China's Marine special ships market scale continues to expand, step by step toward the Marine power!

At present, the development of Marine resources and the construction of Marine engineering have received more and more attention in the world, and the importance of Marine special ships as the basic equipment of Marine engineering has become more and more prominent. In order to seize Marine resources and become a maritime power, countries have continuously strengthened the development of Marine special ships in recent years. However, compared with the Marine powers, the development of China's Marine special ships is still in a relatively backward stage, and it is urgent to catch up with the world's advanced level.

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The scale of China's special ship market continues to expand, and the development situation is good

Since 2018, the international shipping market as a whole has been in a state of repair and adjustment, and the market is relatively optimistic, but supply pressure still exists. Coupled with the rise in fuel costs, the low level of ship rentals, the special ship market to maintain a low adjustment, showing a weak recovery pattern, the future will gradually move upward, slowly into the upward channel. The construction of the "Belt and Road" is the best opportunity for the special ship market, and the construction of infrastructure projects along the way continues to advance, bringing opportunities for the development of the special ship market. By the end of May 2021, there were 3,250 special vessels worldwide with a gross tonnage of 29.86 million dead weight tons. Large ships, young ships, lifting capacity of more than 100 tons will become the future trend of development, ships older, smaller, weak lifting capacity of ships will gradually fade out of the market, the demand for new special ships will further increase.

In the first half of 2021, the global economy was running well, and the market segments of special purpose ships such as automobile ships, timber ships, cement ships, wind power installation ships, and live livestock ships showed a steady recovery. Car boat market, the current global car ship size of 780, a total of about 12.286 million deadweight tons, a total of 43 new orders for car ships, is expected to be delivered in the second half of 2021 21 435,000 deadweight tons. In the wood ship market, there are currently 1,169 wood ships in the world with a total of about 36.893 million deadweight tons, 52 new ships have been ordered, and 32 ships of 1.154 million deadweight tons are expected to be delivered in the second half of 2021.

In general, the market size of China's special ships is expanding, the number of new ship orders is gradually increasing, and the production and manufacturing situation of special ships is good.

China's special ship production strength is not strong, most of the high-end product market is occupied by Western maritime powers

In recent years, with the continuous development of the shipping industry and the continuous improvement of the degree of specialization and standardization of ships, special ships, as a market segment in the world shipping market, are playing an increasingly important role. With the rapid development of China's economy, the demand for special ships is also showing a rapid growth trend. However, at present, China's special ships are still difficult to meet the growing market demand, and the huge gap between supply and demand can only be made up by foreign special ships, which affects our economic interests to a certain extent, and greatly weakens the competitiveness of our special ship transport in the world shipping market, which does not meet the fundamental requirements of our "maritime power" strategy.

Although China is not strong in the production of high-end special ships, its new order market share ranks first in the world in the auxiliary ship market such as supporting ships and supporting facilities. Pacific Shipbuilding and Fujian Southeast Shipyard undertook a large number of auxiliary ship orders; In terms of PSV(platform supply vessel) construction, China, India, Norway and Brazil have strong competitiveness, China's Fujian Mawei Shipyard and Pacific Shipyard, the United States North American shipyard and India ABG shipyard are in the forefront. However, European and American countries currently occupy a monopoly position in the market of core supporting equipment for special ship equipment. For example, in the field of winches and mud pumps, National Oil Well Company has the highest market share; In the top drive market, Vaco has the highest market share. Emsco has a large share of the turntable market.

With the upgrading of the manufacturing industry, special ships are facing both opportunities and challenges

At present, there are still many shortcomings in China's special ship manufacturing capacity, and there are both opportunities and challenges in the transformation of special ships from low-end market to high-end market. "Made in China 2025" takes Marine engineering equipment and high-tech ships as one of the ten key development areas, defines the development priorities and goals in the next 10 years, and points out the direction for the development of China's Marine engineering equipment and special ships. The strategy of "Marine power" puts forward higher requirements for special ship manufacturing, improves the level of scientific and technological development of the shipbuilding industry, enhances the sustainable development potential of the special ship industry, accelerates the transformation of China's economic development mode, relies on scientific and technological strength, takes digitization and intelligence as the main line, improves the scientific and technological level of product design and manufacturing, and achieves high-end sustainable development of the special shipbuilding industry. It can be seen that in the face of a good market situation, China's special ship manufacturing industry closely follows national policies and has good opportunities for future development.