The other side.

After more than two years of capacity expansion.

At present, the new Luzon Shipbuilding Company has formed an annual shipbuilding capacity of 700~8 million deadweight tonnage, from all kinds of inland river boats to 100,000-ton deadweight transport ships, can be produced by itself.

Especially this year, due to the application of new materials, plus precision parts and large gas turbines that can be produced by themselves, shipyards have basically achieved 96% localization of parts.

Except for some electronic equipment, other spare parts can basically be produced by themselves.

In fact, in terms of electronic equipment, shipyards are only used on civilian ships, and military ships are all biochips and biosensors, and imported electronic equipment is not used.

As the current three musketeers of shipbuilding in the world, South Korea, Huaguo, and Dongying have now attached great importance to Luzon, a newly rising shipbuilding force.

For example, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding, and Samsung Heavy Industries at this time.

These three shipbuilding giants in South Korea are also among the top 10 shipyards in the world, especially Hyundai Heavy Industries, which is the world's largest shipyard.

Although Luzon's shipbuilding capacity is less than one-fifth of that of South Goryeo.

But Hyundai, Samsung, and Daewoo did not despise the new Luzon shipbuilding company, on the contrary, they already saw it as a great threat at this time.

In particular, Samsung Heavy Industries, whose core business is the production of LNG carriers.

Park Hyo-young, vice president of Samsung Heavy Industries, is at a shipyard on Geoje Island.

However, this time he did not come to inspect shipbuilding, but to one of the ship technology research and development departments.

Park Xiaoying looked at the gas cylinder in front of him: "This is the special gas storage material developed by the Luzon people?" ”

"Yes, Vice President." Li Changtai, the chief engineer of the LNG project, replied with a solemn expression.

In fact, since Homo sapiens launched the gas cylinder containing crystal sponge in Luzon, it has attracted the attention of all parties, especially related companies.

Since Luzon is an archipelagic country, those who try to smuggle cylinders containing crystal sponges are fished and quietly disappear into Luzon.

Therefore, although many forces are aware of the existence of this technology, they have never obtained a sample.

It wasn't until some time ago that Homo sapiens established a joint venture in Siam and Malaysia, which led to some gas cylinders being smuggled out.

It was at this time that Samsung Heavy Industries obtained samples of crystal sponges through smuggling channels.

Li Changtai continued: "Vice President, this special gas storage material can store more than 500 kilograms of methane per cubic meter, which is slightly lower than LNG, but this is not the key, the most critical place is that this material does not need to maintain low temperature, or high pressure. ”

Park Xiaoying is not a novice, so she naturally knows what this means: "In other words, the cost of gas storage and transportation on the other side will be lower than that of our LNG carriers?" ”

"Yes, there is no doubt about it." Li Changtai is very sure.

As the chief engineer of LNG carriers, he is well aware of the problems of LNG ships during transportation, that is, they must maintain uninterrupted cold temperatures and seals.

If the temperature cannot be maintained, the entire ship of LNG will expand rapidly.

At this time, LNG ships have two options, either to degas and release the gasified natural gas into the atmosphere; Or wait for the inflated gas and blow the whole ship into the sky.

And this kind of uninterrupted low-temperature liquefaction transportation must be equipped with special refrigeration equipment, and ordinary refrigeration equipment has no way to use it at all.

Specialized ultra-low refrigeration equipment, non-deformed Yin tile steel storage tank, precise monitoring system, supporting power generation and distribution system (at least two sets are prepared) in an ultra-low temperature environment.

In addition, the production of LNG carriers also faces a patent problem.

Don't look at the major shipyards in South Korea and Huaguo, which occupy more than 90% of the global market share in the LNG carrier market, but they may not be profitable.

Park Xiaoying is clear about this situation, and their Samsung Heavy Industries' profit on LNG ships is only about 5% of the order price.

Taking a large LNG ship costing 200 million US dollars as an example, Samsung Heavy Industries only earns 10 million US dollars per ship.

However, Samsung Heavy Industries has to pay about 10 million US dollars in patent fees to GTT in France, which is not a one-time buyout, but a patent fee equivalent to about 5% of the order price for an LNG ship.

