Haiyan Shipping Company's current main businesses are large oil tankers, ore ships, container ships, ro-ro ships, liquefied natural gas ships, etc. Among them, large oil tankers and container ships are their first related manufacturing businesses.
Previously, Shangtong Trading Company had to entrust third-party international shipping giants to handle cargo transportation. With the increase in business volume, especially the retail companies under the trading company, the volume of goods required is increasing.
In fact, Shangtong Trading Company has long wanted to do this business on its own, not only because the scale of its own export trade has continued to increase, but more importantly, my country's overall export trade has also become larger and larger.
The market space here is very broad, and there is no need to take advantage of others. Especially when building a full logistics system yourself, the shipping link is particularly important.
It was just that Haiyan Shipping Company had just been established, and it was impossible to build a large number of container ships in a short period of time. The matter was delayed, and third-party shipping companies continued to be responsible for this area of shipping business.
What makes people angry is that these international shipping giants have actually increased the price of my country's maritime cargo transportation. This makes Shangtong Trading Company feel that it is more appropriate to control this link in their own hands.
Of course, the increase in shipping prices is not just for Shangtong Trading Company, but also for other domestic companies. However, according to the survey of Shangtong Trading Company, shipping prices in other countries have not increased.
In other words, there are suspicions of special price increases in our country, which makes Shangtong Trading Company even more uncomfortable. You must know that Shangtong Trading Company is the largest player in the current export trade, and it is the one that suffers the most interests.
It’s just that there were not enough cargo ships on hand at the time, so they could only endure their price increases without causing an attack. However, it has almost become their consensus to deal with these international shipping companies in the future.
However, even if Qianfan Shipping Company is operational, it will be impossible to completely take over their transportation orders in a short period of time, so it will take some time to fulfill this wish.
More importantly, it is unclear whether these international shipping companies will use price increases to target themselves when shipping orders are handed over to Qianship Shipping Company, but they will not be proud for a long time.
As Haiyan Shipbuilding Company has more and more shipyards in its hands, and its use of segmented shipbuilding technology has become more and more proficient, their shipbuilding speed and quantity have been greatly improved.
Especially after Qianfeng Shipping Company was officially put into operation, it began to place large-scale ship orders with Haiyan Shipping Company, of which the number of container ships accounted for an important proportion.
Shangtong Trading Company is now also preparing to transfer its share of shipping goods to Qianfeng Shipping Company bit by bit. This is not only its brother company, but it will not only increase prices for our country.
Not to mention that the two companies are a problem of the same boss, and the capital exchange between the two is just like the difference between the left hand and the right hand, let us say that the communication problem between the two is much smoother than that of other shipping companies.
Shangtong Trading Company has currently built a relatively complete logistics system, but the shipping part is slightly insufficient. It is not that they have not communicated with the shipping company, and the result is not smooth at all.
Maybe our country's shipping strength was not strong at that time, and the international shipping giants thought that they would dominate Shangtong Trading Company, which would cause Shangtong Trading Company to want their cooperation, but they had a condescending attitude.
Now that Qianfan Shipping Company has just started operating, Shangtong Trading Company has already begun to make plans to reduce the volume of freight orders from other international shipping giants and gradually transfer these orders to Qianfan Shipping Company.
However, Shangtong Trading Company has formulated an order transfer plan, so Qianfeng Shipping Company must cooperate with the trading company's plan and increase the number of cargo ships in its hands to be enough to support the trading company's maritime freight volume.
Therefore, Haiyan Shipping Company is currently giving priority to manufacturing container ships and ro-ro ships from Qianfeng Shipping Company. As for large oil tankers, it is also available, but the speed is not as fast as before.
It's not that they have received few orders, but that their current shipbuilding capabilities are limited. Although their number of shipyards is sufficient, the number of skilled workers they have is still very limited.
In addition, a large number of large oil tankers have been provided to Huaxia International Petrochemical Company before, which has basically met the oil transportation needs of Huaxia International Petrochemical Company.
