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Chapter 816 Super Shipyard (Third update, please subscribe)

What is the charm of industrial manufacturing?
In fact, it’s just four words: high quality and low price!

No matter what kind of product, as long as it evolves from handicrafts to industrial manufacturing, it will definitely become more affordable and high-quality.

Whether it is woven fabrics replacing homespun cloth, or large-scale garment manufacturing replacing handmade tailoring, the key is high quality and low price!

Of course, there is nothing complicated about this kind of primary industrial product. As long as the corresponding equipment and simple training of workers are required, it can be put into production. The rest is nothing more than focusing on quality and output. As long as the former is qualified, the latter To improve, all that remains is to find the market and count the money.

This is also the reason why the textile industry was the first to be transferred out of Japan's "Flying Geese Array". In fact, this is also the foundation of Japan's post-war industrial revival.

From a large perspective - the industrial revolution also started with the textile industry. From a small perspective, Japan's post-war economic boom and the rise of South Korea and the Four Asian Tigers all relied on the textile industry.

The core reason is that the textile industry has low technology and low difficulty. It is suitable for countries and regions with backward industries to develop as primary industries.

However, while the industry is being transferred, "Touyan" needs to improve its own industrial level in order to ensure its own economic development. In the past few years, while Nanyang is developing its textile industry, it has also been continuously improving the technological level of its own industry. From textile machinery to various heavy machinery and equipment, from cars to jet aircraft, Nanyang's industrial upgrading has been in an orderly manner.

Among the many technology-based industries in Southeast Asia, the first to open the international market was neither cars nor aircraft, but ships. A few years ago, Greek shipping king Onassis bought the 50000-ton giant ship from Changan Shipbuilding Industry. The oil tanker symbolizes that Nanyang shipbuilding industry has truly entered the international market.

But unlike Yongxing Islands, Zhongxing Island must develop industry, so appropriate industrial transfers are needed, and Zhongxing Shipyard is one of them.

A 20-ton supertanker!
In Zhu Wanzhe's introduction, Li Yi'an thought of another world where giant ships weighing hundreds of thousands of tons are possible. Now Nanyang is just the beginning!

After the Magulu Islands were merged into Nanyang, according to the long-term plan, they will be Nanyang's back garden, just a tourist attraction, and there will be no need for much industrial transfer.

Then Zhu Wanzhe added.

In your study, Zhu Wanzhe showed you the renderings of Yong'an New Shipyard and the supertanker under planning and design.

Seeing that Your Excellency did not speak, Zhu Wanzhe quickly explained.

Of course, to a certain extent, this super shipyard is still an industrial transfer project within Nanyang. After all, Zhongxing Island, also known as Sulawesi Island, is the most backward industrial area in Nanyang. Of course, the same is true for the Woody Islands. However, according to industrial planning, the Yongxing Islands will be dominated by tourism in the future, where the population is mainly indigenous and has a more exotic feel. However, the local indigenous population is completely different from the Javanese in that most of them believe in Catholicism. In fact, in another world, they once firmly opposed becoming part of Indonesia. They even directly declared independence, but their independence was suppressed and did not succeed. But even so, their resistance continued for more than ten years.

In terms of scale, the new shipyard in Zhongxing is the largest shipyard in the world. It not only has the largest super dock in the world. It also has state-of-the-art shipbuilding equipment.

"...Zhongxing New Shipyard started construction this year. It was contracted by First Construction Company to build a 100 million-ton super dock. It is 980 meters long and 12 meters deep. It is expected to be completed in February 350. It will be the largest dock in the world. , equipped with two 10-ton gantry cranes, can be built on three -ton oil tankers..."

"In fact, this is generally true for all kinds of merchant ships, including container ships and ore ships,"

"Currently we have completed the design work of the supertanker. The total length of the ship is 290 meters, the total power is 27500 horsepower, the load is 10.4 tons, and the speed is 15.5 knots. It will be the first ship in the world exceeding 10 tons. Super tanker, but our ultimate goal is to build a 20-ton giant tanker. Only when it exceeds 20 tons is a real super tanker.”

After listening to Zhu Wanzhe's description, Li Yi'an, who knew that the sea in the future would be full of super ships, said.

