China's Dagang Shipyard, a previously unknown Chinese shipyard, is suddenly attracting the attention of shipowners around the world.

It can be said that compared to the Japanese, the cost is only half the price, and the shipbuilding period is fierce and bold and aggressive, and the fierce price and construction period are fighting in the bidding field, and for a time the rising star of the international shipbuilding market is suppressed by the Koreans, who have no power to fight back.

Several Japanese newspapers and magazines related to shipbuilding and heavy industry came to hear the news, and followed and reported in a rather touted and affirmative tone about the slaughter of Director Sun in the market of less than 30,000 tons.

In the seven-day bidding stage, in the first three days alone, Dagang Shipyard started the contract for the construction of ships with a gross tonnage of 1.5 million tons and more than 50 ships of less than 30,000 tons.

In the words of Director Sun, none of these foreign shipyards can fight!

As the director of a Chinese shipyard, it is the first time that Director Sun has discovered that Chinese products are really competitive!

"There are 18 ships in Europe, 7 ships in Southeast Asia, 8 ships in South America, and even the Japanese have placed orders for 5 ships. However, the biggest order turned out to be Xiangjiang's global shipping, and the Bao brothers are really interesting!"

Director Sun smiled happily and almost jumped up with joy. But then he was a little embarrassed, and sighed: "It's just that these shipowners in Europe and Southeast Asia have really tight requirements for the construction period." In addition to the three Anthony ships in South America, by April next year, at least 400,000 tons of production capacity will be achieved. If there is an order that pays more attention to the construction period, I really don't know the bottom of my heart......"

The Dagang Shipyard now has only five slipways capable of building 30,000-ton ships, and at a rate that can be completed in the past three to four months. By April next year, the full capacity is 300,000 tons. At present, there are 800,000 tons of orders that need to be delivered by April next year. Even if all domestic orders are postponed. and then contact Hudong and Jiangnan Shipyards, plus the Bohai Shipyard, the four King Kongs, but it can barely be completed.

As for other shipyards in China, I am afraid that they really do not have the experience and ability to build 30,000-ton ships.

Director Sun is now both happy and worried, happy that orders are rolling in, and worried that business comes to the door but is not able to do it.

Today is the fourth day of the bidding meeting, and the bidding meeting of the world's largest shipping company, Maersk Group, is scheduled for this one. Judging from the catalog in hand, the project that Maersk Group has taken out this time is quite impressive. High-tech ship types such as oil tankers and LNG and large-tonnage ships have been removed. Maersk Group has taken out 15 bulk carriers of about 30,000 tons suitable for China's construction capacity in one go, which is definitely far more than in previous years.

This is somewhat affected by the price of about 30,000 tons of bulk carriers this year, maybe the original budget of Maersk Group is only eight to ten, but since the same budget can buy almost double the number of new ships, then why not?

For a large multinational company like Maersk, the budget is set at the beginning of the year, which is no different from some bureaucracy. If this year's budget is not spent, next year's budget may be reduced. Seeing that it is already the end of October, it is not only state-owned enterprises and the government that will do surprise spending. The disease of big business in multinational corporations. No less at all.

But when the good news came to Director Sun, he had to face a problem. That is, the construction period of the domestic shipyard that he can coordinate is insufficient.

If he still wants to eat these 15 Maersk ships, the construction period that can be driven will be from August next year to the earliest. It was only at this time that Director Sun regretted that he had advanced by leaps and bounds before. To be honest, instead of saving a bunch of orders for regional "ship kings", it is really more cost-effective to win the order of Maersk.

If it can become a partner with Maersk and gain the trust of the world's largest shipping company, then China's shipbuilding industry can be more useful than any small shipowner who has a good sense of praise even if it completely opens up the market.

Hu Wenhai smiled and looked at the conference catalog in his hand. He saw Maersk's large order of 15 32,000-ton bulk carriers early in the morning, but he did not remind Director Sun to restrain his firepower to grab orders, and he had his own plans.

"Director Sun doesn't have to worry, if you want me to say, our short-term shipbuilding period has not been used up. Not to mention a Maersk, I took a look, and there are 30 bulk carriers from other companies behind this order meeting, all of which are arranged until April next year. ”

Director Sun's eyes widened, and his head almost shook into a rattle: "Mr. Hu, this is a full production capacity of three million tons! All of them will be compressed to within April next year, and nearly 100 ships will be completed in half a year, how is this possible?"

Hu Wenhai didn't speak, but just took out a document from the bottom of the pile of documents in his hand and stuffed it into his hand.

Director Sun looked down, his brows were still frowning at first, and the more he looked at it, the more his brows stretched, and finally even his eyes were about to pop out.

