Chapter 873 Why don't you give me foreign exchange
All orders received by Fangfang Shipbuilding this time were from overseas, with a total price of just over 3 billion US dollars. In other words, Fangfang Shipbuilding has so much foreign exchange that any province would be envious of it, and it is basically impossible to spend all the foreign exchange in hand.
of.
The most shocking thing is that all ship owners paid 30% of the advance payment to Fangfang Shipbuilding within three days after the contract was signed. In other words, Fangfang Shipbuilding had US$900 million in its foreign exchange account...
In fact, it was more than 900 million at all, because the day after Khalid of Nakirat Shipping returned to Qatar, the company paid all the money to Direction Shipbuilding, 1.32 billion US dollars...
Khalid was so generous not only because there was so much money in their account, but also because Najirat Shipping itself is one of the carriers of Oriental Petroleum, has a cooperative relationship, and is very aware of the situation in the Sedan Oilfield. They simply
He was not afraid of defaulting on the shipbuilding project. Moreover, because of his relationship with the UAE royal family and as a member of the Qatari royal family, Khalid had great trust in Yao Yuan.
Considering that the construction of the third branch of the shipbuilding industry (a specialized LNG ship building plant) will require a large amount of funds in the short term, and a lot of equipment needs to be purchased internationally, after discussions between Khalid and other senior officials of Nakirat Shipping,
I decided to pay all the money in advance.
All in all, the U.S. dollar is not the worst thing for Fangxiang Shipbuilding now. On the contrary, there are no funds in domestic accounts, and the money has been invested in expansion, process research and development, personnel training, etc.
To build so many ships, a large number of workers are needed. LNG ships not only require high-level welders, but also other high-level work types. The demand for other workers is greater. This means that there must be enough manpower to ensure that the work is completed on time and in quantity.
Delivery of ship.
Therefore, Directional Shipbuilding must complete the recruitment of 3,000 workers before the Spring Festival and 5,000 workers in 1998. Before the end of this century, it must establish a team of 30,000 workers, including senior workers and mid-level workers.
The ratio of workers to junior workers must reach 1:2:3, which is referred to as the one-two-three standard for the worker team.
Without such a strong team of workers, how dare Yao Yuan take so many orders? Just dream.
The grand plan proposed by Yao Yuan is that after the shipbuilding base on Donggan Island is fully completed, Directional Shipbuilding will become the largest shipyard in the world, a super shipyard with more than 50,000 employees.
It's just that no matter what the future construction goals of Directional Shipbuilding are, the special treatment given to Minjiang Shipyard and Huangpu Shipyard at this moment has indeed aroused dissatisfaction with other shipyards, especially those in the domestic deputy departments.
A serious shipbuilding giant.
None of the other shipyards announced next have the same treatment as Minjiang and Huangpu, and in terms of tonnage, Minjiang and Huangpu have the most tonnage. This makes Dalian Shipbuilding, Jiangnan, and Wuhan
It is difficult for the three major shipyards to accept this.
However, everyone is quite satisfied with the price offered by Directional Shipbuilding. Even if it is a ship that has never been built, based on the market price, the price offered by Directional Shipbuilding is relatively high.
However, the larger the shipyard, the stronger the demand for foreign exchange. To carry out technological innovation and development, the factory needs to introduce a variety of equipment from abroad, which requires the use of foreign exchange. Without foreign exchange, nothing can be bought. Waiting for superiors
It will take years and months to allocate the foreign exchange quota, and it will not be very large.
The country's management of foreign exchange is now less strict than in previous years. Some companies have the autonomy to retain and use certain foreign exchange. Some of the management and approval rights of foreign exchange have also been delegated to provinces, such as large state-owned shipbuilding companies such as Dalian Shipbuilding and Jiangnan Shipbuilding.
Of course the factory has its own foreign exchange account.
As for how Fangxiang Shipbuilding pays US dollars to domestic companies, that's too simple. Fangfang Shipbuilding's brother companies have a lot of overseas business, and you can just find any company to act as an agent to complete this operation.
Amid strong opposition, Xiao Jiabing announced the completion and clarified that the second batch of 3.5 million deadweight ton ships will be subcontracted in six months. He said that the shipyard that undertakes the direction shipbuilding order can choose to reject the order, but it will not accept the order.
The ship, cost and other conditions are not allowed to bargain.
In short, the situation is like this. If you don't accept it, you can quit. If you accept it, you must strictly follow the shipbuilding requirements of the direction.
Just so domineering.
Yao Yuan knows that this kind of thing must be cut quickly. The more space is given to everyone to discuss, the longer it will take. The most critical thing for these orders received by Xiangxiang Shipbuilding is time. The commitment is better than that of Daewoo Shipbuilding, Samsung Heavy Industries, and Hyundai Heavy Industries. The three world rankings
The top three shipbuilding companies have much shorter construction periods, so they must race against time.
After determining the subcontractors, Dongfang Shipbuilding and Chunfeng Academy of Science and Technology will also provide technical guidance and process improvement to each shipyard. Equipment should be imported if it is necessary, and the shipyard should be upgraded if it is necessary. These things alone will take a lot of time.
Go for quite some time.
As soon as the meeting ended, except for Dalian Shipbuilding, Jiangnan Shipbuilding and Waigao Shipbuilding, the three heavyweight shipyards expressed strong dissatisfaction, the directors of other shipyards went to the corresponding docking personnel to sign the contract.
They are more anxious to sign the contract the day before, get the money the day before and start construction the day before. They are more anxious than the shipbuilding industry. Especially for medium-sized shipyards facing development bottlenecks, their mood is the most urgent.
