The fact that Homo sapiens poached shipbuilders for the New Luzon Shipyard was not kept secret for long, and it was soon known to the head of Samsung Heavy Industries at the Minnesto shipyard.

For this matter, although Samsung Heavy Industries is hostile to the new Luzon shipyard, the problem is that they have no way now.

After all, it was Samsung Heavy Industries itself that wanted to close the Mingzhou shipyard and lay off the employees here.

Employees can't find their own way out now, and Samsung Heavy Industries still has to oppose it, right?

If Samsung Heavy Industries really does this, then it must continue to maintain the Mingzhou shipyard, which is obviously impossible.

Therefore, Samsung Heavy Industries can only choose to watch this matter coldly, and other things cannot be done at all.

The other side.

Malaysia has reorganized its internal shipping business this year and formed a shipping group, which is actually to integrate and reorganize the shipping resources within Malaysia by Homo sapiens.

The newly formed Malaysia Shipping Group currently has 8 LNG carriers (670,000 dwt), 7 oil tankers (830,000 dwt), 32 container ships (2.32 million dwt), 145 bulk carriers (1.22 million dwt) and 86 other vessels (410,000 dwt).

Malaysia, which ranks among the top 10 LNG carriers in the world, has gone against the norm this year, and has sold 3 of them instead of increasing the shipbuilding demand for LNG carriers.

The reason why this is the case.

The fundamental reason for this is that Malaysia Shipping Group has given shipbuilding orders to New Luzon Shipbuilding Company, especially the eight new methane carriers, and the orders have been eaten by New Luzon Shipbuilding Company.

7/23/21.

This year's No. 6 typhoon "Fireworks" traveled all the way north to Dongying, avoiding Southeast Asia.

A transport ship carrying 80,000 tons of methane departed from the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula in Malaysia and arrived at Yangcheng Port.

This methane carrier is the first methane carrier delivered by New Luzon Shipbuilding Company to Malaysia Shipping Group, and it is also the first voyage of this vessel.

Zhao Xingmin, the manager of the Lingnan branch of PetroChina, who is in charge of the natural gas unloading port, is in business negotiations with Zhu Ling, the business manager of the Malaysian Shipping Group.

He took the shipping schedule quotation form in his hand and found that the recent shipping quotation of Malaysia Shipping Group was okay.

Recently, the price of a standard LNG carrier (100,000 tons of transport volume) is US$65,000 per day, and the average shipping time from Malaysia to Yangcheng Port is about 5 days, and the transportation cost of a standard LNG ship is US$325,000.

The price of Malaysia's methane carrier (80,000 tons of capacity) is 50,000 US dollars per day, which is slightly cheaper.

However, Zhao Xingmin knows the details of the other party.

"Manager Bamboo, can the price be cheaper? How about 45,000 a day? ”

He offered this price, in fact, because he knew that the transportation cost of methane carriers was lower than that of LNG carriers, after all, there was no need to maintain ultra-low temperatures.

But Zhuling smiled and shook his head: "Manager Zhao is joking, 50,000 yuan a day is already a friendly price, and other companies can't get this price, not to mention that you also have benefits." ”

The two sides talked for more than half an hour, but the bamboo bell still did not enter the oil and salt.

Fortunately, Malaysia Shipping Group is more sincere about long-term contracts, offering a price of 42,000 US dollars per day, but the contract is for 3 years, and it is required to run at least 120 days per year.

Zhao Xingmin has no opinion on this, he asked Malaysia Shipping to cooperate this time, and it was also according to the instructions of the headquarters to lock in a part of the shipping schedule of Malaysia Shipping to cope with the possible explosion of freight rates in the future.

In fact, this is also a common means for large energy companies to avoid risks, once the short-term lease encounters an emergency, there may be a situation where the freight rate will explode several times, and the long-term contract can ensure the stability of transportation costs.

Finding Malaysia shipping cooperation is not a whim of PetroChina, Sinopec and CNOOC, but a choice made as a last resort after full consideration.

Not only Malaysia Shipping, but also New Luzon Shipping, has also signed a lot of long-term contracts by the three giants.

After Zhao Xingmin signed a long-term transportation contract for three methane carriers, he and Zhuling and others observed the Jiaoshi methane carrier in the port.

Unlike conventional LNG carriers, methane carriers do not have a huge metal hemispherical structure on their decks, but rather very straight container decks.

