Do we have any idea what those production lines will make after the destroyers ? Or will they shift personnel to speed up fitting them ?
Both shipyards are actually quite busy with LNG powered or scrubber fitted container ships and LNG carriers.
World shipping lines are in a major transition of retiring older, dirtier for cleaner burning ships. EU has imposed green standards that tighten every year, and ships have to meet these standards in order to enter EU ports.
The profits for making these ships could be better than making warships, so these shipyards might be eager to shift more resources into building these ships.
This is also true of Hudong Zhonghua, but their facility to build commercials ships and LNG carriers is located in Changxing Island, next to Jiangnan Shipyard, while their facility in Huangpu river which is the one that builds the military ships appears to have a steady flow of military contracts. The warship facility is too small to build large commercial ships. This facility is currently busy with 054AP after launching the 075s, and I believe after the 054AP, the Thai 071E is next along with the first 057/054B.
PLAN is the one giving out these contracts, if they paused 052D and 055 production, they should have a good reason of its own. It might be possible a next generation of 052X might be in the works, along with an improved 055. They might also be increasing nuclear sub production. Who knows.
JIangnan will certainly be busy with 003, and they also have other projects like Yuelong 3, China's second domestic ice breaker, which is going to be double the displacement of Yuelong 2.
Also would be neat if people take shots of what Guanzhou Huangpu shipyard is doing. We have not seen pictures of that shipyard of late, when we used to have tons of them before.
