China's first new energy ship landing in Hunan domino effect
On August 27, "the country's first supercapacitor new energy car-passenger ferry" built by Yiyang Zhonghai Shipping Company, a subsidiary of Yaguang Technology Group, was launched for trial.
Two days later, the container ship "Xiangshui Yun 27" of Hunan Ocean Container Transportation Co., a subsidiary of Xiangshui Group, a local state-owned enterprise, sailed from Chenglingji port in Yueyang to Yangshan Port in Shanghai. The official platform of Yangshan Port said that this is "the second domestic 10,000-ton class specific route Jianghai direct dual-fuel container ship."
And the first ship of the same type, also from Hunan ocean collection. The new energy ship "made in Hunan" has become a hot word.
Where is the "new" of new energy ships
The "country's first" new energy passenger ferry, the most concerned about the outside world, is that it uses super capacitor power.
Its remarkable characteristics are first of all environmental protection, a ship can save about 500 tons of fuel every year, which fully conforms to the requirements of the national advocacy of green ecological water transport. Secondly, it is fast and convenient to charge, and the charging can be completed during the short docking time of tourists on and off the ship. Third, the service life is long and durable, this ship is equipped with two sets of supercapacitor batteries, a total energy storage of 625 KWH, charge and discharge cycles are not less than 200,000 times. Fourth, its hull rotation performance is better, this passenger ferry is 65 meters long, equipped with two sets of full rotation rudder OARS, can achieve 360 degrees of arbitrary rotation, flexible and practical.
As for the speed, it is not as fast as the outside world guessed. Pang Mu, research and development director of Yaguang Technology Group, told reporters that the supercapacitor new energy passenger ferry speed is only more than 10 kilometers per hour, at the request of Shanghai Passenger Ferry Co., LTD., the ship will be used to pick up passengers between Chongming Changxing Island and Hengsha Island after arriving in Shanghai.
The supercapacitor new energy passenger ferry project took nearly a year and a half from research and development to launch. Yaguang Technology Group implemented more of the construction work, and the design and research and development were mainly undertaken by the research institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation.
Building such a passenger ferry, the cost is not elegant, Pang Mu revealed: the cost needs 50 to 60 million yuan. At present, this is more like an experiment done at the national level, the application of new energy and new technology on ships, and there is a gradual improvement process behind it.
Hunan ocean shipping set a number of first
What Hunan Ocean Shipping refreshes the industry's cognition is its sixth generation representative - two 10,000-ton new power container ships, that is, the container ship "Hunan Water Transport 27" launched at the end of August this year, and the sister ship "Hunan Water Transport 26" put into use in December last year.
As soon as the "Hunan Water Transport 26" ship came out, it set a number of "first" : the first 10,000-ton container ship built in Hunan province, the first direct container ship from the river to the sea in Hunan province, the first domestic dual-fuel power unit applied on a new large container ship, and the first domestic container rail frame applied on an inland vessel.
The so-called dual fuel power, that is, the use of diesel and liquid natural gas (referred to as "LNG"). The container ship is equipped with two dual-fuel engines as the main power, and the replacement rate of liquid natural gas is more than 75% through technical means. In this way, the ship not only reduces pollution, loading and unloading operation time is also reduced, and the comprehensive carbon emissions are reduced by more than 15% and fuel costs are reduced by more than 20% compared with the same type of pure diesel ships.
Like the "Hunan Water Transport 26", the "Hunan Water Transport 27" has a total length of 118.9 meters, a design draft of 6 meters, a packing capacity of 653 TEus, and a load capacity of 10,289 tons.
What is the concept of 653 TEU? According to international practice, 20-foot-long containers are standard containers, and a TEU can load more than 20 tons of goods. Taking the maximum weight of 49 tons on the highway as an example, a 10,000-ton container ship takes a trip, equivalent to the volume of more than 200 of the largest trucks, and while the load is large and safe, the freight per hour is more than 10 times lower.
Different from the "Hunan Water Transport 26" wheel, the "Hunan Water transport 27" wheel equipment quality, safety and environmental protection performance have been improved, the kitchen, restaurant and living area facilities and equipment on board are more perfect, especially worth mentioning is that both wheels have added a "sacred" - guide rail.
The application of guide rail frame in inland ships is the first in Hunan ocean container transport.
Chen Qingming, director of the office of Hunan Ocean Shipping Shipbuilding Group and senior ocean captain, told reporters that the application of the guide rail frame not only improves safety, but also improves operational efficiency, "there is no need to place safety locks one by one in the cargo hold, which greatly improves the efficiency of loading and unloading operations at the dock and greatly reduces the labor intensity of the crew." After all the boxes are loaded, the bundling can be completed in half an hour at Yangshan Port, and if there is no rail frame, it may take three or four hours to complete."
Ship-enterprise cooperation is win-win
In the reporter's view, two new energy "national first show" projects have landed in Hunan, and built by local enterprises, which itself has released a positive signal: Hunan shipbuilding industry, has the ability to take on more and more important tasks, but also can carry more national projects landing.