There is nothing special about this document, it is just part of the first $300 million deal between Hu Wenhai and Mitsubishi.

The largest of these transactions was the purchase of five 50,000-ton barges.

What is a barge? Simply put, it is a mother ship, a ship that transports ships. One of the great uses of this type of ship is to transport ships.

For example, if a batch of goods from Dagang wants to be transported to Shuangqing Mountain City by water, generally speaking, it is to load goods from Dagang, transport them to Modu to unload, replace them with river barges and reload, and then go upstream to Shuangqing Mountain City.

The reason why this batch of goods had to be changed in the magic capital was because the ship types of sea and river transportation were different, and sea ships could not enter the Yangtze River.

But with a carrying barge, it is completely possible to load the cargo onto an inland barge and then load the barge onto the carrying barge. In this way, the barge is loaded with this loaded inland river barge, and there is no need to change ships in the trouble when it sails to the mouth of the Yangtze River, as long as the loaded inland river barge is unloaded.

It's a solution full of industrial violence......

Of course, since the carrier barge can be used to load the entire ship, of course, it can also be used to load the ship sections.

The barge comes with its own power and gantry crane. It is not only a necessary means of transportation for the shipbuilding system of the distributed general section. It is also the basis for the future production of semi-submersible and dock ships. In the future, dock landing ships and amphibious landing ships will be shipped. These are all front-end technology points.

Matched with the barge, it is a batch of 10,000-ton gantry cranes and 10,000-ton load flatbed trucks. The function is very simple, that is, to transport the 10,000 tons of finished tons to the port next to the barge.

There may not be many shipyards in China that can build 30,000-ton ships, and it is possible to build shipyards with 10,000-ton segments......

That's it.

Director Sun has long had a detailed understanding of the giant general section shipbuilding method, but he has the impression that the only way to carry out this general section shipbuilding method is to build a large number of sectional workshops near the general assembly plant or even inside the final assembly plant. Good technology is good. However, it also requires significant infrastructure investment and lead time to apply.

However, if a large number of carrying barges are in hand and the transportation problem of the giant section is solved, then all the shipyards along China's coast will be mobilized to digest the production capacity of just three million tons, which is simply like playing.

With this Dinghai Divine Needle, Director Sun's heart immediately calmed down.

The sad faces of Director Sun on their side all fell into the eyes of the Koreans.

Lee Jae-yong and the others glanced at each other and couldn't help laughing. In the past few days, Koreans have deliberately released water, and even took the initiative to pry their old customers to run to the Chinese, and then frequently used the advantages of industrial scale to squeeze the short-term construction period of the Chinese. Count it up. The short-term tonnage of the Chinese even exceeds 800,000 tons, and the Chinese are even mobilized throughout the country. That's the limit of this ability, right?

"Today there are 15 bulk carriers of Maersk, and now the Chinese should regret the green intestines, right?"

Samsung's Park Jae-kyung smiled, rubbed his hands and said: "Maersk's business, our Samsung is going to be decided! Everyone, in order to combat the arrogance of the Chinese, our Samsung suffered heavy losses a few days ago and lost many orders from old customers. In order to make up for our losses, Maersk's 15 bulk carriers will give us three stars, right?"

Lee Jae-yong flipped through the catalog of today's meeting, found the list of bidding projects of Maersk, and glanced at it and soothed his brows. It seems that Park Jae-kyung is not all incompetent straw bales, at least he seems to have a little bit of eyes in standing in line and self-knowledge, no wonder he can achieve the position of business manager of Samsung Heavy Industries. Fifteen bulk carriers may seem like a lot of business, but—

"Then our Samsung wants orders for these three Panamanian tankers from Maersk, who has an opinion?"

Lee Jae-yong looked around, and no one disagreed, at least on the bright side. The agreement reached by the previous five companies will distribute the share according to the size of the contribution of this operation. As the temporary leader of South Korea's five heavy industry enterprises, Hyundai Heavy Industries should take the biggest share. The profit of three Panamax tankers is much higher than that of 15 30,000-ton bulk carriers.

Kim Eun-hee nodded with an ugly face, and said helplessly: "Then we Daewoo hope to get these three 4000TEU container ship orders, please!"

Daewoo is still a lot worse than Samsung, although Kim Eun-hee's contribution is obviously greater than Park Jae-kyung's intelligence support for this operation, but Daewoo's own shipbuilding ability is one level weaker than Samsung. The 15 bulk carriers were beyond Daewoo's short-term construction capacity, so they had no choice but to give up to Samsung.

