oil tanker.
Not to mention, let alone a small 70,000-ton Panamax cargo ship.
In time, the world's shipbuilding center will begin to shift to China. The energy and potential bursting out from Chinese workers will completely change the world's shipbuilding industry. In the future world shipbuilding industry, more and more ships will only be built in China.
The place, sorry, can't be built.
Many people know that Headwind Logistics is the only secondary company under the Dongfeng Group that is still losing money. The scale of losses is getting bigger year by year. What is less known is that Dongfang Shipbuilding only became profitable when it was building a large number of offshore fishing boats.
Later, after contracting the construction of large ships, huge losses began to occur...
This is because funds have been overdrawn for technology research and development, construction technology, process technology, talent team building, production area expansion, etc., so that Yao Yuan had to pass a special budget in the first half of this year to inject a large amount of funds into Directional Shipbuilding, using
To maintain the rapid expansion of directional shipbuilding and expand in all directions.
Directional shipbuilding is also based on accumulated experience.
Yao Yuan looked at Oster and said with a smile, "Mr. Oster, if Maersk Line gives us the order for three 210,000 cubic meter LNG ships, we can promise to launch them simultaneously within 12 months."
Maersk Line is purchasing three 210,000 cubic meter LNG ships this time. The full load displacement of LNG ships of this specification is about 140,000 tons. They are real big guys.
Oster felt his heart beating faster. He seemed to have seen that the LNG ships that would join the fleet in the future would not be loaded with liquefied natural gas, but US dollars that smelled of copper.
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "Of course, our quotation will be higher, but overall, the price/performance ratio is still the highest in the world."
"How much?" Oster lost his composure. He is an experienced business negotiator. He has been responsible for Maersk Line's bulk purchases in recent years. No one can take advantage of him, and he is almost never in person.
Show obvious eagerness when negotiating with opponents.
The temptation is really making it impossible to maintain peace of mind.
Not to mention him, other shipowner representatives are waiting with ears and bated breath for Yao Yuan's quotation. They all want to purchase LNG ships. Shipowners who are not purchasing now but will definitely purchase in the future also have very strong interest.
On one side are Japanese and Korean shipyards whose construction period takes at least fifteen months, and on the other side there is Chinese shipbuilding which can complete three ships in twelve months. Even if the latter is more expensive, it is very acceptable.
Yao Yuan nodded, glanced at Kim Jaehyun and others, and his eyes fell on the face of Daewoo Shipbuilding representative Li Zaiyu, and said with a smile, "Our quotation for a 210,000 cubic meter LNG ship is US$78 million, which is a fixed price."
So expensive!
This is not 2020, this is 1997!
In 2020, the cost of building an LNG ship with the same capacity is just over US$200 million. However, the US dollar at this time is completely different from the US dollar at that time.
Maersk Line has deep pockets. As long as the construction period is short enough, they are willing to pay a higher price. However, this quotation still makes Oster hesitate.
Li Zaiyu's face is very ugly. Others may not feel anything, but his feelings are very strong - he obviously feels insulted!
Why did Yao Yuan watch Li Zaiyu quote this price?
Because Daewoo Shipbuilding is the most powerful LNG ship manufacturer in South Korea, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Samsung Heavy Industries are ranked behind it.
Even if the Daewoo Group disappears in the future, Daewoo Shipbuilding will still be there, and it is the shipyard that builds the most LNG ships in the world. By 2020, Daewoo Shipbuilding's efficiency in building LNG ships has reached a terrifying level and can deliver 27 LNG ships every year!
LNG ships are high value-added ships. The profit of building such a ship is more than ten times that of other cargo ships.
China later overtook South Korea and became the country with the largest tonnage of ships built in the world. South Korea handed over the top spot which it had held for only three years. However, most of the ships built by China were container ships with relatively low added value, while South Korea undertook large-scale ships.
Part of it is an order for LNG ships.
Daewoo Shipbuilding was getting more and more prosperous by relying on the snowflakes of LNG ship orders, until the outbreak of unknown infectious pneumonia.
