Xinhua Daily news, according to Nanjing Customs statistics, from January to August this year, Jiangsu exported RMB 69.27 billion (about $ 9.80 billion) of various types of ships, the export scale ranks first in China, an increase of 75.1% year-on-year. Among them, private shipbuilders exports RMB 29.65 billion (about $4.20 billion), an increase of 128.4%, accounting for 42.8% of the province’s ship exports. Container ships, liquid cargo ships, bulk carriers, three major ship types increased by 129.7%, 155%, 17.8%, respectively.
At the China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) wharf in Haimen, Nantong, a naming ceremony for the second Aurora-class 9,100 CEU ro-ro ship, “Höegh Borealis”, was recently held. It will be put into commercial operation as the world’s largest active ro-ro ship.
Since the beginning of this year, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, shipbuilding completion, new orders, hand-held orders have increased significantly by more than 40%, the enterprise delivery, hand-held, new undertakings of offshore equipment more than 150, is expected to exceed 200 billion yuan of total output value for the year.
Since the beginning of this year, shipbuilding enterprises shipbuilding completion volume, the volume of new orders, the volume of hand-held orders have increased significantly by more than 40%, the enterprise delivery, hand-held, new undertakings of offshore equipment more than 150 ships, is expected to exceed 200 billion yuan of total output value for the year.
This year, the shipbuilding completion, new orders undertook, hand-held orders of ship enterprises in Nantong City Jiangsu Province, have increased sharply by more than 40%. The shipbuilders has delivered, handheld and newly undertaken more than 150 offshore equipments, and the annual total output value is expected to exceed RMB 200 billion (about $28.3 billion).
Jiangsu Yangzi-Mitsui Shipbuilding in Taicang has successfully delivered a 40,000 cbm dual-fuel liquefied petroleum gas/liquid ammonia (LPG) carrier.
The LPG is equipped with the world’s first VL4-4 three-ear C-type tank made of cryogenic carbon-manganese steel, which greatly improves the utilization rate of the liquid cargo compartment space. The shipbuilder holds an orderbook of 40,000 cbm medium-sized clean energy gas carriers, which accounts for about 20% of the global market, and has a full schedule of hand-held orders until 2028.
More and more “Jiangsu-made” bulk carriers to win the favor of global customers. Located in Jiangyin, CSSC Chengxi Shipyard’s self-dischargers, asphalt tankers, multi-purpose ships etc. are leading the world in terms of the share of orders.
“Different from ordinary bulk carriers, self-discharging bulk carriers belong to high value-added class ships, with extremely high unloading efficiency and seaworthiness. Taking a 26,000 DWT self-discharging bulk carrier as an example, it takes about five hours to offload the whole cargo, while it takes at least two or three days to complete it for an ordinary bulk carrier.” Huang Gang, manager of the company’s shipbuilding operation department, introduced.