As for other domestic oil companies, their main business is still the extraction of domestic oil, and there is not much oil import business involved. This area is now dominated by Huaxia International Petrochemical Company.
Especially during this period of time, when oil prices plummeted, it was the best time for them to complete their strategic oil reserves. Their original tanker transportation volume was insufficient, but these orders could be entrusted to other shipping companies to complete them.
The current strong demand for crude oil is only a short-term behavior. When the strategic petroleum reserve is completed, the import volume of crude oil will drop rapidly and return to the normal track.
It stands to reason that now that oil prices are so low, major oil-producing countries should start to reduce production, because if this continues, everyone will make less money. This is indeed what they did in previous lives.
However, what is interesting is that Saudi Arabia has signed several large orders with Yaoguang Environmental Management Company before, mainly involving land environmental management and seawater desalination plants, both of which cost Saudi Arabia a huge amount of money.
At present, Saudi Arabia has just acquired its own oil fields from European and American oil giants, and is not as generous as later generations, so it uses oil payment for part of the fund payment.
If oil is used to pay, the price of oil will be cheaper than the market price. Then Yaoguang Environmental Management Company will transfer the oil paid by Saudi Arabia to China International Petrochemical Company.
This has resulted in China International Petrochemical Company recently importing a large amount of oil from Saudi Arabia. Oil consumption in the international market has reached a certain bottleneck, and it is very difficult to expand the market size.
The current main oil market growth point is my country, which has caused Saudi Arabia's share of global oil exports to increase significantly. It seems that OPEC's previous increase in production has achieved great success in grabbing international oil resources.
But if you think about it carefully, as the world's major oil consumption growth market, our country currently mainly purchases a large amount of oil from Saudi Arabia. Although other member states have also received a lot of purchase orders, it also depends on who they compare with.
So other member states saw the situation in Saudi Arabia and of course they had to study it carefully. They found out that there was something fishy in it, and the environmental problems faced by Middle Eastern countries were basically not much different from Saudi Arabia.
Therefore, they have also sent inspection groups to Yaoguang Environmental Management Company to inspect and discuss project cooperation. According to the monthly report of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, the probability of success of these cooperation projects is very high.
It doesn't matter whether they have money or not. Most of them have abundant oil reserves. If they don't dig out and sell this oil, it will be waste. Only when it is sold can value be created. Paying with oil is the most realistic problem at present.
In addition, Saudi Arabia is very concerned about the management of the land environment. These oil countries with the same problems are beginning to follow suit. After all, the oil will be dug out one day, but if the land environment is managed, at least people will not starve to death. .
If land environmental management is still a long-term goal, then desalination plants are what they urgently need. These major oil-producing countries are generally in a state of severe water shortage.
Previously, there were seawater desalination technologies in the world. The simplest one was distillation technology. This cost was too high. Later, reverse osmosis membrane technology was invented to separate seawater solutions and solutes, and the cost was further reduced.
In 1983, Saudi Arabia had already built a desalination plant with a daily output of 300,000 tons, but these desalination technologies were much inferior to the biofilm desalination technology of Fluclight Environmental Management Company.
The seawater desalination plant of Lucky Light Environmental Management Company has the following advantages:
First, the desalination output is very large. The 300,000-ton daily desalination plant previously built by Saudi Arabia is already quite large. However, with the same factory scale, the seawater desalination plant of Lucky Light Environmental Management Company can produce 1 million tons per day.
In other words, when the fixed investment is similar, the output between the two is hugely different, which virtually reduces the depreciation cost of fixed investment per unit of aquatic product.
Second, the quality of seawater desalination is the highest. Although they are all desalinated water, the quality is very different. The water coming out of the seawater desalination plant of Fluclight Environmental Management Company can be drank directly.
Third, the overall cost advantage is obvious. The cost of seawater desalination is mainly the cost of electricity and the cost of thin films. However, by using the biological seawater desalination film of Fluclight Environmental Management Company, the cost of electricity has been greatly reduced.