"Today is destined to be a stage for us Koreans, and I have prepared the news channel. Li Zaiyong was confident and said categorically: "The Chinese only have a long-term construction period in their hands, and we don't have to fight with them for a price war." The short-term construction cost increase we gave will definitely be seriously dissatisfied with Maersk and other shipowners, and we can spread rumors that the low price of the Chinese is a conspiracy of the Japanese to withdraw from the low-end market, and it can only be seen that it cannot be eaten. The Japanese want the Chinese to force us Koreans to death, so that other shipowners can only go to the Japanese to continue to buy high-priced goods! This is all a conspiracy of the Japanese shipbuilding industry! The Chinese simply do not have much shipbuilding capacity, and they have no price to disturb the market! In the end, it is not the major shipowners who suffer losses?"

Li Zaiyong said with a proud smile: "In this way, the Japanese will definitely force the Chinese to continue to collect orders for their own business reputation." When the time comes, it will either be impossible to deliver the goods when the Chinese expires, and it will not be able to mix with the international shipbuilding market in the future, or it will turn against the Japanese and the two alliances will break down......"

"Hey, I think now that maybe what Manager Jae-yong said is the truth!" Park Jae-kyung clapped his hands gently. An expression of admiration.

Kim Eun-hee and Hanna Hanjin glanced at each other. I vaguely feel that this is exactly what it should be!

Bernhard was the head of the Maersk trade fair. With the largest order in hand, I naturally enjoyed the most solemn treatment. The morning of the fourth day was a special bidding session for Maersk Group, which attracted the attention of all shipbuilding companies present.

Bernhar was a Dane who inherited the muscular body and dazzling blonde hair of the Vikings. When he stood on the podium, the hall fell silent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I ...... on behalf of the Maersk Group"

As Bernhar's voice rang out, everyone sat up straight. The Koreans on Lee Jae-yong's side are gearing up. Waiting to eat the sumniest feast of this trade fair; the Japanese seem to have some kind of plan; the Southeast Asians look left and right, they have their own traditional areas of advantage; the Europeans are absent-minded, they have retreated from the vast majority of shipbuilding; the Americans, the world is not the era of three free ships in one day!

The Chinese are like newborn babies curiously joining this fully mature market, breaking the already stable distribution of interests with a recklessness that scares everyone without regard for the rules of the industry. Director Sun, the people behind Director Sun, they don't know how far they can go, and they don't know how much energy they have in their hands and what kind of changes they will bring to the world.

If it were said to the Chinese in the eighties that the world would respect China, they would gladly answer: of course. That's what we're working for!

But if anything, China will become the second most powerful country in the world in their hands. It is even stronger than the Soviet Union in the past! I am afraid that 99 percent of people will laugh in embarrassment and take it as a good-natured joke.

"Next, I announce the first package of the Maersk Group's tender, three Panamax oil tankers, please have a letter of intent to prepare the bid. ”

Bernhall's speech didn't take up much time, and after about three or five minutes, the first target of the day was thrown.

Looking at the enterprises that got up to submit bids one after another in the venue, Director Sun was inevitably a little restless. He took advantage of his neck to watch Bernhar's more and more bids in his hand, and finally couldn't help but sigh in frustration: "Three 65,000-ton Panamax oil tankers, the profit is equivalent to 15 23,000-ton bulk carriers." It would be great if we could win this business!"

"There will be that day, and it won't be far off. Hu Wenhai closed the document in his hand and said in a low voice: "Director Sun forgot that as long as we take a loan of 1 trillion yen, we can completely achieve the construction capacity of all ship types below 100,000 tons." When the time comes, we will take the entire market below 100,000 tons from the Koreans!"

"Hey, I really hope that day will come soon!" Director Sun listened to the enthusiastic airship, was fascinated, thought about it, and lowered his head to count how big the market was for ships below 100,000 tons at this order meeting.

The two of them were talking for a while, and the tender had been submitted. Bernhall began to unpack the labels, then chanted in English with a Nordic accent.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, April 1986, $240 million. ”

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, April 1986, $280 million. ”

Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries, May 1986, $250 million. ”

Hyundai Heavy Industries, April 1986, $220 million. ”

……

"Huh?"

Lee Jae-yong almost jumped up like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, looked in the direction of Japan incredulously, and frowned deeply.

How can Lee Jae-yong not be surprised that the Japanese offer is close to Hyundai Heavy Industries' bid, and the quotations of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hyundai Heavy Industries are only 20 million yuan? Why is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries able to come up with such an offer? Is this a way for the Japanese to reduce costs, or is it fighting a price war with this hurting people?

