Turn the crisis into a business opportunity and move towards the high end of the industry chain

China Jiangsu Net News (Reporter Fu Qi) Jiangsu has been one of the largest shipbuilding provinces in the country for 11 consecutive years. There are nearly 4,000 shipbuilding enterprises, including more than 420 shipbuilding enterprises above designated size. Last year, the province’s shipbuilding completed 18.017 million deadweight tons, accounting for 49.1% of the national share, achieved sales of 118.09 billion yuan, an increase of 17.4% year-on-year, and has formed a 100 billion-class shipbuilding industry chain.

Facing the "huge wave" of the global epidemic, what crises are Jiangsu's shipbuilding industry facing, and where will it be "navigating"? As of mid-to-early April, the invoiced sales of the shipbuilding industry in our province increased by over 16%. "Achieving growth against the trend is due to the fact that companies mainly confirm sales based on the production progress of orders in hand. Therefore, the early stage of the epidemic was not significantly affected, and the global spread of the epidemic will have a greater impact on the performance of invoicing sales in the second quarter." Provincial Shipbuilding Industry According to the analysis of relevant persons in the industry association, looking at the international "ship market", affected by the epidemic, the continuing sluggish shipping and shipbuilding market has "made worse", and confidence in new ship investment has been further frustrated. This situation is likely to continue for a long time.

However, there is something in danger. Last year, the province’s shipbuilding industry accounted for nearly half of the country’s shipbuilding orders and one-fifth of the world. Orders for shipbuilding in the new era have been scheduled to 2022, and there is still time to wait for the industry to recover and transform and upgrade.

"Our province's shipbuilding industry should shift to high technology and high added value to seize international market share." The person in charge of New Era Shipbuilding said that in order to break the monopoly of some countries in the refrigeration technology of LNG ships, the company tried to redesign LNG ships with compression technology. , Is currently in the design, modeling and demonstration stage, and urgently needs support in technical welding. "The impact and potential risks brought by the epidemic have highlighted the necessity of intelligent transformation of enterprises." Xu Rong said, cruise ships are known as the "jewel in the crown" of the shipbuilding industry. ability. China Merchants Heavy Industry is carrying out the construction of an intelligent cruise shipyard, with more than 3 billion yuan invested in intelligent equipment alone. He suggested that the relevant provincial departments issue a "point-to-point" policy for the intelligent and automated transformation of the shipbuilding industry to help enterprises get rid of their dependence on foreign technology as soon as possible.

"In the long run, it is necessary to increase financial support for shipbuilding enterprises in credit and financing, and support the development of the shipbuilding industry to the high end of the industrial chain." Chen Xiong, Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, suggested. For example, the provincial government takes the lead to form a bank credit consortium and adopts "one company, one policy" differentiated credit; for possible risks of abandoning ships, the Jiangsu Branch of the Export-Import Bank of China takes the lead and the United Insurance Company develops special insurance business. Abandoned ships implemented price difference acquisitions, and jointly expanded ocean shipping financial leasing business with leading national transportation companies, and worked hard to turn crises into business opportunities.