Chapter 1002: Mr. Fan Is Surprised

...Haida Bridge is a supporting construction for Yangshan Deepwater Port. It also serves the transportation of "office boxes" occupied by the port. It also serves the water, electricity, communications, and channels in the port area, because Yangshan Island is an isolated island in the sea with no water, no electricity, and no energy. , which requires the Donghai Bridge to solve the problem.

Wind, waves, currents, tides, fog, and rain are frequent visitors to the East China Sea. Under such harsh conditions, 8,712 piles had to be laid and 670 single spans of 60 to 70 meters were erected. One can imagine how difficult it is to build a box beam that weighs 1,800 to 2,000 tons per piece.

To be honest, it can be said that it is very difficult to build such a large-scale bridge based on the construction experience and construction equipment.

Because the bridge is being built in the open sea, the impact of nature is too great, such as wind and waves. People cannot travel by boat if the wind exceeds level 7 or 8. If the construction workers have no transportation, they will not be able to construct.

To erect a bridge, piles must be driven first. The first thing to be done for the Donghai Bridge is the piling project of the bridge piers. On the vast sea, if the piling position is measured using the conventional 6-domain measurement method, it is very possible not to mention that it is impossible to achieve centimeter-level accuracy. The inaccurate positioning of the piles affected the bridge's closure, which also made experts think a lot.

An in-house bridge expert hired by the Shanghai Municipal Government told Fan Wubing, "According to our calculations, we need to find more than eight satellites and receive the reflected signals of more than eight satellites at the same time to achieve accurate positioning. It is of course very convenient to use the neighbor method. Yes, but we are at sea, not on land. Due to the action of waves and currents, your feet are moving, and the boat is moving. When you stand on the boat, you are moving. , so positioning is very difficult.

The characteristics of offshore construction force builders who are accustomed to working in six locations to constantly research and try new methods. Experts based on the specific conditions of offshore piling technology. A set of offshore concave piling positioning system was developed. It solves the problem of quick measurement and positioning of offshore piling and breaks through the key technical problems of offshore piling. Not only that, they also continuously make improvements and improvements in response to some occasional incidents in practice.

"But there is also a problem, because the concave system is a patent of the United States. In order to give it exclusive use of this signal, it often emits radio waves to interfere with other receivers, so it often causes us to be unable to drive piles on good days. "When the weather got bad, the satellite signal was received, but the piles could not be driven, so this caused us a lot of trouble," the expert said to Fan Wubing, "We heard that the military was developing a Beidou positioning system. To compete with the US defense system, if this system can be enabled, it should be able to solve the positioning problem.

After hearing this, Fan Wubing said, "Although the military affairs are difficult to deal with, they are related to the construction of Shanghai. They should make some efforts. I believe the coordination issue will be solved by the State Council and it will not be a problem.

But having said that. Fan Wubing was still stunned by the large-scale investment in building a port off the coast of Shanghai. He had not yet calculated how much money this investment would cost.

"The total investment is about 120 billion yuan, and it may eventually be more.

But it won’t be too long,” the mayor said to Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing immediately stopped talking. His investment in Hengshan Port, which amounts to 10 billion, will steadily build the largest hub port in Asia and probably the world. This investment ratio is relatively high, and the rate of return is very high. , but Shanghai casually said that it is necessary to build a port in the open sea, with an investment of more than 120 billion. After the completion of the deep-water port, it will also face the test of various unpredictable risk factors. What is the rate of return? Can the investment be recovered? There are huge variables.

That's for now. There are also more than a dozen foreign logistics and port operators in talks with the Shanghai Municipal Government to discuss potential investments in the Yangshan Deepwater Port Area. Among them, Hutchison Whampoa Port Company, Maersk Company and Singapore Port Group are the most interested. an investor.

"The biggest problem now is that if foreign investment is introduced from the beginning, we will be in a relatively passive position, so everyone hopes that domestic capital investment is suitable for the first phase of the project." The mayor said to Fan Wubing.

The first phase of the project requires domestic capital investment, but the terminal operation will be subject to global bidding, so it can definitely be a Sino-foreign joint venture. The second phase of Yangshan Port will be more open. By then, not only the operation, but also the construction of the project will be With the possible emergence of foreign investment, Yangshan Port will become an international port.

