At present, the 73,000-ton Panamax bulk carrier, the flagship product of Jiangnan Changxing, will be developed a new generation of 75,000-ton Panamax only two years after its launch, which can be said to be the spirit of Jiangnan people who dare to be the first in the world.
It's just that Shen Huan thought of the current Asian financial turmoil, affected by this financial turmoil, not only the performance of the shipyard will begin to decline in a year, but the freight market of the most popular Panamax bulk carrier will also suffer a heavy blow, which will also affect the entire shipbuilding industry.
At this time, the development of a new generation of Panamax bulk carriers, it is not impossible, because affected by the financial turmoil is three or five years, after a few years, the entire global ship freight market will slowly recover, and the shipbuilding industry will also pick up.
In 2003, the world shipbuilding market was rarely prosperous, and the three major shipbuilding indicators of major shipbuilding countries and regions increased sharply, forming a "new four-pole" pattern of world shipbuilding dominated by rods, foot basin countries, China, Europe and other shipbuilding countries and regions.
It is precisely because of the impact of the Asian financial turmoil that China's shipbuilding industry has risen to become the third largest shipbuilding country in the world.
Shen Huan still remembers that after 03 years, the three major shipbuilding indicators of Chinese shipyards have set the highest record in China's history, and their share of the world market has increased significantly.
The share of the European shipbuilding market continues to decline.
Because the three major indicators of shipbuilding of Chinese shipyards surpass those of European shipyards, close to or exceed the sum of Europe and other regions, thus replacing Europe as a new independent pole of world shipbuilding.
At that time, the booming shipping market prompted shipowners to order new ships to increase capacity.
Since the Asian financial crisis, the growth of world maritime traffic has been slow.
However, since 2003, the growth rate of world maritime traffic has accelerated significantly.
In the past three years, the world's maritime traffic reached 5.9 billion tons, an increase of more than 60 percent over the previous year.
The boom in the shipping market has led to a shortage of market capacity, prompting shipowners to order new ships and rising shipping rates.
The daily rent of the bulk carrier shipping market increased to varying degrees in the past three years, and the strong growth momentum in the past four years has continued.
In particular, the capesize bulk carriers, stimulated by favorable factors such as China's large import of iron ore, have continued to climb daily rents and have exceeded the highest level in history.
Thinking of this, Shen Huan felt that it might be necessary to make a suggestion to the group through Lin Miaoyu, that is, to start developing Capesize bulk carriers, because if the world has not undergone major changes after rebirth, then five years later, this type of ship will definitely make more profits for Jiangnan Changxing.
However, the construction of Capesize cargo ships is indeed very difficult for Jiangnan Changxing.
Capesize ships are dry bulk carriers with a total deadweight of more than 80,000 tons that cannot pass through the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal.
Because on many important Pacific-Atlantic dry bulk routes, such vessels have to detour around the Cape of Good Hope, so they are called capesize vessels.
It is mainly used for transporting bulk cargo such as ore and coal between intercontinental ports, and is an important market segment in the international dry bulk shipping market.
Shen Huan remembers very well that the Waigaucho shipbuilding, which is also in Zhonghai, started with Capesize bulk carriers.
In 09, the shipyard reached a record total of 6.05 million deadweight tons, becoming the first shipyard in China to break through the 6 million deadweight tonnage mark in terms of total annual shipbuilding, and ranking among the top three in the world's shipbuilding industry for the first time.
The total annual shipbuilding volume has ranked first among all shipyards in China for five consecutive years, and it has also maintained the proud record of ranking first among shipyards in China in terms of cumulative profits in the past five years, and none of the ships delivered have been descheduled.
Of course, the reason why Waigaucho Shipbuilding was able to achieve this performance has a lot to do with its geographical location.
After all, Waigauqiao Shipbuilding is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, with a wide river surface, enough water depth, and a 300,000-ton dock to allow it to build 300,000-ton ships.
At this time, Jiangnan Changxing was still on the bank of the Pujiang River, and there was no way to compare with the outer gaucho in the dock slipway, and due to the restrictions of the Pujiang River, there was no way to build a ship type of more than 100,000 tons.
It was only after the completion of the Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding Base on Changxing Island that Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding had the ability to build super-large ships.
Shen Huan still remembers that in the first complete shipbuilding year, Changxing Shipbuilding achieved the goal of delivering six ships, 1.1 million deadweight tons, and making a profit of 400 million yuan, creating a precedent for the production and operation performance of the same industry at home and abroad in the same period.
In particular, the first 300,000-ton VLCC oil tanker delivered is the largest tonnage oil tanker built since the opening of the port of China Shipping.
It's just that now, it is almost impossible for Jiangnan Changxing to build those giant ships.
But Shen Huan feels that not now, you can do a good job of technical reserves, and you can complete the construction of those high value-added ships faster and better in the future.
Of course, Shen Huan will not forget that the later Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding, referring to the part located on Changxing Island, became the holding subsidiary of Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, although the two shipyards belong to China Shipbuilding Industry, but Shen Huan still felt a little uncomfortable.
All this is due to the fact that Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding lags behind Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding in management, technology, equipment and other aspects, so China Shipbuilding Industry Group will transfer its shares to Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, and take advantage of the management and technical advantages of Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding to make Jiangnan Changxing stronger.
After all, when it came to the new Jiangnan Changxing shipbuilding base, most of the ships built were larger tonnage, and Waigaoqiao shipbuilding was obviously more experienced in this regard.
However, if these can be changed now, Shen Huan feels that history may also be changed!
Although he knows that it will be difficult to achieve this goal.
But if he didn't give it a try, he always felt so sorry for this chance to be reborn.
Seeing that Shen Huan seemed to be thinking about something, Gao Mingyue couldn't help but tug at his sleeve and said, "Shen Huan, what are you thinking?"
” Shen Huan came back to his senses at this time, seeing that everyone seemed to be staring at him curiously, Shen Huan also blushed and said, "I'm sorry, I thought of one thing just now, and I forgot about you!"
” Yang Lei smiled and said: "Shen Huan, it's okay if you forget us, but you can't forget Mingyue!"
” Uh, this guy can really tease, and now Shen Huan found that Gao Mingyue, who was sitting next to him, had two red glows flying on his pretty face.
I saw her yelling at Yang Lei: "Yang Lei, what are you talking about?"
A dog can't spit out ivory from his mouth!
” Fortunately, at this time, two waiters came up with several pots of fish, and the hot pot ingredients were boiled, and everyone hurriedly poured the fish into the hot pot.
However, Shen Huan still found that Gao Mingyue beside him secretly glanced at him again, and her eyes told him that in fact, she didn't really blame Yang Lei for saying that, she liked to listen to that sentence.