Homo sapiens.

Chapter 212 The Port Problem
The Homo sapiens company's hiring of shipbuilders for the New Luzon Shipyard was not kept secret for too long, and it was soon known by the head of Samsung Heavy Industries at the Mingzhou Shipyard.

Regarding this matter, although Samsung Heavy Industries is hostile to the New Luzon Shipyard, the problem is that they have nothing to do now.

After all, it is Samsung Heavy Industries who wants to close the Minju Shipyard and lay off the employees here.

Employees can't find their own way out now, Samsung Heavy Industries will object, right?
If Samsung Heavy Industries really does this, it must continue to maintain the Minju Shipyard, which is obviously impossible.

Therefore, Samsung Heavy Industries can only choose to watch this matter with a cold eye, and can't do other things at all.

the other side.

Malaysia has reorganized its internal shipping business this year and established a shipping group. In fact, Homo sapiens will secretly control Malaysia's internal shipping resources and carry out integration and reorganization.

新组建的大马海运集团，目前掌握了8条LNG船（载重吨位67万吨）、7条油轮（载重吨位83万吨）、32条集装箱船（载重吨位232万吨）、145条散装货船（载重吨位122万吨），其他船只86条（载重吨位41万吨）。

As one of the top 3 LNG ship holders in the world, Malaysia has been uncharacteristically this year. It has not increased the shipbuilding demand for LNG ships, but sold [-] of them.

The reason for this situation.

The fundamental reason is that Malaysia Shipping Group placed shipbuilding orders to New Luzon Shipbuilding Company, especially the newly added 8 methane carriers, all of which were taken by New Luzon Shipbuilding Company.

April 21, 7.

This year's sixth typhoon "Fireworks" went all the way north to Dongying, avoiding Southeast Asia.

A transport ship carrying 8 tons of methane, which departed from the waters east of the Malay Peninsula in Malaysia, arrived at Yangcheng Port.

This methane carrier is the first methane carrier delivered by New Luzon Shipbuilding Company to Malaysia Shipping Group, and it is also the first voyage of this ship.

Zhao Xingmin, the manager of the Lingnan branch of China Petroleum Corporation, who is in charge of the natural gas unloading port, is negotiating with Zhu Ling, the business manager of the Malaysian Shipping Group.

Holding the shipping schedule quotation table in his hand, he found that the recent shipping quotations of Malaysia Shipping Group are not bad.

The recent quotation of a standard LNG ship (transportation capacity of 10 tons) is US$6.5 per day. The average shipping period is about 5 days from Malaysia to Yangcheng Port, and the transportation cost of a standard LNG ship is US$32.5. Knife.

The methane carrier of Malaysia Shipping Group (transporting capacity of 8 tons) is quoted at US$5 per day, which is a little cheaper.

However, Zhao Xingmin knew the details of the other party.

"Manager Zhu, can the price be lower? How about 4 per day?"

He set this price because he knew that the transportation cost of the methane carrier was lower than that of the LNG carrier, after all, there was no need to maintain ultra-low temperature.

But Zhuling smiled and shook her head: "Manager Zhao is joking, 5 per day is already a friendly price, and other companies can't get this price, not to mention you have benefits."

The two sides talked for more than half an hour, but Zhuling still refused to enter.

Fortunately, Malaysia Shipping Group is more sincere about long-term contracts, offering a price of 4.2 US dollars per day, but the contract is 3 years, and requires at least 120 days of operation per year.

Zhao Xingmin also has no objection to this. This time he is looking for cooperation with Malaysia Shipping, and he also requested to lock a part of the shipping schedule of Malaysia Shipping according to the instructions of the headquarters, in order to deal with the possibility of skyrocketing freight rates in the future.

In fact, this is also a common method for large energy companies to avoid risks. Once a short-term rental encounters an emergency, the freight rate may increase several times. Only long-term contracts can ensure the stability of transportation costs.

It is not a whim of Sinopec, Sinopec, and Huahai Oil to cooperate with Malaysian shipping, but a forced choice after full consideration.

Not only Malaysia Shipping, but New Luzon Shipping also signed many long-term contracts with the three giants.

After Zhao Xingmin signed a long-term transportation contract for three methane carriers, he, Zhuling and others observed the methane carrier Reef in the port.

Unlike conventional LNG ships, the deck of a methane carrier does not have a huge metal hemisphere structure, but a very flat container deck.