Similarly, the gas pipeline for unloading methane is not the same as LNG carriers, and does not require cryogenic maintenance equipment or secondary gasification equipment.

The LNG natural gas storage tanks in the port are all low-temperature liquefied storage, and the stored low-temperature liquefied natural gas should be transported to users, and a safe heating and gasification equipment should be set up in the middle to avoid the gasification of liquefied natural gas at once and support the explosion of gas pipelines.

However, methane carriers export gas, which must be liquefied using special cryogenic liquefaction equipment before it can be fed into the port's gas storage tank.

This is a bit of a hassle for the LNG port, but fortunately, PetroChina has taken this situation into account and has added a cryogenic liquefaction plant at the port.

Fortunately, the shipping quotations of Malaysia Shipping and New Luzon Shipping are relatively low, and after offsetting the two, there is no increase in costs.

Without adding too much cost, who doesn't like it.

This is one of the reasons why China's energy giants will look at Malaysia Shipping and New Luzon Shipping.

If it weren't for the fact that the New Luzon Shipbuilding Company's orders had been scheduled for 24 years, and Huaguo had its own LNG shipbuilders, the three energy giants would have wanted to order more than a dozen methane carriers to supplement their own transport fleets.

It's a pity that this kind of behavior is obviously somewhat "incorrect".

In addition, Homo sapiens' large-scale gas storage tank technology has also attracted the attention of major energy giants, after all, the storage of liquefied natural gas is too dangerous, and the maintenance cost is also a problem.

Similarly, shipping companies all over the world are actually very interested in the methane carriers of the New Luzon Shipbuilding Company, but at present, their production capacity has been eaten by Malaysia Shipping and New Luzon themselves, and other companies cannot arrange production capacity at all.

However, many shipping companies have begun to think about whether to continue to purchase LNG ships at this time.

After all, this kind of methane carrier, which is called the "new Luzon type" by the shipping industry, has a dual-purpose characteristic, which is simply too fragrant for shipping companies.

In particular, areas rich in oil and gas resources are often underdeveloped in the manufacturing industry, and while exporting oil and gas resources, they also need to import a large amount of grain, daily necessities, and electrical appliances.

This just makes the transportation schedule of dual-purpose transport ships full, and there is no empty sailing schedule in between.

Why do shipping companies love and hate oil and gas carriers?

It's not because every time it is transported, it has to be empty.

It is important to know that the unit transportation quotation of many container ships and dry bulk carriers is often less than half of that of oil and gas carriers, because cargo ships can be transported back and forth with full loads.

And LNG ships simply have no way to transport anything other than natural gas, which results in half of the shipping schedule being empty.

Therefore, the "New Luzon-type" transport ship will become the current star transport ship.

Zhao Xingmin looked at the container loading and unloading position on the deck of the Reef, turned his head and asked with a smile:

"Manager Zhu, did you receive a container waybill in Yangcheng?"

"I received a batch of containers transported to Siam, and the company may pick up another batch of containers in Siam to Kuala Lumpur, and finally go to the offshore oil fields in the Malay Peninsula to load a batch of methane, which will take about half a month."

"It seems that your company's shipping service is very popular!" Zhao Xingmin was a little envious in his heart.

Zhu Ling smiled and shook his head: "It's just hard money." ”

East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, and South Asia have much greater demand for shipping than North America.

If North America hadn't been de-industrializing over the years, resulting in a continuous decline in the manufacturing industry, its own resources and population would not need to import anything at all.

This is not the case in Asia.

Many parts of Asia have various deficiencies to a greater or lesser extent.

For example, in East Asia, the manufacturing industry is very strong, but the energy and resource gaps are also very large;

West Asia, on the other hand, is rich in energy, but manufacturing is the same as none;

South Asia has a large population and good agricultural resources, but the manufacturing industry is average, and there is also a huge shortage of resources and energy.

Southeast Asia is the most comprehensive among the four regions, with population, agricultural resources, energy and mineral resources, and some low-end industries in manufacturing.

If the shortcomings of the manufacturing industry can be made up, Southeast Asia can basically achieve internal circulation.

In the future global pattern, no matter which power it is, if it wants to confront North America, it must control Southeast Asia.

Without the addition of Southeast Asia, no single force can stand alone against North America.

Thank you for your support (ω'), and thank you for the rewards of "Wang Heng 2017" and "Dream of Eternal Life".

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