Accepting subcontracting orders for shipbuilding is not only a valuable order, but the most important thing is the transfer of advanced technology, which is free! You only need to use the funds for upgrading and transformation to solve the hardware problems.
This is simply impossible in the international market.
Of course, there is no shortage of shipyards that do not want to make progress but come just for order profits. This is one of the key points of the shipbuilding review.
Therefore, when Sun Yimin, Hu Bo, Jiangnan Shipbuilding General Manager Li Huai and Waigao Shipbuilding Zhou Yufei came to Xiao Jiabing's office to ask for an explanation, Xiao Jiabing asked them to sit down and said with a smile, "One of the focus of our inspection is each shipbuilding company
The factory’s development plan is not a one-and-done deal.”
Xiao Jiabing was well prepared. He took out two documents and put them in front of everyone. He sat down and said, "The development plans of Minjiang Shipyard and Huangpu Shipyard. Mr. Li, Minjiang Shipyard is the director-level department of your shipbuilding industry."
Enterprise, you should know something about it."
"Director Fang of Minjiang Shipyard has been seeking opportunities to carry out technical transformation in the past two years. Their profits are very good, but they suffer from backward production technology and equipment, missing many foreign orders, and they do not have their own foreign exchange account.
, the enterprise development has encountered a bottleneck."
After a pause, Xiao Jiabing said, "We have conducted a comprehensive inspection of the Minjiang Shipyard for more than half a year. A few days ago, we signed a long-term cooperation agreement. Our Southern Industrial, Directional Shipbuilding and Chunfeng Academy of Sciences will support the Minjiang Shipyard.
Starting from both the technical and financial aspects. Based on the content of the agreement, this time we gave some foreign exchange to Minjiang Shipyard so that they can purchase some urgently needed equipment from internationally."
It turns out that Chen Cang was hiding in secret!
Xiao Jiabing said with a smile, "Let me talk to you about Fang He and the Minjiang Shipyard. If you still think that this foreign exchange is not worth giving them, we can talk again."
Several state-owned enterprise bosses could not deny it in their hearts, but they still behaved respectfully and listened attentively in front of Xiao Jiabing.
Xiao Jiabing didn't care about this and talked about it.
Li Huai, the only deputy ministerial-level enterprise leader, listened and read the development plan of Minjiang Shipyard while holding back his anger. To be fair, the development plan was well done and the outlook for the future was also very good. However, in
It seemed to Li Huai that Fang He, who was known as the anti-bone boy, was deliberately highlighting his differences again.
Minjiang Shipyard is little known. There are so many division-level units under the shipbuilding industry, including department-level building and repair factory directors. Jiangnan Shipyard is even a deputy-ministerial-level unit of the enterprise. If Li Huai is transferred to the local government, he will be the deputy provincial governor.
level cadre.
But there is another little-known fact. Minjiang Shipyard has been doing well since its establishment. It first built torpedo boats, gunboats and some military auxiliary ships for the navy. The navy received good reviews. The torpedo boats it built participated in the Xisha naval battle. The products are
Passed through the baptism of fire.
Later, Fang He served as the director of the Minjiang Shipyard, which was in the era of military-to-civilian transformation. To be honest, there were very few companies that could successfully complete the military-to-civilian transformation. The only one that survived to the future was the Changhong Factory.
The transformation of Minjiang Shipyard was very successful. After there were no orders from major naval companies, Fang He first targeted fishing boats, ranging from offshore fishing boats of 100 tons to offshore fishing boats of thousands of tons. He went door to door.
To talk.
At this stage, Fang He’s positioning for Minjiang Shipyard is to survive.
It was precisely because Minjiang Shipyard undertook the construction of a large number of fishing boats that it established a relationship with Jichai General Factory and entered Yao Yuan's sight.
One thing that impressed Yao Yuan the most was that one time when he was inspecting the Jichai General Factory, Fang He actually came to see a customer for a fishing boat of more than 100 tons. He asked Jichang as the director of the Minjiang Shipyard.
Diesel General Plant can give this customer a lower price...
The reason why he did this was because the customer said that if you can let Jichai General Factory sell me the 190 diesel engine at a 5% discount, I will purchase fishing boats from you.
It’s just a fishing boat of over one hundred tons!
Fang He did it without even thinking, because if he could get one more order for a fishing boat, the factory would be able to run for a few more days, and if there was work, there would be food to eat!
Will Jiangnan Shipyard do this?
Do they build fishing boats?
This incident left a deep impression on Yao Yuan. He believed that with such a leader who has a clear understanding of reality and is down-to-earth and hard-working, Minjiang Shipyard will definitely get better.
If that was just the case, Yao Yuan probably thought that Fang He was just a down-to-earth and hard-working leader. The subsequent development was beyond Yao Yuan's expectation.
In 1994, with the help of the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Minjiang Shipyard, under the leadership of Fang He, safely passed through the previous five difficult years. The company turned losses into profits and had more and more funds in its account.
If it were a different leader, it would be the safest choice to continue to receive orders for fishing boats and expand the scale of operations, because at that time, the domestic fishery industry entered a period of rapid development, and the fishing boat market was once in short supply.
However, at this time, Fang He actually decided to gradually reduce domestic fishing boat orders. Most people in the factory opposed it. It was Fang He who relied on the prestige he had established in those years to push forward. In the end, Minjiang Shipyard only received 1,000 tons of orders.
It has also shifted its focus to the international market and received many orders from Japanese and Korean fishing companies.
It was originally thought that Minjiang Shipyard had declared a successful transformation at this point, transforming from a medium-sized shipyard that built small and medium-sized military ships to a shipyard that specializes in building large and small fishing boats.
At this time, Fang He released another satellite...