The bidding room was huge, and the large tables were dismantled and moved, leaving small tables and chairs one by one.

On each small table, there is a stack of brown paper bags, which are used to seal the written bids.

The bidding representatives of each shipyard sat at their small desks, like students waiting for an exam, filled out their bids, stuffed them into brown paper bags, and waited for the results.

The shipowner's representatives sat at the other end of the conference room, a bit like invigilators.

Of course, the image belongs to the image, and the bidding representatives can still talk and ask at will, and there is no problem in hand-to-hand conversation.

This situation suddenly reminded Su Cheng of the examination room where he made up the exam.

He looked left and right, and saw Rong Shangguo sitting on the chair on the right, drowsy.

"Mr. Rong. Su Cheng sat in front of Rong Shangguo, leaned sideways, and said with a slight movement of his lips: "I may have to increase the number of orders." ”

"Oh, how much?"

"The target is 10 ships, it depends. ”

Rong Shangguo raised his head, the drowsiness in his eyes was gone, and he said in a low voice: "Each bids, each takes responsibility, and cooperative production is the principle we determine." If Su Dong can do 10 ships, I have no opinion. ”

Su Cheng nodded and said, "Since that's the case, I'll decide for myself." ”

"Of course," Rong Shangguo paused as he spoke, and then asked, "Why did Su Dong increase the number of orders?"

Su Cheng smiled and said, "South Korea's shipbuilding group has a big heart. I think it's better to stimulate them. ”

Rong Shangguo asked strangely: "Which shipbuilding group?"

"Hyundai Heavy Industries. ”

"Aren't you ......" Rong Shangguo came to his senses in an instant and said, "Has the attitude of Korea Heavy Industries changed?"

"Hyundai Heavy Industries is a family-owned business, and now it seems to be full of factions. Su Cheng stopped at the point, and said with a smile: "If Dahua swallows his anger, I don't know what words will come out, the order for 10 ships, no more, no less, just right." ”

Rong Shangguo is familiar with the factional struggle within the enterprise, and he can't be more familiar with it. He shook his hand helplessly and said, "It seems that there is such trouble everywhere, and it is not easy to get an order for 10 ships." ”

"We'll cut it a little bit shorter. "Sioux City won't say anything about it here. After all, it was in the process of bidding. It's not good for anyone to listen to the hole cards.

Rong Shangguo was stunned for a moment, he could only nod, and muttered to himself in his heart: Nine and a half months will be shortened?

Sioux City naturally has its own pressure. Building a smart freighter in nine months, even if it is produced in a factory, is very stressful, and it is impossible to borrow more offshore drilling platform workers.

Compared with Dahua Shipbuilding. The level of Dahua's offshore petroleum equipment department is much higher. It is completely world-class, and has a huge production capacity, if it weren't for the large workload itself, they alone, Sioux City would dare to bid in 9 months.

Although the number of secondees will be minimized, Dahua's offshore oil equipment department does give Sioux City a lot of confidence.

As a last resort, when it can't be done, there are these thousands of skilled workers in the car. The damage to Dahua Shipbuilding will not be too great.

After thinking about the risks and thinking about the stop-loss measures. When Sioux City filled out the bidding again, it was very easy.

The first to accept the tender was the host, Singapore Shipping Group.

Their tender included five ships. A 70,000-ton oil tanker, 3 20,000-50,000 dwelling ships. There is also a small passenger liner.

Sioux City first crossed oil tankers and passenger ships, and Dahua only produced freighters for the time being. Whether it is the section used in the sectional shipbuilding method or the general section used in the giant section shipbuilding method, it is like the building blocks of the splicing ship, with certain specifications, and the requirements of different ships and shipowners are fine-tuned relative to the determined building blocks. Bulk carriers are Dahua's most prepared models. In particular, the smart freighter is the main target of the segmented workshop and the general section workshop, and there are good segments waiting to be used at this time.

3 Dexterous ships, Sioux City wrote 300 days behind the 48,000-ton ship. The requirements for this ship are relatively high. There are requirements such as combustible heavy oil, although it can be achieved through procurement, but the technical requirements are high, and the time is naturally used, even if the competition is not successful, Su Cheng does not feel a pity.

The other two agile freighters are exactly the same two 28,000-ton vessels.

Sioux City did not hesitate to write 260 days, which is equivalent to 9 months.

Such a smart cargo ship is what Dahua Shipbuilding is currently best at, large-scale production, which can reduce the pressure on Chengdu to the greatest extent.

After filling out the required information in the bid, Sioux City checked it again, signed his name, and sealed it in a brown paper bag.

Someone came to collect it, and it was also sealed and sent to the back for inspection.

There will be a lawyer from the Singapore Shipping Group who will check the contract and contract amendments, and if the requirements are met, they will be sorted by time and price to find the winning bidder.

There were dozens of shipbuilders present, and in the back room, lawyers and executives of the Singapore Shipping Group took about 20 minutes to complete the work and write the winning bidder in the report.

Sioux City, who was waiting, soon heard his name.

Two 28,000-ton smart freighters won the bid.

