The crowd scrutinized every detail of the module and found no obvious problems.

Then they talked about the cost of shipbuilding.

The shipyard's hull engineer Eno joked with a smile: "If this technology is successful, then we won't have to recruit so many technicians when we expand our production capacity in the future." ”

"That's inevitable, otherwise the company wouldn't have taken this technology so seriously." Huang Weida replied with a smile.

The hull manufacturing technology in front of us is actually a variant of biosynthetic material technology.

Through the prefabricated modular formwork, the hull outline of the ship is quickly formed, and the inside of the shell of the formwork is laid with a special plastic tarpaulin, and finally the nutrient solution, metal ion solution, hormones and pheromones are continuously injected to let the material grow along the shell by itself.

Previously, they tested a transport ship with a displacement of 20,000 tons, and now the experimental transport ship is an 80,000-ton 6,500TEU standard container ship.

Eno asked, "What is the current international offer?" ”

An engineer engaged in cost management replied: "Mitsubishi Heavy Industries quoted 15,000 US dollars per TEU, Samsung Heavy Industries, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding 14,600 US dollars per TEU, and China Shipbuilding Heavy Industries 14,200 US dollars per TEU." ”

[Note: TEU stands for Standard Container]

Eno raised his eyebrows: "In other words, their cost is about 1.3~14,000 US dollars per TEU?" ”

"Yes, if it was a low-price order before, according to the current cost, they are actually doing a loss-making business."

Huang Weida was a little curious about the company's production costs: "What are our costs?" ”

"If it is an old process, we actually only have a cost advantage on dual-purpose transport ships, and the shipbuilding cost of other ships is about 7~8% lower than that of other shipping companies." The cost engineer explained.

Huang Weida continued to ask: "How much can the new process reduce the cost?" ”

The cost engineer thought for a while before answering this question: "We are still evaluating, and a rough estimate can be reduced by about 50%!" ”

"So much?" Huang Weida was shocked.

According to the statistics of the International Shipping Agency, 30% of the manufacturing cost of a civil ship is labor, 25% is steel, 12% is the power system, 12% is cabin equipment and deck equipment, 6% is the communication and navigation system, 5% is the power and electrical equipment, 5% is the supporting equipment of other ships, and 5% is the design and management.

From here, it can be seen that labor + steel + power system + cabin equipment and deck equipment account for 79% of the total cost of shipbuilding.

It is important to know that in the manufacture of large ships, a large amount of steel is often consumed, and a lot of labor is also required.

The profit margin of shipbuilding is usually superimposed on the contract quotation according to 5~10% of the cost, so the contract quotation will be 105%~110% of the total cost.

Labor is okay, after all, employee wages will not fluctuate much.

But the price of steel is a serious problem.

Let's say that Shipyard A received an order in January this year, and when the cost was calculated, the cost of steel was $600 per ton, and in July this year, the price of steel rose to $900 per ton.

This means that the total cost will increase by about 12.5% to 112.5%, and the order will lose at least 2.5%~7.5%.

Although sometimes the contract is signed when the price of steel is high, and during the shipbuilding period, the price of steel falls, and higher profits can be obtained.

The problem is that shipping companies are not fools, they also assess the market price of steel.

Unless it is a very sought-after LNG carrier, shipping companies often choose to place orders during the period when steel prices are low.

At present, the three major shipbuilding countries in the world are in a state of vicious competition, and in order to grab orders, they often reduce prices with each other.

In the same level and type of ship orders, the quotation of Huaguo shipbuilding enterprises is often lower than that of South Korea and Dongying shipyards.

Take a 174,000 cubic meter (dwt of about 100,000 tons) LNG carrier as an example.

Samsung Heavy Industries' quotation is about 250 million US dollars, and the profit is about 12.5 million US dollars, while the Chinese shipping company usually quotes 240 million US dollars, even if the labor cost and steel are slightly cheaper, the profit is about 10 million US dollars.

This vicious competition has led to a slight fluctuation in the cost of steel, and shipping companies will face losses.

Tens of millions of tons of ships are built in a year, and the total profit of the industry is only more than one billion US dollars, which is the current dilemma of the shipbuilding industry.

In fact, the three major shipbuilding countries in East Asia all know that this will not work, but they can't stop at all, so they can only desperately roll down until the other two are completely finished, and then monopolize the entire shipbuilding industry, so as to end this vicious competition situation.

As the world's fourth-largest shipbuilding country, what should Luzon do in the face of this situation?

In fact, it can't change the current situation, and can only participate in the involution.

Fortunately, the new Luzon shipbuilding company has the full support of Homo sapiens behind it, and it has the blessing of various new technologies.

The cost engineer gave a rough explanation to everyone:

"After the hull is integrated manufacturing, we can reduce the waste of raw materials by 10~25%, and our hull material is silicon-aluminum steel, and the material cost is about 40% of the original; The labor cost is about 33% of the original; The power system has now been fully localized, about 75% of the original. ”

Huang Weida, Eno and others are good at math, and after thinking about it in their hearts, they calculated the general situation.

According to the current cost of major shipping companies in East Asia as the reference base value.

The labor cost of the new Luzon shipyard is 10%, the material cost is 10%, the power system cost is 9%, and the other cost is 21%.

Its total cost is equivalent to about 50% of that of major shipping companies in East Asia.

This is still because it is necessary to leave enough profits for other brother enterprises, otherwise the cost can be reduced by about 10%.

In other words, Samsung Heavy Industries needs about 84.5 million US dollars to build a 6500TEU container ship.

The New Luzon Shipbuilding Company built the same 6,500 TEU container ship, but the cost was only about 42.25 million US dollars.

Obviously, this gap is already very terrifying.

The cost engineer said with a smile: "In fact, everyone still ignores another advantage of our company. ”

"Another advantage?" Huang Weida didn't react for a while.

"It's the speed of shipbuilding." The cost engineer reminded.

Immediately, everyone present reacted.

The shipbuilding speed of the New Luzon shipyard is indeed very fast, and it can even be described as godfast.

Taking the 6500TEU container ship in front of us as an example, if the new process is adopted, the hull can be completed in about two months.

Then the secondary adjustment of the internal compartment, the installation of the gas turbine, the fabrication of the ship island, the installation of supporting equipment, and finally the outfitting began.

It is estimated that the construction of this ship can be completed in 130~140 days.

This speed is simply a beating for large ships that other shipping companies often build for a year or two.

The unit cost is only about 50%, and the unit construction time is less than half.

The advantages accumulated by the New Luzon shipbuilding company in various aspects become even more obvious when added together.

"Science and technology are indeed the primary productive forces." Huang Weida sighed.

Ino turned his head and asked, "Designer Huang, I heard that the ship design center is also planning to add some energy-saving designs?" ”

Huang Weida nodded: "Well, it's being studied, but it's not being tested on this experimental ship, and it's likely to be tested on the next ship." ”

"What is the design?" Another engineer asked curiously.

Huang Weida did not hide it, and directly introduced several energy-saving schemes to everyone.

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