Because this kind of biofilm does not require pressure osmosis, but uses the biomolecules in the biofilm to automatically transport water molecules through the film, which greatly reduces the power consumption.
If these cooperation agreements are really signed, Huaxia International Petrochemical Company will import a large amount of oil resources from Middle Eastern countries in the future, which will require a huge oil transportation fleet.
Therefore, for a long period of time in the future, large oil tankers will still be the main type of ships manufactured by Haiyan Shipping Company, and they will mainly be supplied to Qianfeng Shipping Company.
In addition to the above two ship types, the number of orders for ore ships has suddenly increased. This is closely related to the domestic infrastructure development plan that our country has just passed.
Whether it is infrastructure construction or urbanization construction, a large amount of metal materials are needed, of which iron ore is the main metal material. This has caused a surge in the number of special ores imported into our country.
These ore ships are mainly used to transport ore products, and the main customer is still Qianfeng Shipping Company. In this trend, Qianfeng Shipping Company certainly does not want to miss such a good opportunity to get involved in this business.
What Zhao Yi pays more attention to is the first LNG ship being developed and manufactured by Haiyan Shipbuilding Company. This is known as the crown in the field of commercial ship manufacturing, which shows how high the technical difficulty is.
In fact, my country's current import demand for liquefied natural gas is not large. People are not wealthy enough to use natural gas for heating, and even fewer use natural gas for cooking.
Therefore, the buyer of this ship is still Qianfeng Shipping Company. It is mainly used to help Huaxia International Petrochemical Company transport natural gas. As for other customers, it currently does not have it.
Huaxia International Petrochemical Company now has a very wide business scope. They are involved in all chemical products produced using petroleum as the main raw material, but the proportion of the business varies.
As mentioned before, Huaxia International Petrochemical Company now occupies the largest position in the manufacturing and production of agricultural fertilizers. Because the fertilizers they produce have a very good protective effect on the soil, they are much more advanced than the fertilizers produced by other companies.
This allows them to occupy a higher and higher share of the global fertilizer market, especially in the field of nitrogen fertilizers. Their global market share is getting higher and higher. This kind of fertilizer that can be produced without mining is the most popular product of Huaxia International Petrochemical Company. Loved it.
Potassium fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, etc. also need to be mined for special mineral deposits. It is very difficult for Huaxia International Petrochemical Company to get involved in these fields. These resources have already been occupied by others.
However, this situation will also change greatly in the future. After the seawater desalination plant jointly developed by Lucky Light Environmental Management Company and Saudi Arabia is completed and put into operation, potassium can be extracted from it.
Based on the daily production of 5 million tons of fresh water, it can provide millions of tons of potassium materials for potash fertilizers every year. And as more and more seawater desalination plants are built by Lucky Light Environmental Management Company, more raw materials will be provided. .
Closer to home, the main raw materials for the production of nitrogen fertilizer are natural gas, coal and oil, so now their demand for natural gas is getting higher and higher, and the amount of imports is also increasing.
In the past, petroleum was mainly used for the production of nitrogen fertilizers, but petroleum resources can be used in a wider range of other fields. Now Huaxia International Petrochemical Company has begun to switch its nitrogen fertilizer production raw materials to natural gas.
This requires a special shipping vessel that can transport large amounts of natural gas, which is why Haiyan Shipping Company began special research and development of LNG ships a long time ago.
As for why Haiyan Shipbuilding Company has to wait until it has manufacturing capabilities before starting procurement, in addition to wanting to keep profits in its own hands as much as possible, the more important reason is the high level of energy conservation.
This still involves advanced engine technology and overall energy-saving technology. This energy-saving technology is not only reflected in aircraft and cars, but also in shipping vessels.
In addition to saving energy in the power system, the special paint developed by Cornerstone Materials can significantly reduce marine life attachments on the ship, which can not only reduce the weight of the ship, but also reduce the resistance during navigation.