Similarly, the gas pipeline for unloading methane is different from the LNG ship, and does not require low temperature maintenance equipment, nor does it require secondary gasification equipment.

The LNG natural gas storage tanks in the port are stored in low-temperature liquefaction. The stored low-temperature liquefied natural gas must be transported to users. A safe heating gasification equipment is installed in the middle to avoid the sudden gasification of the liquefied natural gas and burst gas pipelines.

However, the output of the methane carrier is gas, and special low-temperature liquefaction equipment must be used to liquefy the natural gas before it can be input into the gas storage tank at the port.

This is troublesome for the LNG port, but fortunately, China Petroleum Corporation has considered this situation before, so it has added a low-temperature liquefaction equipment at the port.

Fortunately, the transportation quotations of Malaysia Shipping and New Luzon Shipping are relatively low. After the two are offset, there is no increase in cost.

Without adding too much cost, who doesn't like it.

This is also one of the reasons why the three energy giants in Huaguo will take a fancy to Malaysia Shipping and New Luzon Shipping.

If it weren't for the fact that New Luzon Shipbuilding Company's orders have been scheduled for 24 years, and Huaguo has its own shipping company that manufactures LNG ships, the three major energy giants would like to order more than a dozen methane carriers to supplement their own shipping fleets. .

It's a pity that this kind of behavior is obviously somewhat "incorrect".

In addition, Homo sapiens' large-scale gas storage tank technology has also attracted the attention of major energy giants. After all, the storage of liquefied natural gas is too dangerous, and maintenance costs are also a problem.

Similarly, shipping companies all over the world are actually very interested in the methane carriers of the New Luzon Shipbuilding Company. However, its current production capacity has been taken up by Malaysia Shipping and New Luzon itself, and other companies have no capacity at all. .

However, many shipping companies have already begun to think about whether to continue to purchase LNG ships at this time.

After all, this kind of methane carrier, which is called "New Luzon Type" by the shipping industry, has dual-purpose characteristics, which is simply too fragrant for shipping companies.

In particular, areas rich in oil and gas resources are often underdeveloped manufacturing industries. While exporting oil and gas resources, they also need to import a large amount of food, daily necessities, and electrical appliances.

This just makes the transportation schedule of the dual-purpose transport ship full, and there is no empty period in the middle.

Why do shipping companies love and hate oil and gas carriers?

It's not because every time it transports, it has to go there empty.

We must know that the unit transportation quotations of many container ships and dry bulk carriers are often less than half of that of oil and gas carriers, because the cargo ships can be fully loaded back and forth.

However, LNG ships have no way to transport other things except natural gas, which leads to half of the shipping schedule being empty.

Therefore, the "New Luzon Type" transport ship will become the current star transport ship.

Zhao Xingmin looked at the container loading and unloading positions on the deck of the Reef, turned his head and asked with a smile:

"Manager Zhu, has your company received the container waybill in Yangcheng?"

"I received it. It is a batch of containers transported to Siam. At that time, the company may pick up another batch of containers from Siam to Kuala Lumpur, and finally go to the offshore oil fields of the Malay Peninsula to load a batch of methane. It will take about half a trip. About a month."

"It seems that your company's shipping service is very popular!" Zhao Xingmin was a little envious.

Zhuling smiled and shook her head: "It's just hard work."

East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, and South Asia have much greater demand for shipping than North America.

If North America hadn't been de-industrialized over the years, leading to a continuous decline in the manufacturing industry, its own resources and population would not need to import anything at all.

But Asia is different.

In many parts of Asia, there are more or less various deficiencies.

For example, in East Asia, the manufacturing industry is very strong, but the gap in energy and resources is also very large;

While West Asia is rich in energy, the manufacturing industry is equivalent to no;

South Asia has a huge population and good agricultural resources, but the manufacturing industry is so-so, and there is also a huge gap in resources and energy;

Among the four regions, Southeast Asia is the most comprehensive, with population, agricultural resources, energy and mineral resources, and some low-end industries in manufacturing.

If the shortcomings of the manufacturing industry can be made up for, Southeast Asia can basically achieve internal circulation.

In the future global pattern, no matter which power it is, if it wants to fight against North America, it must control Southeast Asia.

Without the supplement of this large block in Southeast Asia, no force can stand alone against North America.

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