Sioux City smiled expectedly. Someone else's bid may be lower, but in terms of time, 2

60 days is indeed the limit.

When the host on the stage read out the name of Dahua Industrial, he wrote the names of the ships and shipbuilding companies that had won the bidding, as well as their bidding conditions, on the whiteboard before the meeting.

The 260-day bidding conditions obviously stung some people's eyes.

The bidding time for the 48,000-ton freighter next to it is 280 days, which is not much easier.

Speaking of which, the real surprise was Rong Shangguo, who also wanted to bid for the 48,000-ton freighter. But I didn't expect that time was so tight.

"Next, there is the target of the Madan Shipping Company in Malaysia. The host on the stage didn't give everyone time to discuss, and then handed out another stack of bidding documents.

This time, the bidding took the form of a hidden bid, but the bidding was carried out by the shipowner as a unit, one by one. The sign of successful bidding is not the low price, but the approval of the shipowner.

Therefore, if the shipowner cares about time, he will benchmark it with time, and if he cares about price, he will use it as a benchmark, and if he cares about both, he will analyze it by himself. All this is based on the judgment of the shipowner.

This way is occasionally greasy. It mainly depends on the management of the shipowner's company.

If you are not at ease with the shipowner's company or the country, the shipbuilding company can not bid at all. Of course, they can also actively do the work of these shipowners' representatives.

Both on-field and off-field kung fu count on such occasions, it's just how much you pay. For ships that sell for hundreds of millions of dollars, some companies disdain to deal with companies that have a bad reputation. Some companies prefer to deal with companies that have a bad reputation.

Furthermore. National and local laws are also often a matter for multinational corporations.

Dahua is not so troublesome. Sioux City, like all Chinese business owners, takes an all-you-can-eat posture, regardless of whether things can be made or not, whether they are profitable, and does not care about political issues.

This is thanks to the domestic business environment, which gives companies the freedom to participate in international bidding.

As a developing country, it is already difficult for relatively backward enterprises to bid, and if they pick and choose, it is to wait for the rhythm of being beaten backward. And how to talk about development.

Sioux City chose two more ships of about 30,000 tons on the target of the Madan shipping company. When writing the time, I hesitated a little, and one 28,000-ton one chose 260 days as usual, and the other 32,000-ton one chose 280 days. At the same time, he lowered the price of 32,000 tons a little.

A quarter of an hour later. The results are out of the cage.

Dahua Shipbuilding won the bid for a ship, but the 32,000-ton ship was handed over to Hyundai Heavy Industries, the same 260 days and lower price.

Pei Zhongyong, who was sitting in the front row, glanced back proudly.

Su Cheng smiled. Before mastering the Jumbo Section Shipbuilding Act, 9 months was the limit for shipyards, and Korean shipyards were no exception. They may be able to pass the long overtime hours with excellent design. As well as advanced equipment to increase the speed, but as long as there are any flaws, the time will be extended. As a craft and engineering operation, there are limits to shipbuilding.

Shipyard in the 50s. There is an essential difference between the shipyards of the 70s and the shipyards of the 90s, in terms of the time and cost of shipbuilding.

Dahua is only ready to accept 10 orders, and the same 9-month limit is absolutely different from the pressure of Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Hyundai Heavy Industries wants to win more than 20 orders.

In this case, it means that they have to build 20 ships at the same time. Even if Hyundai Heavy Industries has several shipyards, it is very difficult.

Orders from the past can become burdensome at such times.

Generally speaking, the price of forward orders will be relatively low, which is used to ensure the minimum profit of the shipyard, as if it were the shipyard's basic salary. The price of recent orders is high, and the profit is also high, which is the main means of making profits for shipyards.

Hyundai Heavy Industries has taken over a large number of forward orders in the past few years. It is said that it is a long term, and it will always be completed in a few years.

If they squeeze a lot of time for their near-term orders, it means pulling more workers and equipment, and occupying more docks and slipways. Forward orders are not immune to being affected.

Sioux City touched his chin and was not affected by the steady bid.

When he came across a 20,000 or 30,000-ton ship of the same model, he bid for it in about 260 days. Pei Zhongyong only grabbed one, so he didn't do such a thing.

Their design makes them more advantageous when building ships of about 40,000 tons, and the profits of 20,000 tons of ships are too low.

The two sides went back and forth, and half a day passed.

Bidding for 18 of the 32 ships has been completed.

Dahua got 5 ships inside, Hyundai Heavy Industries got 7, and the remaining 5 ships were raced by other shipyards.

Rong Shangguo got nothing.

With the time reduced across the board, his preparation was clearly inadequate.

Seeing that the next round of bidding was about to begin, Rong Shangguo straightened his waist and wanted to say something to Su Cheng.

The BP machine on Su Cheng's waist suddenly vibrate.

He immediately picked it up and looked at it, only to see a line of traditional Chinese characters written on it: August is the limit. Dahua itself is limited to 6 ships.

"Dahua itself is limited to 6 ships. Su Cheng read this sentence again, stood up with a "bang", and said, "I ask for a pause, I want to make a call." ”

"Take a 10 minute break. The host struck a small hammer.

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