Chapter 1312 The World's Largest Shipbreaking Center!

Empire Aerospace Group successfully launched the first artificial satellite, shocking the world.

Yang Ming has already put his time on other things.

At this time.

The place where Yang Ming, Alina, Yingla, He Chaoxuan, Lin Xiuzhi and others came to was a port of Huangpu Dock.

Historically, Huangpu Dock grew up with Hong Kong and has the same long and glorious history. The company was established in 1863 and acquired the dock and repair factory of Huangpu in Zhujiang, Z country, and the newly built dry dock in Xiangjiangzai, Hong Kong Island at that time.

In 1866, Huangpu Dock obtained the first Xiangjiang Commercial Registration Certificate according to the newly enacted company law at that time.

For more than a century, Huangpu Dock has been one of the largest dry docks, ship repair and shipbuilding companies in the Far East, and has experienced two world wars during this period.

At the peak of business, the dock handled an average of 25 ships per week. In 1960, the company provided services to 23 countries and more than nine naval fleets.

Whampoa Dockyard first entered the property development market in 1969. By 1970, the company held a majority stake in Kwan Yick Co., Ltd. (Kwan Yick), which owned major docks and warehouses in Hong Kong Island.

Kwan Yick's three warehouses in the Western District were rebuilt into a large commercial residential project between 1972 and 1976, and the docks and warehouses in North Point were developed into North Point Hopewell Centre.

In 1977, Whampoa Dockyard merged with Hutchison Enterprises Limited to form Hutchison Whampoa Limited, or Hutchison Whampoa. The business of Whampoa Dockyard shifted to real estate, and the management structure was expanded to include market and housing estate management departments, while the freight business was transferred to Hong Kong International Container Terminals Limited.

Historically, after Hutchison Whampoa was swallowed up by Li Ka Shing, Li Ka Shing only focused on the real estate industry and turned all the ports of Whampoa Dockyard into commercial real estate.

However, now that Yang Ming has swallowed up Hutchison Whampoa, he is not like Li Ka Shing.

Yang Ming still attaches great importance to Whampoa Dockyard.

One of them is about building large ships.

Now the Xiangjiang First Shipping Group under the Empire Group, in addition to some ships bought, there are also some that are made by themselves.

In this regard, Yang Ming has always learned from the Hyundai Group in history.

After all, the development of Hyundai Group's heavy industry and shipbuilding is not long, but later it can also become the world's first shipbuilding company.

In this case, Li Jiacheng does not attach importance to the shipbuilding industry, but Yang Ming still attaches great importance to it.

Now Yang Ming and others come here, in addition to seeing that Huangpu Dock is building ships.

In fact, he is now paying attention to another very important business of Huangpu Dock, that is, the shipbreaking business.

Historically, Xiangjiang's shipbreaking business has always been very large, including World War II, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, etc., a large number of scrapped ships were towed to Xiangjiang for re-dismantling and processing.

This also became an important part of the source of Xiangjiang steel at that time.

But later, Xiangjiang developed in the direction of real estate, and the business of Xiangjiang, Asia's and even the world's largest shipbreaking center, gradually became obsolete.

Today, it is rising again.

This is precisely because of Yang Ming.

Since two years ago, the Empire Group has started to do second-hand trading business in Soviet Union, and it is getting bigger and bigger. Soviet Union and Eastern Europe really have no money.

However, Soviet Union still has a lot of old ships.

During this period, in addition to the internal chaos and separation of Soviet Union, Soviet Union had to sell many ships as second-hand in order to obtain more finances.

And the Empire Group bought these second-hand old ships.

In addition to some, Yang Ming sold them to domestic and even Middle Eastern big dogs, and some of them were really too old and not very useful. Yang Ming directly had them towed back to the port near the Huangpu Dock in Hong Kong.

Then these scrapped ships from Soviet Union and even Yugoslavia were dismantled here, and a large amount of steel inside was then turned into the source of steel materials for the Hong Kong Steel Company and the Haojiang Steel Company.

These steels were bought back at a very cheap price, and then melted in a furnace to become new steel and exported to all parts of the world.

And now here, the Huangpu Dock Shipbreaking Group now has nearly 30,000 formal employees. According to the current situation, it may develop to 50,000 or even 60,000 employees.

Historically, this area had long been demolished by Li Jiacheng, and then built into commercial buildings and commercial housing estates.

However, now it has become a ship-breaking center.

This can be regarded as turning waste into treasure.

"Boss, there are too many old ships here."

Lin Xiuzhi and others stood on a high place and looked out. Seeing the densely packed old ships was still too terrifying.

And the Soviet Union, a big country, has a naval strength that is not inferior to Europe and the United States in history, so naturally there are a lot of old ships left.

"Soon, there will be big guys coming in."

Big goods?

"Boss, what big guy?"

"The Soviet Union's aircraft carrier."

The Soviet Union's aircraft carrier?

Lin Xiuzhi and others looked at all this in disbelief.

In the history of the Soviet Union Navy, a total of 9 so-called "aircraft carriers" have been built, of which 7 were officially put into service and 2 were abandoned before completion.

Among these nine aircraft carriers, two are Type 1123 "Moscow" class helicopter anti-submarine cruisers, three are Type 1143 "Kiev" class aircraft carriers, one is Type 1143.4 "Kiev modified" aircraft carrier, two are Type 1143.5 "Kuznetsov" class aircraft carriers, and one is Type 1143.7 "Ulyanovsk" class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

"Moscow" was launched on January 14, 1965, decommissioned on December 25, 1967, and dismantled in 1997.

"Leningrad" was launched on July 31, 1968, commissioned on June 2, 1969, and dismantled in 1995.

"Kiev" was launched on December 26, 1972, commissioned in February 1977, and decommissioned on June 30, 1993.

The "Minsk" was launched on September 27, 1975, entered service on September 27, 1978, and was decommissioned on May 30, 1992.

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In Yang Ming's opinion, these so-called Soviet aircraft carriers are not real aircraft carriers.

Moreover, they are not only very old, but also much worse than real European and American aircraft carriers in terms of performance.

Therefore, many of these aircraft carriers were sold soon after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In addition to being sold to various countries, some were directly dismantled.

And there is still one of them that is of great significance.

That is the "Varyag". In history, under very tortuous circumstances, it was sold to China by Ukraine and became the first aircraft carrier after domestic transformation.

Of course, this aircraft carrier has also been bought by Yang Ming now.

He has even notified the country in advance to let the country come and see if it is worthy of it. If it is worthy of it, it will be given to the country. If it is not worthy of it, then like the others, it will all be dismantled at that time.

At this time, all these big guys in Sulian were sold cheaply by Goose Country, Ukraine, and Sulian, and left Sulian one after another, and then prepared to come to Hong Kong.

As for why Europe and the United States agreed?

For Europe and the United States, this is actually weakening the strength of Sulian and even Goose Country. How could Europe and the United States not agree?