Although issues such as how much equity Shanghai Deepwater Port is willing to sell to foreign investors and how it will operate has not been finalized at this time, the mayor also said that Shenzhen Port will start substantive negotiations with foreign companies before the end of the year. A special research group will be established to analyze and demonstrate the plans and suggestions of overseas investors. Just now, "Second Gate" said that there are a total of 21 major shipping companies and port investment companies... To invest in the construction of the Yangshan Port project, 11 companies have prepared written reports, including the world's largest The top four well-known port investors are China Railway Corporation, Hutchison Whampoa, Maersk and Port of Singapore, while giants such as COSCO, Taiwan Evergreen Shipping, Orient Overseas and Hong Kong Merchants are also eager to try.

It is expected that after completion, the container throughput of Yangshan Deepwater Port will reach more than 13 million TEUs, and the total container throughput of the entire Shanghai Port will reach 25.4 million TEUs.

All in all, Shanghai's Du Wei blueprint surprised Fan Wubing.

Until everyone separated, Fan Wubing had been thinking about this matter. With an investment of 120 billion yuan, the port after construction may not be as easy to use as Hengshan Port, but the investment is more than ten times that of Hengshan Port. This can't help but surprise Fan Wubing. He can hardly imagine that such an investment proposal can be approved by the central government. Instead of this, it is better to invest in the construction of five or six large deep-water ports of the same scale as Hengshan Port in the coastal areas. That fund is enough, why do we have to keep the money in Shanghai?

In other words, taxpayers' money should not be spent like this! The resources of all citizens should not be wasted like this!

As a businessman, Fan Wubing cares about the full utilization of resources and the maximization of benefits. If it is used in the whole country, it is to use the least money to do the most things and generate the most benefits, which is the most responsible to the people, rather than such a large-scale debt development, extravagant and wasteful in the name of economic development, and finally let the people pay for a lot of debts. This is very inappropriate.

The beneficiaries are actually foreign capital groups, and the benefits received by the people are very limited. God knows what hole this little bit of benefit will fill?

Therefore, when he was having dinner with Tong Yushan and his daughter in the evening, Fan Wubing showed his unwillingness to participate in such things.

"It's so hard to use you once. Isn't it too disrespectful?" Tong Xiaoyun muttered beside him.

"It's not what you said. Fan Wubing waved his hand and said to Tong Xiaoyun seriously, "If it's Uncle Tong's own business, then whether it's 100 billion or 200 billion, this favor must be helped. The problem is that Uncle Tong is just a springboard in Shanghai now. He will definitely be sent out in the future. At most, it will take one or two years to go to a province to work as a full-time official, and then jump to a central ministry or directly enter the Politburo. So I think it's better to get less involved in things here, after all, the water in Shanghai is too muddy. "

"Even if you don't want to pay all. But the investment in the first phase of the project is only about 10 billion, don't you want to show some respect? When the subsequent projects are continuously inflowed with foreign capital, it won't matter. "Tong Xiaoyun obviously didn't want to let Fan Wubing off easily.

"If it's just the first phase of the project, we can consider it, but you know me. I won't do anything that doesn't benefit me. If we start it now, it will definitely affect my Hengshan Port project, so we'll delay it for as long as possible." Fan Wubing replied. Tong Yushan, who had been sitting and eating next to him, said at this time, "I don't think this thing can be done within one or two years. First of all, the overall well plan has not been put forward, and now we are just doing a feasibility analysis. Secondly, the central government is not very sure about this plan of more than 100 billion yuan. It believes that there are too many uncertain factors and the investment amount is too large, so this project has not been approved. "

Fan Wubing nodded. Without the approval of the central government, Yangshan Port could not be officially started. Although the central government's finances have improved now, Boss Zhu is a more pragmatic person. It is impossible for him to give them money to squander. So if there is no breakthrough progress, for example, if he nodded to indicate that he can bear part of the investment, it is difficult to pass in a short time.

And from the perspective of construction difficulty. Yangshan Port also has many difficulties. It is completely different from Hengshan Port, which is built by itself. It only needs funds to be in place and the seabed silt to be dredged before construction can be started smoothly. There are many comprehensive factors to consider here before construction can be started. Therefore, no results will be seen within a few years. Or it is unknown whether the effect can be seen in twenty years?

However, Hengshan Port can be built and put into use in two years at most, or it can be put into use earlier.

So, whether Yangshan Port can pose a threat to Hengshan Port ultimately depends on Fan Wubing's attitude.