In terms of price, the LNG ship built by Daewoo Shipbuilding is the highest among all Korean shipbuilding companies, and the price quoted by Yao Yuan is US$5 million higher than that of Daewoo Shipbuilding.
This is where Li Zaiyu feels humiliated.
If Samsung Heavy Industries, Hyundai Heavy Industries, or other world-renowned shipbuilding companies quoted this cost, Lee Jae-woo would only snicker in his heart, because he has a price advantage.
But this is a previously unknown Chinese shipbuilding company. It is a Chinese shipbuilding company with notoriously low labor costs. How can the cost be higher than ours, and it is even higher by a full 5 million US dollars. Isn’t this a subtle statement?
Point out that the LNG ships built by Daewoo Shipbuilding are not as good as those built by Daewoo Shipbuilding in terms of construction period and quality?
This is all Li Zaiyu's inner drama, and Yao Yuan's eyes are so full of meaning.
But he couldn't refute it, because Fangfang Shipbuilding now has a bunch of new shipbuilding methods and has mastered the revolutionary technology of the shipbuilding industry...
At this time, the representative of Evergreen Shipping suddenly said, "Mr. Yao, Evergreen Shipping wants to purchase a ship, and we can accept the price of US$78 million. My condition is that Evergreen Shipping proposes the formal purchase first, and the direction of the shipbuilding request is
Prioritize building our LNG ships."
He speaks Chinese.
Yao Yuan replied with a smile, "Of course, it's first come, first served. The specifications of the LNG ship that Evergreen Shipping wants to purchase are the same as those of Maersk Line? Do you have ship design drawings?"
"Entrust everything to Direction Shipbuilding, and Evergreen Marine is willing to pay the design fee." The representative of Evergreen Marine was very generous.
Yao Yuan smiled and nodded, "That's a full service, no problem."
At least US$78 million was obtained...
Oster couldn't understand Chinese. He felt that Yao Yuan and the Evergreen Shipping representatives were talking about orders, so he quickly asked, "Mr. Yao, are you really talking about LNG ship procurement?"
"Yes, Evergreen Marine has just verbally submitted an order for one vessel, and I have confirmed it." Yao Yuan smiled and nodded.
As soon as these words came out, other shipowners who had orders for LNG ships became anxious.
Yao Yuan just made it very clear that Directional Shipbuilding can now start building three LNG ships at the same time, which means that whoever places an order first will be able to get the new ship in twelve months. There are only three places, and those who place orders later can only
Those who can line up, or look for other shipyards.
Oster regretted it. He shouldn't have thought about it for so long. Maersk Line wanted to purchase three LNG ships. The current surplus of Directional Shipbuilding was just enough to meet the demand. What an achievement it would be to receive three LNG ships at the same time in twelve months.
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The most important thing is that all ship owners know that the current natural gas market has begun to develop rapidly, and the demand for LNG ships is rising rapidly. The daily rental price of a 170,000 cubic meter LNG ship on the market has reached 50,000.
U.S. dollars, it will be 9 million U.S. dollars in half a year.
If you get the ship half a year earlier, you can earn an extra $9 million!
Compared with such a huge profit, the price difference of only 5 million US dollars is really nothing. You must know that competing for market share has always been one step early, one step early, one step late, and then later...
"Mr. Yao, Maersk Line agrees with your quotation. We want to purchase three ships and hope to give priority to building ours..." Oster said eagerly, no longer hesitating.
The representative of Evergreen Marine was not happy, and immediately started arguing with Oster in proficient English. The two of them had a lively exchange.
After a while, Yao Yuan signaled the two of them to stop, signaled for everyone who was whispering to be quiet, and said loudly, "Please move to the banquet hall. We will hold a simple LNG ship ordering meeting before dinner. We will provide the venue and necessary communication equipment. How about it?"
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The shipowner representatives are naturally in favor of it, and it is impossible for representatives of other shipyards to object, even though many of them have little hope of getting the ideal LNG ship order.
The huge convoy of visiting groups headed towards the employee canteen, where there is a banquet hall specially used for holding dinner parties and other activities.