According to actual tests conducted by Haiyan Shipping Company, the energy consumption of the ships they manufactured is only about 70% of that of ships of the same type and tonnage. This alone significantly reduces transportation costs.
In addition to reduced energy costs, maintenance costs will also be significantly reduced, and the operating life of the vessel will be significantly extended, which further reduces the operating cost of the vessel.
This is why Zhao Yi's companies have to wait for Haiyan Shipping Company to build the relevant ships before purchasing their own ships. Before that, they would rather hand over the orders to other shipping companies.
According to Zhao Yi's plan, after Qianfeng Shipping Company's fleet is officially formed, shipping prices will be brought down and other shipping companies will be slowly driven out of the industry.
As a newcomer in the shipping industry, if you want to get a share of this vast market, you must fight a price war. Otherwise, you will have to take over some business from your own brother companies to make a living.
This was not Zhao Yi's original intention to establish Qianfeng Shipping Company. Now that he has established a specialized company, he hopes that they will become an industry giant in this field.
The most powerful form of competition is the price war. The price is directly set close to the profit line of other shipping companies, or even below. As long as the traders are not related to the special railway, they are willing to hand over the transportation business to Qianfeng Shipping Company. .
Moreover, in order to prevent Qianfeng Shipping Company from being controlled by others in cargo ports, they will gradually invest in global port construction and acquire shares in major ports, so that they will not be stuck in this regard.
It can be seen from this that Haiyan Shipping Company does not need to worry about their order volume now or in the future. Qianfeng Shipping Company alone can eat up all their production capacity.
What they are worried about now is not the problem of ship orders, but the problem of production. This problem has been with them since their establishment, and there is no obvious sign of easing until now.
In other words, Haiyan Shipping Company's orders have been scheduled for several years. During this period, they did not sell a single ship to the outside world.
Although the manufacturers of commercial ships may not look good, in fact their prices are no lower than warships. For example, the price quoted to Qianfeng Shipping Company for a liquefied natural gas ship reaches 600 million yuan.
Although the price of large oil tankers is not as high as that of liquefied natural gas ships, it has reached the price of 300 million yuan per unit, which is more expensive than the price on the market.
Due to its advanced technology and low operating costs, this price is still the internal price of Qianfeng Shipping Company and gives a very large discount to the brother company.
If it is sold out, the price of a LNG ship is at least 800 million yuan, and the price of a large oil tanker is at least 400 million yuan. These prices are much higher than those of other shipbuilding companies in the world.
Although the unit price is higher than those outside, due to its extremely low operating expenses and long lifespan, it is still a very cost-effective deal in the long run.
After seeing the situation at Haiyan Shipping Company, Zhao Yi then went alone to Qianfeng Shipping Company headquartered in Qingdao to see what the situation was like on their side.
When he arrived in Qingdao, Sun He, the president of Qianfeng Shipping Company, came to pick him up. Since the company had only been in operation for a few days, it was Zhao Yi's first time here. He didn't really know the location of their headquarters. .
When they arrived at their headquarters, Zhao Yi thought that it was as expected. Just like the headquarters of P&G Daily Chemical Company, it looked very shabby and not at all like a company with a huge sum of 50 billion yuan.
Before Zhao Yi listened to Sun He's report, he first went to the employees' office area to see how the employees were working here. He also wanted to see how Sun He's management level was.
It turned out that the current staff here are only three or two kittens, and the number of employees in the entire headquarters has not exceeded 100. There is still a lot of free space in the headquarters they rented.
"Our company has only been in operation for a few days, and it has only been a few days since we started recruiting employees. These are administrative staff, and the number of applicants is pretty good, so we were able to find so many people." Sun He explained to Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi also knew that what Sun He said was true. In Zhao Yi's company, the requirements for administrative staff are not that high, and many general tasks are assisted by intelligent management systems.
Zhao nodded without making any comment, and then followed Sun He to his office to listen to the operation of Qianfeng Shipping Company during this period. (End of chapter)