Homo sapiens.

Chapter 214 Cost
Everyone carefully checked the details of the module, and found no obvious problems.

Then they talked about the cost of shipbuilding again.

Ino, the hull engineer of the shipyard, joked with a smile: "If this technology is successful, then we will expand our production capacity in the future, so we don't need to expand so many technicians."

"That is inevitable, otherwise the company would not attach so much importance to this technology." Huang Weida replied with a smile.

The integrated hull manufacturing technology in front of us is actually a variant of biosynthetic material technology.

Through the prefabricated modular formwork, the outline of the hull of the ship can be quickly formed. Inside the shell of the formwork, a special plastic tarpaulin is laid, and finally the nutrient solution, metal ion solution, hormone and pheromone are continuously injected, so that the material along the shell The body grows by itself.

They have tested a transport ship with a displacement of 2 tons before, but now the experimental transport ship is a 8TEU standard container ship with a displacement of 6500 tons.

Eno asked, "What is the current international quotation?"

An engineer engaged in construction cost replied: “Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ quotation is US$1.5 per TEU, Samsung Heavy Industries, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding are US$1.46 per TEU, and CSIC is US$1.42 per TEU. "

[Note: TEU is a standard container]

Ino frowned: "That is to say, their cost is about US$1.3 to US$1.4 per TEU?"

"Yes, if it was a low-price order before, according to the current cost, they are actually doing a loss-making business."

Huang Weida was a little curious about the company's production costs: "What is our cost?"

"If it is an old technology, we actually only have a cost advantage in dual-purpose transport ships. The shipbuilding cost of other ships is about 7-8% lower than that of other ship companies." The cost engineer explained.

Huang Weida continued to ask: "How much can the new technology reduce the cost?"

The cost engineer thought for a while before answering this question: "We are still evaluating, and it is roughly estimated that it can be reduced by about 50%!"

"So much?" Huang Weida was shocked.

根据国际船舶机构的统计数据：一艘民用船的制造费用中，人工30%、钢材25%、动力系统12%、舱室设备和甲板设备12%、通信导航系统6%、电力电气设备5%、其他船舶配套5%、设计和管理5%。

It can be seen from here that labor + steel + power system + cabin equipment and deck equipment account for 79% of the total cost of shipbuilding.

We must know that in the manufacture of large ships, a large amount of steel is often consumed, and a large amount of labor is also required.

The profit margin of shipbuilding is usually superimposed on the contract quotation according to 5-10% of the construction cost, so the contract quotation will be 105%-110% of the total cost.

Labor is okay, after all, employee wages will not fluctuate too much.

But the price problem of steel is serious.

Assuming that shipyard A received an order in January this year, when the cost was calculated, the cost of steel was $600 per ton, but in July this year, the price of steel rose to $900 per ton.

This means that the total cost will increase by about 12.5%, reaching a level of 112.5%. At this time, the order will lose at least 2.5% to 7.5%.

Although sometimes the contract is signed when the steel price is high, and the steel price falls during the shipbuilding period, higher profits can be obtained.

The problem is that other shipping companies are not fools, they will also evaluate the market price of steel.

Unless it is a very sought-after LNG ship, or ordinary container ships, dry bulk carriers, ro-ro ships, oil tankers, etc., shipping companies often place orders during the period when steel prices are low.

And now the world's three major shipbuilding countries are in a state of vicious competition. In order to grab orders, they often lower prices with each other.

In terms of orders for ships of the same class and type, the quotations of Huaguo shipping companies are often lower than those of South Koryo and Dongying shipping companies.

Take an LNG carrier of 17.4 cubic meters (about 10 tons of deadweight) as an example.

Samsung Heavy Industries’ quotation is about 2.5 million U.S. dollars, and the profit is about 1250 million U.S. dollars; while Huaguo shipbuilding companies usually quote 2.4 million U.S. dollars, even if labor costs and steel materials are slightly cheaper, the profit is only about 1000 million U.S. dollars.

This kind of vicious competition has led to slight fluctuations in the cost of steel, and shipping companies will face losses.

Tens of millions of tons of ships are built a year, but the total profit of the industry is only a billion dollars. This is the current dilemma of the shipbuilding industry.

In fact, the three major shipbuilding countries in East Asia know that this is not going to work, but they can't stop at all, they can only roll on desperately until the other two are completely finished, and then they monopolize the entire shipbuilding industry, so that this vicious competition can be ended.

As the fourth largest shipbuilding country in the world, what should Luzon do in the face of this situation?
In fact, they cannot change the current situation, they can only participate in the involution.

Fortunately, the New Luzon Shipbuilding Company is fully supported by Homo sapiens, and it has the blessings of various new technologies.

The cost engineer gave a rough explanation to everyone:
"After adopting the integrated manufacturing of the hull, we can reduce the waste of raw materials by 10-25%. In addition, our hull material is silicon-aluminum steel, and the material cost is about 40% of the original; the labor cost is about 33% of the original; the power system is now The complete localization will probably be about 75% of the original value.”

Huang Weida, Yinuo and others are all good at mathematics. They calculated in their hearts and calculated the approximate situation.

According to the current cost of major shipping companies in East Asia as a reference base value.

The labor cost of the new Luzon shipyard is 10%, the material cost is 10%, the power system cost is 9%, and other costs are 21%.

Its total cost is equivalent to about 50% of the major shipping companies in East Asia.

This is because it is necessary to leave enough profits for other brother companies, otherwise the cost can be reduced by about 10%.

In other words, the cost of building a 6500TEU container ship by Samsung Heavy Industries needs to be about 8450 million US dollars.

However, the cost of building the same 6500TEU container ship by New Luzon Shipbuilding Company is only about US$4225 million.

Obviously, this gap is already very terrifying.

The cost engineer said with a smile: "In fact, everyone still ignores another advantage of our company."

"Another advantage?" Huang Weida didn't realize it for a while.

"It's the speed of shipbuilding." The cost engineer reminded.

Immediately everyone present reacted.

The shipbuilding speed of the New Luzon Shipyard is indeed very fast, and it can even be described as super fast.

Take the 6500TEU container ship in front of me as an example. If the new technology is adopted, the hull can be completed in about two months.

Then start the secondary adjustment of the internal cabin, gas turbine installation, ship island manufacturing, supporting equipment installation, and finally outfitting.

It is estimated that the construction of this ship can be completed in 130-140 days.

This speed is simply a slap in the face for other large ships that other ship companies often build for a year or two.

The unit cost is only about 50%, and the unit construction time is less than half.

The accumulated advantages of New Luzon Shipbuilding Company in various aspects become more obvious when added together.

"Technology really is the primary productive force." Huang Weida sighed.

Eno turned his head and asked, "Designer Huang, I heard that the Ship Design Center plans to add some energy-saving designs?"

Huang Weida nodded: "Well, it's being researched, but it's not tested on this experimental ship, it will most likely be tested on the next ship."

"What design?" Another engineer asked curiously.

Huang Weida did not hide it, and directly introduced several energy-saving solutions to everyone.

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