"Your Excellency, although a 10-ton super tanker looks very big, we have used an electronic computer to calculate that a 10-ton super tanker not only meets safety standards, but also has cost advantages. The advantage of 10 tons may not be too great. Obviously, but if it is a 20-ton super tanker, its cost advantage is very obvious. Building a 20-ton super tanker requires 2.7 tons of steel, or building four 4-ton tankers requires 5 tons of steel. 4.4 tons, just the cost of steel is saved by more than one-third, and the larger the tanker, the more crude oil a single ship transports at a time, and the average fuel consumption per ton of transportation is lower,"

In the past few years, Changan Shipbuilding Industry Company has not only built up to 10 50000-ton VLCCs and exported six of them, but also built the world's first 10-ton ore carrier. And this also laid the foundation for the construction of giant ships in Nanyang.

"In that case, let's build a 10-ton Lianlianshou first, and then build a 20-ton, or even 30-ton, or 50-ton giant ship!"

"50 tons!"

Zhu Wanzhe was startled by His Excellency's words. "Yes, that's 50 tons!"

Li Yian then turned around and walked to the map, pointing at the connection between Asia and Africa on the map.

"Look here..."

"Suez Canal?"

"Yes, it is the Suez Canal. Since the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, merchant ships from all over the world have expanded from one or two thousand tons at the beginning to tens of thousands of tons. The canal at that time had two major flaws: first, it was not wide enough; There is no way for the two ships to pass, and they can only travel in a single line; secondly, the depth is not enough, and only ships with a load of 6.5 tons or an empty load of 15 tons can pass. The Suez Canal has become increasingly unsuitable. Therefore, widening the Suez Canal is necessary. The river has become inevitable.”

Regarding the expansion of the Suez Canal mentioned by Your Excellency, Zhu Wanzhe did not find it new. After all, there have been discussions in this regard. At this time, he heard Your Excellency say it again.

"At the same time, the situation in the Middle East has become increasingly tense. In June last year, the Free Officers Organization headed by Nasser overthrew the Farouk dynasty of Egypt, and the Republic of Egypt was established. Now they are negotiating with the United Kingdom and requesting British troops "Withdrawing from the canal zone is only the first step in Egypt's plan. The next step must be to take back the canal."

"Take back the canal! From the British?"

"Yes, they should reach an agreement,"

Naturally, Li Yian would not talk about the "Second Middle East War" caused by Nasser's withdrawal of the canal, which was the Suez War, but he only needed to link Suez to the war.

"After taking back the canal, the Egyptians will inevitably seek international capital to expand the canal. Well, this is an opportunity to invest in the canal. However, the Suez Canal will not stop. For example, Israel. Since the day Israel was founded, it has been attacked by Arab countries. siege, including Egypt. As long as there is an opportunity, Egypt will definitely unite with Syria and other countries to attack Israel again. "

Li Yian pointed at the map and said half-truthfully.

"Without the obstruction of the British army, Israel will inevitably march towards the Sinai Peninsula and use the Sinai Peninsula to build its own defense depth. In this case, the canal may become the forefront of the war between the two countries."

Your Excellency's analysis surprised Zhu Wanzhe.

"Sir, Israel is... very small, can they defeat Egypt?"

"Whether we can fight or not does not necessarily have to do with the size of the country. India is also very big..."

Although it was not intentional, Li Yian had a small "humiliation mark", but comparing India and Israel is definitely a bit humiliating.

After all, in another world, Israel, as a victorious general on the battlefield in the Middle East, shocked the whole world with its victories time and time again.

The reason why Li Yian mentioned Israel was just to use Israel as a pretext. After all, the trigger of the second Middle East War was Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal, which led to the intervention of Britain and France. They teamed up with Israel to capture the Sinai Peninsula and the Suez Canal.

This also led to the "Suez Canal Crisis". Although Britain and France finally withdrew their troops in despair due to the intervention of the United States and Soviet Russia, it also exposed the vulnerability of the canal to the world.

Just 10 years later, during the third Middle East War, Israel swept across the Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian army, which suffered heavy losses, could only retreat to the west bank of the canal, making the canal the front line of confrontation between the two sides.

For the next nearly 10 years, the canal was de facto suspended. In addition, the subsequent widening of the canal caused the suspension of navigation. For 10 years, ships from all over the world were able to bypass the Cape of Good Hope.

And crises are actually business opportunities!

(End of this chapter)