As a support industry of Shidao, in recent days, the major docks and docks of Shidao have shown a new spring atmosphere of vitality, and local shipbuilding enterprises are working hard to seize the construction nodes and sprint to the first quarter.
At 4:00 p.m. on February 8, a 1800 TEU container ship built by Huanghai Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. for domestic shipowners slowly slid off the dock and successfully completed the launch, which was also the first ship built by Huanghai Company to build this type of ship in batches. The vessel is expected to be delivered by the end of May this year, significantly ahead of the contract delivery period.
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On the same day, the Yellow Sea Company also cut the first steel plate for another domestic customer to build another domestic ship, and construction officially began. So far, the first batch of 24 1800TEU container ship construction orders signed by the Yellow Sea Company and domestic and foreign shipowners have started construction of 10 ships, and at least 9 are expected to be delivered this year.
Jiao Defeng, director of the project management department of Huanghai Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., introduced that from the start of construction to the launch of the first ship, the construction of the ship section and the ship platform cycle have been significantly shortened, and the outfitting and sea trial time have also been greatly advanced, and it is expected to be delivered at the end of May, more than a month earlier than the original time, making a model and demonstration for the subsequent batch construction.
At present, the Yellow Sea Company has nearly 50 orders for the construction of 1800TEU container ships, Antarctic krill fishing and processing vessels, luxury cruise ships, multi-purpose cargo ships, various distant-water fishing vessels and law enforcement vessels, with a contract amount of more than 5 billion yuan, an increase of more than 200% compared with the same period last year. Among them, 47 ships of various types are expected to be delivered this year, and the delivery amount is expected to exceed 2.5 billion yuan.
In the face of the hot situation, the company scientifically deployed and organized all aspects of manpower, technology and system, coordinated the progress, quality and safety, and fully resumed production on the sixth day of the first month of the first month, racing against time to ensure that the construction node tasks of each ship type were completed ahead of schedule.
In Shidao, another local shipbuilding industry group, the company also riveted the New Year of the Tiger in the New Year, resuming work and production from the eighth day of the first month of the first month, and striving to sprint to the first quarter of this year.
At present, the 399 passenger high-speed passenger ships undertaken by the company have basically completed the hull construction, and will soon begin interior and exterior decoration, and a number of tail slide and light purse seine ocean fishing vessels have entered the stage of platform construction, and are expected to be delivered after May.
According to reports, since the fourth quarter of last year, the company began to reverse the unfavorable situation, and new ship orders continued to increase. At present, the company has nearly 30 orders for multi-purpose bulk carriers, facility maintenance vessels, offshore passenger ships and distant-water fishing vessels, and the overall situation is significantly better than last year. Deliveries are expected to be nearly $400 million in 2022, with the vast majority of deliveries before or around October. In addition, another batch of inland river cargo ships has initially reached the intention to build.
In the face of signs of the overall shipbuilding market picking up, since the second half of last year, The major shipbuilding enterprises in Shidao have overcome unfavorable factors such as the continuous evolution of the epidemic and the sharp rise in raw material prices, taken the initiative to attack and actively sought new market share. The number of new orders, handheld orders, new starts and expected shipbuilding completions of backbone shipbuilding enterprises will usher in significant growth compared with last year, indicating that the shipbuilding industry in Shidao in the Year of the Tiger will come out of the trough as a whole and become a strong boost for local high-quality development breakthroughs.