There is also a positive signal that in the face of market competition, mainland water transport enterprises are actively responding to the national strategy while seeking their own survival and development, and contributing wisdom and strength to promote the realization of the "double carbon" goal. Once new energy and new technologies are promoted, more and more enterprises will consciously join the "zero emission" and "zero pollution" camp.
Hunan Jinhang Shipbuilding Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "Jinhang Shipbuilding"), which engaged in the construction of 10,000-ton dual-fuel container ships, invested nearly 10 million yuan to build a new berth and installed a gantry crane with a safety load of 150 tons, in full accordance with the process requirements of classification society (ship inspection organization). In the end, the quality of the construction of the two new ships became the benchmark for their peers.
Yuanjiang City water system developed, shipbuilding has a long history, but the reporter for the local shipbuilding industry before the overall impression, still stay in the workhouse, small and scattered level, the golden ship can have such courage, it is really impressive.
Being pragmatic, offering low prices and being very active in the container ship sector - these factors helped Golden Airlines win out over many bidders. The choice turned out to be a win-win situation:
Hunan Ocean Consolidated transportation saves the capital cost and time cost, and the resources are optimized to the maximum. The company sends personnel to participate in the design and supervision, etc., and the construction process is high-quality and efficient. Through this order, Golden Hang Shipping has promoted itself to complete an overall upgrade after enduring challenges, and since then, it has "made a name for itself" in the field of large container ship manufacturing, and its brand and reputation have risen.
Jinhang Ship is located in the Yuanjiang ship Industrial Park, surrounded by water on three sides, and is only separated by a wall from Yiyang Zhonghai Ship Company, the builder of the supercapacitor passenger ferry.
After the two local ship manufacturing enterprises became famous, the influence of foreign economic cooperation in Yuanjiang City characteristic industrial Park and Yiyang City is also a rare good. After the successful launch of the ship "Xiangshui 26", the official evaluation of Yuanjiang City: "The successful first voyage of the ship has milestone significance for the shipbuilding industry in our city, which indicates that the ship products in our city have gone out of the lake township, Tongjiang and the sea."
Yuanjiang City to develop the ship construction industry, as well as "near the water tower" academic and scientific research advantages - Yiyang Vocational and technical college is the only university in Hunan set up a ship mechanical and electrical engineering major. High recruitment, dean of the school's ship design Institute, told reporters: the school has established a long-term cooperative relationship with a number of ship manufacturing enterprises, the Ministry of Education "apprenticeship" is being implemented at the school, students' practical ability is generally strong, graduates are very popular, "industry-university-research integration" pattern has been formed.
Yuanjiang and Chenglingji: What we want is the effect of industrial agglomeration
In an interconnected system, a small amount of initial energy can create a chain reaction known as the "domino effect." The emergence of new energy passenger ferries and 10,000-ton container ships is causing this effect in Hunan.
The "Hunan Water Transport 26 rounds" has been operating for more than 8 months, completing 13 round trips, the ship profit margin is 79%, the sailing time is shortened from the expected 21 days to 18.6 days, and the water transport is attracting more industry cargo sources to join.
Because it can load frozen containers and transport dangerous goods, Hunan's fireworks and fresh agricultural products will increase the capacity of 10,000 tons, and the lifting of cargo carrying capacity and handling power will directly promote other industries to "change guns" or "icing on the cake".
The advent of a 10,000-ton dual-fuel container ship has directly led to a "chain reaction" in so many fields and industries, which is not expected by many people.
The operation of two 10,000-ton dual-fuel container ships, there is a place that is also happy, that is, Yueyang City Chenglingji port.
Chenglingji Port is one of the "eight good deep-water ports on the Yangtze River", and is also the only national first-class port in Hunan, but compared with some large domestic ports, there is still a lot of room for improvement.
On August 20, the Ministry of Transport released the national port throughput data from January to July, showing that the first container throughput is Shanghai, 26.64 million TEU, the "national Top 25" list, the last place is Quanzhou, its container throughput is 1.11 million TEU.
From January to July, the container throughput of Chenglingji port was 362,000 TEU, less than one third of Quanzhou, but it has improved a lot compared with last year - an increase of 46% year-on-year, which ranks among the top ports in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
Look at the level of foreign trade and economic activity of a city, look at its port and dock; To see the strength of a port, it depends on how many container ships it can accommodate and whether its cargo throughput is large or not.
The two 10,000-ton container ships of Hunan Ocean Shipping have given more support to Chenglingji Port. As a state-owned enterprise with 30 years of operation, Hunan Ocean Container Shipping currently owns more than 20 thousand ton container ships and more than 100,000 TEUs per year, accounting for 45% of the provincial market share. It is the largest and most influential inland waterway shipping and integrated logistics enterprise in Hunan Province.
After the completion of the replacement of container ships, Hunan Ocean Shipping will add 46,000 TEU per year, which is a big step in the history of Hunan water transport logistics.
