Chapter 388 Implementation

Early Monday morning.

Sioux City arrived at COSCO Shipping's main factory in the port at the appointed time.

To make an LNG ship, no matter what political strategy is adopted, it must ultimately be implemented in production. Dahua Shipbuilding's current production capacity is acceptable, but it is mainly for offshore drilling platforms, and they have been able to get a small number of foreign orders, and the Setan oilfield is still being further developed, and the production task is very tight, and there is almost no margin.

Because of this, Dahua Industrial handed over the quasi-high-end business such as FPSO (Offshore Floating Production and Storage Tanker) to COSCO Shipping, and in a few years, it can be regarded as cultivating an Asian-level marine equipment manufacturing company. It can be said that if there is any company in China that can dispatch a large number of senior shipbuilders, it is COSCO Shipping.

From the headquarters of Dahua Industrial to the factory of COSCO Shipping, it took almost 2 hours. Sioux City departed at 8 o'clock, and when I arrived at the place, it was almost 10 o'clock.

He Han, He Yuwei, Hu Jian and others heard that he was about to arrive, and they all gathered at the gate to wait.

Whether it is the competition with Changning infrastructure or the entanglement of interests in reality, COSCO Shipping relies on Dahua Industry in many places, and its attitude is naturally different.

After getting off the bus, the first thing Sioux City saw was Hu Jian's Fucheng Head.

The so-called Fucheng head is Aaron Kwok's representative hairstyle. The front face is four or six points, and the back of the head is shaved into a round mushroom shape, which can only be described as cute if you look at it from the eyes of the post-00s. And in the early 90s, it was still quite fashionable.

In China, the pursuit of fashion has always been teenagers, Su Cheng and a group of middle-aged and elderly people every day, thinking naturally aging, seeing 40-year-old Hu Jian comb such a hairstyle, I can't help but slow down.

Hu Jian is a smart and sensitive Shanghai person, and when he saw Su Cheng paying attention to his Fucheng head, he immediately turned red and coughed vigorously.

He Han and Su Cheng shook hands gently, and said with a familiar smile: "Welcome to Su Dong to inspect the work, it's really a good thing." ”

"I'm not a superior leader, Minister He, don't kill me. Good things come in pairs, what are the two good things" Because He Han is a cadre at the deputy ministerial level, Su Cheng used the minister to ridicule, which is a joke between him and He Han.

"The first good thing is naturally the arrival of Su Dong, and Peng Sheng is shining. He Han praised again, then leaned over and pointed at Hu Jian, and said with a smile: "The second good thing is that our manager Hu, the old tree smokes young branches, married a bride on the weekend, and is a graduate student who has just graduated from school, somehow he fell in love with him, you see, the hairstyle has changed." ”

The two sides are already quite familiar, and the words not only explain Hu Jian's rich city head, but also quickly eliminate the strangeness.

Su Cheng laughed, shook hands with Hu Jian and He Yuwei in turn, and at the same time "complained": "Manager Hu is newly married, why didn't you notify me, could it be Jinwu Zangjiao?"

"Don't dare to trouble Su Dong, besides, we didn't go to the hotel in particular, just held a ceremony in the factory, and the workers were happy. Hu Jian smiled happily. The middle-aged widowhood once gave him a big blow, and now he can be regarded as recovering.

Su Cheng was taken aback: "The wedding was held in the factory of COSCO Shipping? Manager Hu is really very avant-garde." ”

"The hotel is too expensive, and there is a lot of work in the factory, so we agreed not to toss, just go through the form in the workshop. Hu Jian smiled and said, "The wife who saves money is a treasure." ”

"Manager Hu mingled with the workers, which was amazing. Su Cheng gave a thumbs up. Since they first met, Su Cheng has had a good impression of Hu Jian, and at this time he has deepened his favor.

COSCO Shipping is a large state-owned enterprise at the deputy ministerial level, and Hu Jian's manager actually has the treatment of deputy department level, and his real power in the factory is even more ranked. In terms of the domestic situation, a state-owned enterprise manager like Hu Jian is already a standard official, and not only does it cost nothing to get married, but he may also be able to make a fortune. If it weren't for his strong self-discipline, he wouldn't have made this choice.

With this incident, several people started talking and laughing.

After a while, Su Cheng said casually: "Dahua Industrial has made a request to Haliburton to buy shares in Dahua Shipbuilding, and President Brown is inclined to agree. ”

"Dahua wants to withdraw from the joint venture?" Dahua's privatization was carried out very privately, and He Han really didn't know. He said in disbelief: "Haliburton is a Fortune 500 multinational company, how can it be good to cut off contact with them?"

The joint venture between Dahua Industrial and Haliburton is Dahua Shipbuilding, while COSCO Shipping and Haliburton also have joint ventures, and they were able to acquire Changning Infrastructure and COSCO Transportation, which has a considerable relationship with Haliburton's joint venture. In the past few years, COSCO Shipping has made a lot of money by getting involved in offshore equipment manufacturing through FPSO, and has been praised by the peak for several consecutive years. He Han was also a little proud of this, so at first glance, he couldn't understand that Sioux City was going to end the joint venture with Haliburton.