After all, GTT's natural gas cryogenic enclosure system technology is the core technology of the current LNG carrier, and any shipping company that wants to build an LNG ship and operate globally can only pay this money obediently.

Now when another technical route is in front of us, it is no wonder that Samsung Heavy Industries, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding and other shipbuilding companies will attach so much importance to it.

"Chief Engineer Li, can that kind of gas storage material be imitated?"

"I'm sorry, I discussed with the materials laboratory for more than half a month, and the materials laboratory said that it could not be mass-produced." Li Changtai's expression was a little frustrated.

Park Xiaoying frowned: "Why can't it be imitated on a large scale?" Is it a special raw material? Or is it a rare element? ”

But Li Changtai's next words made Park Xiaoying's heart cold:

"Judging from the results of material analysis, this gas storage material is a new material formed by biological nanostructures, and if it is a laboratory-level replica, we can make similar nanostructures, but the problem is that it cannot be mass-produced, especially low-cost mass production."

Park Xiaoying recalled the intelligence of the commercial investigation department and found that the application scenarios in Luzon, Hungsavady, Siam and other places can indeed be seen that the production of this gas storage material is very large.

The gas storage materials produced by Homo sapiens are not only used in methane carriers, but also in large methane storage tanks in ports and cities, large storage tanks for methane fermentation plants, on-board gas storage cylinders for automobiles, large gas storage tanks for thermal power plants, small gas storage cylinders for daily use, and gas storage cylinders for emergency power generation.

With such a large production volume, if the production cost is too high, it is obvious that it will not be put into commercial application so quickly.

"With the gas storage material we imitated in the laboratory, its production cost is about 2.73 million US dollars per cubic meter, and even if it is large-scale production, it is difficult to reduce the cost per cubic meter to less than 500,000 US dollars."

Hearing this cost, Park Xiaoying directly gave up.

According to the transportation volume of more than 100,000 cubic meters of LNG ships, if you want to switch to new gas storage materials, it will take about 200,000 cubic meters.

Not to mention 500,000 US dollars per cubic meter, even if it is 50,000 US dollars per cubic meter, Samsung Heavy Industries can't afford it.

They are there to make money, not to do loss-making business.

Such a high imitation cost of gas storage materials is destined to a series of shipyards such as Samsung Heavy Industries, which will not be able to imitate gas storage materials for a long time in the future.

But Park Xiaoying saw a huge crisis.

Now the methane carriers of the New Luzon Shipbuilding Company have appeared in droves in Southeast Asia and the Ceylon Ocean.

According to the data of the international shipping agency, there are currently a total of 173 methane carriers under the New Luzon Shipping Company, although most of them are dual-purpose carriers and have a displacement of about 20,000 tons, but their total tonnage has exceeded 5.3 million tons.

What's more, in Park Xiaoying's view, the threat of that kind of dual-use transport ship is even higher.

After all, when the LNG ship produced by Samsung Heavy Industries goes to West Asia to transport natural gas, it must only go by empty ship, and the empty ship goes to the destination, which is basically empty consumption in the five or six thousand kilometers of travel.

The ships of the New Luzon Shipping Company, on the other hand, can transport large quantities of goods across the Persian Gulf and back with methane.

This is equivalent to going back and forth, all in the transportation process, there is no gap period, plus there is no need for a low-temperature enclosure system, and the cost has dropped a lot.

It is no wonder that Park Xiaoying will be like a great enemy, and the transportation cost advantage of New Luzon is too obvious, which will inevitably form a huge pressure on LNG carriers.

If this problem cannot be solved as soon as possible, Samsung Heavy Industries' LNG carrier business will end sooner or later.

In fact, Samsung Heavy Industries has been affected to a certain extent.

Originally, Samsung Heavy Industries planned to lay off the Samsung shipyard in Mingzhou Port in China in September this year, but now it has been brought forward to July because the shipyard has less business.

Park Xiaoying thought about it for a long time, but decided to contact the heads of Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding and other enterprises to discuss how to deal with the threat of New Luzon.

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