Chinese shipbuilding industry

Red Moon said:

I agree, but I am also specifically interested in seeing cooperation between Japan and China. Problems between SK and Japan can open up many possibilities, but of course, this gets political.

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There is growing tension between Japan and S. Korea. They had their own mini trade war spat, deciding to cut off things that both countries need to make smartphones with. JSDMF anniversary last year, they invited PLAN, but not the S. Korean Navy.

In terms of cooperation, I kind of feel that China doesn't want to offend one over the other, and play a neutral tone in any of their dispute.

Going green and greener. DSIC will be building two innovative VLCCs with partially assisted sail propulsion. Don't be surprised if this thing starts showing up in the Dalian shipyards.

Tam said:

Most certainly.

There was a time, not too long ago, that China completely relies on imported CNC, machine tools and lathes from Germany and Japan.

You can't imagine how important these machines are, because they are the cornerstone of all precision machining work you need to build anything from advanced planes to ships, especially their propellers --- you know the flak Toshiba took for selling such machines to the Soviet Union which used these to make cavitation free propellers. You need these machines to make things like the frames for smartphones.

Cutting the supplies of such would have immediately strangled China's manufacturing progress. So there was a program to hurriedly make Chinese made precision lathes, CNC, 3D machining tools and so on.

Today, China is a net exporter of such machines, and has the biggest global market share.

I see this parallel happening with semi-conductors now.

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And at that time The Japan and Germany and the US only exported non-advanced CNC, and only exported when China could make one as advanced, but now just a history

China State Shipbuilding Corp wins large LNG Carrier order from Qatar Petroleum.
Order to cover "Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group Co." LNG ship construction capacity through 2027

This is trip to Jiangnan Shipyard and take a good look at the 23,000 TEU LNG powered containership for CMA CGN. At 23,000 TEU, this is one of the largest boxships in the world. In one of the pictures below, you can see the floating dock that might be used to transport modules for carrier no. 3.



这期官方节目介绍参观前几天停在新港池的世界最大级23000TEU，一个镜头给到了在建的浮式装置。另有一个镜头给到了江南造船展示馆里的神秘展示装置。厂区会定期更新供参观的最新在建船只（应该仅限民船），江南造船工业旅游将于近期开放，目前只接受团体预约参观，最低20人成团，不接受个人预约。
Translated from Chinese by Google
This official program introduces the world's largest 23000TEU parked in Xingangchi a few days ago. A shot was given to the floating installation under construction. Another shot gave a mysterious display device in the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Exhibition Hall. The factory area will regularly update the latest ships under construction (should be limited to civilian ships). Jiangnan Shipbuilding Industry Tourism will be opened in the near future. At present, only group appointments are accepted for visits. A minimum of 20 people can form a group and individual appointments are not accepted.

Another picture of this monster ship on the background of the 052DL. Via LKJ86 at the PDF.

China on Tue released the dual-fuel, low-speed WinGD X92DF engine, the world’s biggest of its kind for modern large and ultra-large container ships. It fulfills Tier III emissions reduction requirements set by the and is equipped with a remote intelligent monitoring platform.

The top leadership of Jiangnan ship yard recently paid a visit to Bohai shipyard to conduct detailed exchanges on product development and personnel training, etc. This visit follows up on earlier exchanges between the two shipyards.

Of course, Bohai has a lot of experience building nuclear-powered submarines. Jiangnan has no experience with nuclear power plants. I wonder if this exchange has to do with the future nuclear icebreaker, which is likely to be built at Jiangnan.

by78 said:

The top leadership of Jiangnan ship yard recently paid a visit to Bohai shipyard to conduct detailed exchanges on product development and personnel training, etc. This visit follows up on earlier exchanges between the two shipyards.

Of course, Bohai has a lot of experience building nuclear-powered submarines. Jiangnan has no experience with nuclear power plants. I wonder if this exchange has to do with the future nuclear icebreaker, which is likely to be built at Jiangnan.

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Possible, as Jiangnan is also building Xuelong 3, although this one is still diesel electric, the next ice breaker might be nuclear powered and built also in Jiangnan. But you can also take it as the nuclear powered ice breaker may also be a test platform that can eventually lead to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

Tam said:

But you can also take it as the nuclear powered ice breaker may also be a test platform that can eventually lead to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

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That seems to be the plan, according to the big shrimps.