Su Cheng smiled lightly: "The cooperative relationship between Dahua Industrial and Haliburton will not change, maybe it will be closer. However, the joint venture Dahua Shipbuilding has indeed encountered some bottlenecks in terms of technology development, and we have begun to make technical reserves for the fourth and fifth generation offshore drilling platforms, but no matter what

Neither Dahua Industrial nor Haliburton are used to handing over technology patents to a joint venture. Therefore, now is the right time to separate. ”

He did not mention the LNG ship, but from Haliburton's point of view.

As a world-class technical service provider, Haliburton will not share important patents with Dahua Shipbuilding. This also means that their technical cooperation will be limited to a lower level. For example, the second-generation and second-and-a-half-generation offshore drilling platforms are the targets chosen by Haliburton, and when Dahua Shipbuilding achieves the third-generation drilling platform, their attitude is already very reluctant, and the fourth generation will almost certainly not continue with Dahua Shipbuilding.

Dahua Shipbuilding's technology is progressing faster than Haliburton expected, and orders for the Setan field are also tending to decline. At this time, Haliburton did have the intention of selling Dahua Shipbuilding.

He Yuwei asked: "Do you want to build four and five generations of offshore drilling platforms separately?"

"The rig is one of the targets. Our goal is different from that of Haliburton, the offshore drilling platform built by Haliburd mainly serves traditional hot areas such as the Middle East, and Dahua Industrial will not join in the fun. ”

He Han smiled and said, "The competition between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico is too fierce, and the Haliburton family has a big business, and it is impossible not to intervene." ”

He Han said to himself, seemed to understand Su Cheng's thoughts, and said: "It seems that Dahua Industrial's income in the Soviet Union is very rich, and with the current total assets of Dahua Shipbuilding, I am afraid it will be hundreds of millions." ”

The main assets of Dahua Shipbuilding are two foreign shipping companies acquired from Germany and the Netherlands, in addition to the investment made by both parties three years ago. If we talk about the total amount, it can indeed be hundreds of millions.

Su Cheng explained simply: "We are going to divest some of our assets, and the acquisition funds are limited to 10 million." ”

With the current international environment, ordinary ship orders are basically unprofitable, just to maintain the livelihood of enterprises. It will not be until 20 years later that the shipbuilding industry shows signs of recovery.

It was 1992, the ice age of the international shipping industry was in full swing, and Sioux City promptly divested most of its ordinary business, which would reduce both acquisition costs and future expenses.

For Haliburton, the acquisition was also in their interest, and the two sides had a very happy conversation.

He Yuwei heard what Su Cheng meant, and then asked about the topic just now: "Su Dong, you said that the drilling platform is one of the goals of Dahua Shipbuilding, so what else are you going to do?"

Su Cheng paused for a moment, motioned to the attendants around him to walk away, then looked at a few people, and said, "Dahua Industrial's future goal is an LNG ship." ”

"What!" Hu Jian shouted out without spitting out all his breath. The four-and-six-point Fucheng head trembled like a mushroom on a rainy day.

"LNG carriers, that's right. Sioux said it again.

He Yuwei and He Han weren't doing much, Hu Jian couldn't help but exclaim: "Su Dong, Dahua really wants to make an LNG ship?"

"The tonnage of the first ship will be a little smaller, and we expect to see the finished product in two years. "The cost of launching an LNG ship in 1992 would have been much lower than it would have been later. After 2010, when China made LNG ships again, in order to produce economies of scale, the full tonnage of LNG hulls has increased to more than 70,000 tons. It is required to be able to load 137,000 cubic meters of LNG in one go.

Such a ship would be more than 270 meters long and 40 meters wide, much larger than most aircraft carriers in the world, and would be much more difficult and expensive than smaller LNG ships.

Therefore, in 1954, the United States could make an LNG ship by changing an oil tanker at will. In 2000, China was still unable to make LNG ships, because the requirements for LNG ships were also increasing, and the increase was quite fast.

Dahua Industrial chose to manufacture LNG ships at this time, which can make hundreds of millions of dollars and generate billions of dollars in value for future generations.

Hu Jiancai didn't care about the tonnage of the ship, but asked tremblingly: "Su Dong, can COSCO Shipping participate in the construction of LNG ships?"

This was not something that could have been said by him. He Han is still standing on the side.

Hu Jian was so excited. As the most expensive ship in the world and the most difficult civil ship to build, LNG ships have always been handed over to the world's strongest shipbuilding elites to build.

"Su Dong, COSCO Shipping is very willing to participate in the construction of LNG ships. He Han also realized that if Su Cheng had no intention, why did he come here. Now it seems that this is the main purpose of his trip.

Su Cheng became serious at this time, and said calmly: "Dahua Shipbuilding will directly participate in the construction process this time, and I am here to ask COSCO Shipping to lend us some workers." ”

The export of labor services is naturally intended to give benefits. However, the training time of the shipyard workers is very long, and COSCO Shipping has a lot of its own orders.

When He Han and the others heard him say this, they couldn't help but fall silent.

…… (To be continued)