Export high-end ship praises "Made in China"

High-tech, difficult, high value-added ship manufacturing brings new opportunities to help Guangzhou become a domestic high-end ship offshore equipment research and development innovation center

From conventional bulk carriers, container ships and oil tankers, to "high-tech", "difficult" and "high value-added" gas carriers, senior passenger rolling vessels, carbon fiber high-speed passenger ships, with the changes in the international market and the stimulation of the domestic consumer market, China's shipbuilding industry has ushered in new development opportunities.

Guangdong Province has listed the shipbuilding industry as one of the five key industries in the development of advanced manufacturing industry in the province, and proposed to build the Pearl River estuary area, which is dominated by Guangzhou, into one of the three major shipbuilding bases in China. In the first quarter of this year, China's high-tech ship research and development and construction have made new breakthroughs, batch to undertake a series of high-end ships, Guangdong shipbuilding industry's three major indicators "shipbuilding completion", "new ship orders" and "hand-held ship orders" have risen year-on-year.

In addition, the repair load ratio (revised gross tons/deadweight tons), which reflects the technical level of new ship orders, reached 0.444, much higher than 0.392 in the same period last year. Chen Jianrong, secretary general of Guangdong Shipbuilding Industry Association, told reporters that this means that China's structural transformation has achieved remarkable results, and the proportion of high-end ship types has increased, and China is moving forward from a shipbuilding country to a shipbuilding power. Recently, the reporter also conducted an investigation and interview on the shipbuilding industry in Guangzhou.

Passenger ship replacement:

Take aim at carbon fiber technology

On Xiaohu Island in Nansha, Guangzhou, two technical workers are carefully "sticking" a layer of carbon fiber fabric in the "carbon fiber shipyard" workshop of Guangdong Zhongwei Composite Materials Co., LTD., a subsidiary of Pearl River Shipping. Unlike the huge "bang bang" sound in the traditional shipbuilding workshop, this workshop is unusually quiet, and occasionally comes the sound of an air nail gun.

At the dock of the shipyard, two passenger ships have been built "Haizhu Bay" and "Haizhu Lake", soon, they will be the first phase of Pazhou Hong Kong Macao Passenger Terminal put into use carbon fiber high-speed passenger ships, will be in the way of sea-to-sky transport, about 120 minutes from Pazhou to the Hong Kong International Airport direct. Carbon fiber high-speed passenger ship using water jet propulsion, the speed of more than 37 knots, much faster than the average passenger ship's speed of about 25 knots.

"Haizhu Lake" carbon fiber high-speed passenger ship

It is understood that the "Haizhu Bay" and "Haizhu Lake" carbon fiber high-speed passenger ship is one of the "achievements" of Guangdong Zhongwei Composite Materials Co., LTD. The company's director and general manager Huang Chuanfei told reporters that as early as 2015, in response to the requirements of low-carbon environmental protection, the Pearl River shipping superior unit Guangdong Port and Shipping Group Co., Ltd. will layout green ship manufacturing and shipping in advance, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Guangdong Port and Shipping Group Co., Ltd. to promote the transformation and upgrading of the shipbuilding industry, With the opportunity of upgrading high-speed passenger ships owned by the relevant enterprises under Pearl River Shipping, on the one hand, we are looking for high-speed passenger ships that are faster, more economical, more comfortable and more environmentally friendly, so as to cope with the impact of various aspects of the high-speed passenger ship market in the Greater Bay Area; On the other hand, after a variety of global investigation and research, Pearl River Shipping decided to take the lead in introducing carbon fiber ship construction technology and process, acquired the shares of Norway's well-known carbon fiber ship construction BrAa company and set up a joint venture Guangdong Zhongwei Composite Materials Co., LTD.

Introduce advanced materials to overcome technical problems

In 2013, the "Notice of The State Council on Printing and distributing the Implementation Plan for Accelerating Structural Adjustment and Promoting Transformation and Upgrading of the Shipbuilding Industry (2013-2015)" issued by The State Council mentioned that "support qualified enterprises to set up R&D centers overseas through self-establishment, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cooperation and other ways to support overseas industrial restructuring." Master advanced technologies in the fields of Marine engineering equipment, high-tech ships and supporting equipment."