At this time, people in China had the opportunity to come to Yao Yuan's side, even Deputy Secretary Zhang was no exception.
Zhou Liang accompanied Deputy Secretary Zhang, sandwiched Yao Yuan, and talked in the quieter garden next to the cafeteria.
Deputy Secretary Zhang asked bluntly, "Xiao Yao, a five-million-ton ship will be completed within three years. Isn't it too difficult to build a ship?"
"Leader, you give direct instructions." Yao Yuan smiled.
Deputy Secretary Zhang said with a smile, "Let's give it to our brother shipyards. Separate the ones with small tonnage and low technical content, so that you can free up your hands and feet to build the ones with high technical content."
Zhou Liang interjected, "Mr. Yao, the construction period you promised is too tight. Orders for large ships must take into account the long-term development of the shipyard. We cannot do things like opening three years and then shutting down for three years. We need to form such a ship manufacturing industry in Nangang.
An industrial chain requires the support of many long-term orders."
He seemed to be siding with Deputy Secretary Zhang, but in fact he was hinting to Yao Yuan to keep the orders in Nangang as much as possible. If anything with low technical content and small tonnage was exported, it would be US dollars, which is fucking foreign exchange.
How can you give it up and let it go!
Although he has been promoted to the Provincial Standing Committee, his first concern is the economic development of the Nangang area, and then the province as a whole.
Deputy Secretary Zhang glanced at Zhou Liang and said with a smile, "Secretary Zhou is still not big enough. How big an industrial chain can be formed by just one Nangang port is different for the whole province. Shipbuilding in the Guangdong area has been good for a long time."
The two regions have formed a complementary relationship, which is conducive to the development of the shipbuilding industry in our province."
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "Both leaders, there is no need to argue. I have already made a plan for this matter. Please rest assured, both leaders, I will definitely satisfy everyone."
"Okay, as long as you have an idea, I believe you." Deputy Secretary Zhang said with satisfaction.
Zhou Liang naturally had no objections.
The industry in the Nangang area, especially the heavy industry, belongs to the Dongfeng Group. The basic base of the Dongfeng Group in China is in Nangang. The headquarters group is in Nangang, the Academy of Sciences is in Nangang, and the three major bases are in Nangang...
Why can Zhou Liang become a member of the Provincial Standing Committee?
Just look at the economic development and economic structure of the Nangang area in recent years.
Now Nangang has become one of the modern heavy industry bases in mainland China.
Yao Yuan had already thought of the request made by Deputy Secretary Zhang, and it was unavoidable. So many top leaders of domestic shipping companies have come. Is it just a visit?
An order of five million tons is an astronomical figure, and the total tonnage of ships launched nationwide last year was not more than half of it.
Even if some state-owned shipyards that are waiting for rice to come out are crazy, they will cry and beg their superiors to help them get orders from the shipbuilding side.
As early as at the Singapore order fair, Yao Yuan's confidence to eat most of the orders in one go came not only from the new shipbuilding method, but also from the fact that he knew that the state-owned shipyards would be eyeing the fat piece of meat in his hands, so he simply did everything.
If you take it down, you won’t even pick a bulk carrier of 30,000 to 40,000 tons.
The consideration is to entrust these orders to other shipyards for construction.
It would be difficult for a five-million-ton order to be completed within three years if placed on one shipyard. However, if placed on shipyards across the country, it would only be enough to sustain life...
What Yao Yuan wants to capture are LNG ships, oil tankers and container ships of more than 100,000 tons. Most of the others will be distributed to other domestic shipyards for construction. This is not only to satisfy the government's request, but also to promote the development of China's shipbuilding industry.
Measures.
What he had in mind was never his own three-thirds of an acre of land.
Moreover, Yao Yuan has promised Zhong Weiguo that sufficient construction capacity, including shipyards, should be reserved for shipbuilding to undertake the construction task of large surface ships. This matter is a top priority.
This means that Fangxiang Shipbuilding's large ship construction capabilities are not as optimistic as Yao Yuan said to ship owners.
After all, Directional Shipbuilding is still a new shipyard in a period of rapid development and construction.