Chapter 2071: The World's No. 1 Freighter

In Yangshan Port, the magic city, this world-class port just completed this year has gathered many media from all over the world today. Just a port, of course, will not be so eye-catching, but today a new ship naming and handover ceremony will be held here.

If it is an aircraft carrier, it is normal to attract global attention. After all, this is a maritime supremacy weapon, but so many media reports will never be allowed. But what was handed over today was nothing more than a freighter, but this freighter was the largest freighter in the world!

The world's largest cargo ship was Nanyang's Knox Nevis, a super-large crude oil carrier once named Sea Giant, which was designed and manufactured by Sumitomo Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. of the island country.

However, this Knock Nevis was just declared scrapped last month. In fact, the transportation cost of this ship has been rising continuously in the past two years. The fuel consumption is too high, and the maintenance and operation costs remain high. There is no more money.

So when everyone was still fighting for the title of the world's number one freighter, Huaxia issued an announcement that a super-large freighter with a length of more than 400 meters, a width of 60 meters, and a height of more than 73 meters had been produced. Completed, the number of fully loaded containers reached 19,530, the highest in history.

Another point is that this freighter carries the largest double propeller engine. Although the horsepower is not the largest, it is just suitable for this freighter.

This ship belongs to the Taihua Holding Group. Today, not only the representative of Huaxia Shipbuilding Industry, the designer and manufacturer, and the representative of Taihua Holding Group, but also Zhang Ruiqiang, the leader of Huaxia, is here.

Zhang Ruiqiang was invited to give an opening speech. He declined and walked to the stage. Seeing so many business representatives and media representatives in the audience, Zhang Ruiqiang was very excited.

How backward was China's shipbuilding industry in the past, and there was a gap of more than 20 years from developed countries. But now, Huaxia has been able to design and manufacture the world's largest freighter by itself.

Moreover, the design and manufacture by himself was completely done by the Chinese themselves. He did not cooperate with foreign shipbuilding companies or invite foreign designers, which made him feel very proud.

Huaxia Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd., although the country has given a lot of capital investment, in fact, most of them are for naval~military~military equipment, and civilian use is only as an auxiliary.

Later, I learned from those foreign shipyards and developed with both hands. Military and civilian use were carried out simultaneously, and the income from civilian use was used to subsidize military investment.

And when the company reported that it was going to build the world's largest freighter, Zhang Ruiqiang and the others didn't believe it.

One is that China's technology is not as powerful as foreign countries, especially the island countries and South Korea. As for Europe and the United States, they can be compared.

In addition, I also think that to build such a large ship, who will sell it to? They all wanted to see which shipping group placed the order, and why didn't they know it before?

When they saw the name of the company that placed the order, they were all stunned. It was not a large state-owned enterprise as they thought, but Taihua Holding Group, Feng Yu's enterprise.

They are very curious, Taihua Holding Group, does not have logistics trade? If it is to build a ship for transporting minerals, it is relatively normal, after all, Feng Yu controls the world's largest mining group.

Minerals transportation must mainly use freighters, but the freighters that transport minerals are different from the freighters that use containers to transport minerals. Bulk carriers are used to transport minerals.

Someone asked, did Feng Yu order it for someone else? But it was immediately rejected by other people. It was clearly written on it that it was for personal use.

If it is really ordering for others, why use the name of Taihua Holdings? It's not that they are not allowed to sell ships, let alone for civilian use, this is a normal trade.

Zhang Ruiqiang called Feng Yu and asked if there was a mistake. Feng Yu said bluntly that this boat was customized according to his requirements. And one is not enough, he needs at least five.

Because the price he gave was very high, it was stated in the contract of Huaxia Shipbuilding Industry,

Their order has priority and will be completed as soon as possible. After this one is delivered, the remaining four will be delivered within three years.

Although it is said that Taihua Holding Group itself does not have logistics business, who said it must not be carried out?

The logistics company they opened with Fengfeng Logistics and Shunfeng Logistics in the United States has already opened. This ship is a merchant ship used to travel between the United States and China.

The goods of the subsidiaries of Taihua Holding Group and Fengfeng Holding Group alone can guarantee that there is no shortage of transportation orders for this freighter. If the international logistics business is added, one ship is far from enough.

Their ship is comparable to the previous two ships, but the operating cost is only 70% of the sum of the previous two ships. How much cost can be saved and how much profit can be increased by this part alone.

If it was before, then it would be impossible for this big ship to dock in the United States. The draft must be close to 16 meters deep, and those ports in the United States simply cannot reach it.

But now there is no need to worry, there is already a wharf berth that has been rebuilt to accommodate such a giant cargo ship. This first voyage will be to Los Angeles, the United States, from China's magic capital, and stop at an island country to load and unload some cargo.

After Zhang Ruiqiang delivered the opening speech, the handover ceremony began, and the chairman of Huaxia Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. and Zong Qingxian signed the handover. This customized ship, currently the world's largest cargo ship, was named Taihua.

Standing on the side of Taihua, anyone will feel their own insignificance. All eyes are fixed on this behemoth.

Some shipping experts have studied that freighters with 18,000 to 20,000 standard containers will be the mainstream at sea in the future. With large carrying capacity and low operating cost, it will be the choice of all shipping companies.

In theory, larger ones, such as freighters with 22,000 to 23,000 standard containers, should be manufactured with existing technology.

But why haven't companies ordered it? Is it too expensive? No, because there are no ports to call at.

Not to mention the United States, before Feng Yu and Li Chaoren invested, the west coast could not even stop at the port of 12,000 freighters. In places with better port development in Asia and Europe, it is difficult to dock such a large ship, and the cost of rebuilding the dock is too high to be cost-effective.

In the future, Fengyu Logistics and Shunfeng Logistics will each need two freighters of this size. As these freighters dock all over the world, the names of these two logistics companies will become more and more famous, and their business will also develop more and more. the better.

The media kept taking photos and interviews. The bosses of some companies have already begun to communicate with the chairman of Huaxia Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. about the cost of the ship and the approximate operating cost. If it is suitable, they will also order it.

Seeing these situations, Zhang Ruiqiang was very excited. Huaxia's shipbuilding industry has risen!