I am afraid that I will not be able to get an answer to this question for a while. But if Hyundai Heavy Industries doesn't know what has changed, how to formulate a strategy for the next bidding?

Lee Jae-yong subconsciously looked in the direction of the Japanese bidding group.

At the same time, everyone in the bidding group of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan respectfully saluted Masataka Yamazaki, especially the main person in charge of the bidding group, the head of the business section, Endo, was so excited that he couldn't stop asking in a low voice: "General manager, is this really possible? Such a low price." Our cost ......"

"This was approved by the president himself. You just carry it out!" Masataka Yamazaki kept a straight face. But there is a smile in his eyebrows.

"I'll tell you a little bit of news, this is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' top trade secret!"

"Hey!" Endo hurriedly drove everyone around him away, leaving him and Masataka Yamazaki in this empty seat.

"The company has decided to hand over a batch of non-critical parts to Chinese companies for production. The best thing is that the production equipment is still bought back by the Chinese! With cheap products from the Chinese, our costs can be reduced! But we can't let the shipowners know that we use Chinese-made parts, understand?"

"Great! Can the quality of Chinese products be guaranteed?" Endo's eyes lit up, but he was still a little puzzled.

"Don't worry, we Mitsubishi will send engineers to teach Chinese how to produce quality products." ”

"Then I'm relieved, worthy of Yamazaki Executive, thanks to you this time!" Endo nodded again and again, and lost no time in sending the sycophants up.

Not to mention the glamour of the audience, after two rounds of bidding, Bernhar finally selected Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' offer. Although it is still about 10% higher than the price of Hyundai Heavy Industries, this premium is for Maersk. It's just a recharge of faith. After all, it is the leader of the world's shipbuilding industry, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. It's worth one or two million.

After finalizing three tankers, Bernhar began bidding for the next bid. This time, 15 32,000-ton bulk carriers have stirred the attention of all shipyards. For China, which is suffering from foreign exchange hunger, the 15 bulk carriers with a total price of more than $300 million are all cost-effective to lose money! After all, all the money spent on domestic purchases is renminbi, but what is recovered is the US dollar!

$300 million in 1985 -- that's one-tenth of China's foreign exchange reserves for the same period!

Having said that, the more than one million tons of orders that Director Sun is currently holding in his hands have topped half of the current foreign exchange reserves of China's state treasury. If we can win the Maersk order, and the final order volume can exceed 3 million tons, then China Shipbuilding Corporation will be enough to double China's foreign exchange reserves by June next year!

"Made, fight!" Director Sun's hands were a little shaky, pinching the bids that had been filled, quite a bit of a sluggish and cold spirit, and embarked on the road of submitting the bids.

Bernhar had no idea what the order meant to the Chinese, but it was just a slightly unusual one of the countless tenders he had opened over the course of his career.

However, in order, the first thing he sang was the tender submitted by a Japanese shipyard.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, June 1986, 450 million. ”

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, August 1986, 500 million. ”

"Ishikawajima Harima ......"

Hearing the Japanese offer, Park Jae-kyung couldn't help but laugh in a low voice. Mitsubishi's sudden price reduction made him nervous, thinking that the Japanese saw that the Chinese could not withstand it and wanted to personally fight a price war with the Koreans. At present, it seems that the Japanese don't know why they suddenly took Hyundai Heavy Industries once, but when they came to Samsung Heavy Industries, they withered back.

Hey, is it really destiny at Samsung?

"Samsung Heavy Industries, March 1986, 380 million. ”

Park Jae-kyung straightened his back, looked forward to himself, and had a posture of giving up his own people, as if the orders for Maersk's 15 bulk carriers were already under his control.

The offers of several other South Korean heavy industry companies are of course not as competitive as his, not to mention several shipyards in Southeast Asia, their advantage is not in the volume-based bulk carriers, it seems that Samsung Heavy Industries has really won the game.

Bernhar finally picked up the last bid and sang it aloud.

"Dagang Shipyard, March 1986, 350 million. ”

"Assi—"

Park Jae-kyung looked in the direction of Dagang Shipyard with an incredulous expression, and his eyes looked as if they were about to fall out. The angry swear words are held in his mouth, but he is incomprehensible.

Chinese, where do they get the short-term shipbuilding period?

While several other South Korean heavy industry companies are dignified, China's low-end shipbuilding capacity is bottomless, and the cost of Japan's high-end shipbuilding industry has fallen.

South Korea's shipbuilding industry, what's next?

A chill covered the hearts of Koreans. (To be continued.) )

PS: I slept at least 12 hours a day, but I was still weak, so I thought the blood should be replenished for such a long time......

I'm a little worried about my body......