The three major indicators rank first in the world, and the shipbuilding industry continues to lead

The transformation and upgrading results are obvious, and the proportion of "double height" ship types has increased significantly

On July 24, China's first large cruise ship "Aida Modu", built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., LTD., a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Group, slowly docked at Shanghai Overseas Gaoqiao Pier and successfully completed its first sea trial mission. The large cruise ship expected to be delivered by the end of the year marks that China is about to take off the third "crown pearl" of the shipbuilding industry, and become the only country that gathers the three "pearls" of aircraft carriers, LNG carriers and large cruise ships, and China's shipbuilding industry is about to fill the gap in the field of design and construction of large cruise ships.

"Large cruise ships are different from general transport ships, and the construction requirements and supporting industry chain of cruise ships are mostly different from the previous transport ship industry chain, so the construction of large cruise ships is also a very important process to promote the construction of a new industry chain." Li Yanqing said.

Not only large cruise ships, in the first half of this year, China's construction and delivery of high-tech, high value-added vessels increased significantly. According to the China Shipbuilding Industry Association data, in the first half of the year, a total of 88 container ships were delivered in bulk, with a revised gross ton of 2.751 million, accounting for 37% of domestic shipbuilding completions, surpassing bulk carriers to rank first. Successfully delivered 11 of the world's largest 24,000 TEU container ships, accounting for 84.6% of the global market share. New breakthroughs have been made in the construction of gas carriers, with the delivery of China's first 40,000 cubic meters of medium-sized fully cooled liquefied gas carrier, the world's largest 80,000 cubic meters of shallow water channel LNG carrier, 22,000 cubic meters of very large ethylene carrier (VLEC) and a new generation of 174,000 cubic meters of LNG carrier. Offshore engineering equipment such as the world's first M350 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), the first "general purpose" FPSO with self-propelled capability, and the first intelligent FPSO "Offshore Oil 123" were delivered smoothly.

Build green ships and smart ships

With advanced technology at the same time, the green upgrade of the shipbuilding industry continues to make efforts.

In the only shallow draft laboratory in Wuhan University of Technology, the team of Pei Zhiyong, director of the Green Intelligent Jianghai Direct Ship and cruise yacht Research Center, is stepping up the development of a 3,000-ton class, full range of hydrogen fuel powered new energy multi-purpose ship, which is also the world's largest hydrogen fuel powered transport ship.

Pei Zhiyong introduced that a new energy ship can reduce 3 tons of carbon emissions per day, and there are about 120,000 ships in the entire Yangtze River channel, which will reduce 360,000 tons of carbon per day. This will not only promote the green and high-quality development of Hubei, but also play a leading role in the whole country.

Not only is the inland shipping system, but on the blue ocean, Chinese shipping companies are also transforming to green ship manufacturing.

On August 8, Dalian COSCO Shipping Kawasaki Shipping Co., LTD., located in Lushun Economic and Technological Development Zone, successfully delivered the second 24188TEU super large container ship (DE125 ship) this year, and named it "Oriental Felixstowe" ship. As the world's largest container ship and Dalian's major scientific and technological achievements transformation project, "Oriental Felixstowe" adopts the latest environmental protection design, integrates the latest technological achievements and intelligent means, and has the characteristics of green energy saving, large loading capacity and high intelligence, which will significantly optimize operational efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. Comply with the green, low-carbon and intelligent development trend of the shipping industry.

Recently, the largest new Panamax container ship, built by the Chinese ship Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., LTD., was also successfully delivered. This ship is not only a large size, can carry 16,520 standard containers, but also a full life cycle green ship from design to operation to dismantling and other stages meet energy conservation and environmental protection. "We have a number of high-end and green ship orders on hand until 2027." The person in charge of the company said.

A series of structural changes in high-end new ship types have brought about the improvement of the capacity of machinery, metallurgy, electronics and other related industrial chains, and the wide application of digital manufacturing and intelligent equipment has also changed the face of China's shipbuilding industry.