But even Hunan Ocean shipping, such as the eldest brother shipping enterprises, is now troubled by a problem, that is, insufficient supply. The company has been investigating and debating before launching 10,000-ton container ships - should it spend 70, 80 million yuan to build two big ships? Because even if the capacity is sufficient, the situation of unsatisfactory cargo holds still occurs.
Therefore, Yueyang has been using subsidies in these years to "encourage" enterprises such as Hunan Ocean Shipping to maintain good routes, improve container carrying capacity, and enhance the logistics agglomeration effect of Chenglingji Port.
Quiet 'Water bus'
Hunan's independent construction of 10,000-ton new energy ships has brought more positive effects, but also highlights some problems to be solved.
The reporter's investigation found that in addition to the above phenomenon of insufficient container ship cargo supply, Hunan water transportation also has problems such as narrow shipping channels, small and weak transportation scale, continuous maintenance of lines, and limited government investment support.
The rise of expressways and high-speed railways has brought unprecedented impact to water transportation, and many city and state inland waterways have become narrower and narrower, navigable water depth is limited, and there are many obstacles along the way, and some are often seasonal cut off.
In addition to the direct river and sea routes in Hunan, there are several "provincial water shuttle bus" routes from Yueyang to Changsha, Changde, Hengyang and other places still insist on operation. Even if these lines are few, but the operation and maintenance, it is also stretched, in the case of insufficient supply, loading rate is not high, almost no profit, or even loss.
Because of this, those who ran the "water bus" together with Hunan Ocean Shipping have long since disappeared, and Hunan Ocean Shipping is the only state-owned enterprise still operating in this field. Once very busy "water bus" and to and from the port, once became quiet.
One of the reasons for the shortage of container ships is that some inland water transport does not meet the corresponding grade standards.
The above "Hunan water transport 26" round in the Yuanjiang River after the construction, need to walk more than 100 kilometers to Chenglingji port, there is a Huangmaozhou bridge on the way, usually to ensure navigation safety, the top of the ship to stay 2 meters high, the bottom of the ship to stay 1 meters deep, in order to smooth navigation, the crew pay attention to meteorological and hydrological information every day, and finally wait until a "a few days a year" precise time, To safely pass the Huangmaozhou Bridge.
Such "road conditions" as crossing the Huangmaozhou Bridge are everywhere in more than 80 Linhe counties and cities in Hunan. This is also why the recently issued "Hunan Province" "one river, one lake and four water" water transport development plan "should emphasize the integration of the number of ports in the province and the establishment of a" wide extension "port system.
In addition, Hunan is a large agricultural province, each county (city) has a considerable scale of agricultural products, but almost all have encountered the problem of "can not go out", because of the preservation of agricultural products is difficult, some agricultural enterprises choose higher transportation costs by land, which is the second reason for insufficient supply. For example, Hunan Ocean Shipping long-term transport of two kinds of export agricultural products, one is a Chinense, the other is a canned orange, because these two kinds of goods are relatively durable storage.
In addition, although Hunan is rich in water resources, it cannot retain water, the dry period is long, and the seasonal impact is also a factor leading to insufficient supply.
Of course, no profit or too little profit is the most important reason. Some private ship transport enterprises are limited to immediate interests, unable to long-term investment to maintain line operation, less profit, high cost, there will be "the more frequently run, the more loss" phenomenon. Once the water transport line has operational losses, it will in turn accelerate the market decline, and the problem of "insufficient supply" will be more prominent.
A inland province of Tongjiangda sea dream
To survive, enterprises must adapt to changes in the outside world and adjust their development direction in a timely manner.
In the case of insufficient supply, water-related enterprises have also done a lot of beneficial exploration and practice. The above-mentioned supercapacitor new energy passenger ferry manufacturers responded to the national call for ecological construction, focused on passenger ships and yachts, and amplified environmental protection functions, which is a way to lead the market.
The Hunan Ocean consolidation has already launched the "whole logistics" model, such as the company has more than 100 container transport vehicles, sufficient vehicle sources, complete models, in some terminals there are special office areas and parking lots. In addition, Hunan Ocean Shipping also set up repair points in Wuhan and other places to replenish cargo in a timely manner, which to a certain extent reduces the situation of "insufficient supply".
The operation of 10,000-ton dual-fuel container ships has brought many positive signals.
For the above problems, the reporter believes that on the one hand, in addition to integrating resources, dredging inland waterways such as repairing the "four waters" along the expansion of Changde Songhu waterway straight to the Yangtze River, but also need to pay close attention to the establishment of a more specific subsidy system, open subsidy standards, increase the application of new energy, maintain the inland waterway line operation of the transport enterprises subsidies, the government to increase investment in water transport infrastructure, At the same time, it is necessary to solve as soon as possible the problems such as the difficulty of refueling in the ten thousand ton dual-fuel container ships sailing on the river and sea.
The official plan also mentioned that in the next five years, Hunan is ready to invest 52 billion yuan to basically complete the inland waterway navigation pattern of "one river, one lake and four rivers", and the backbone waterway of Hunan will reach more than 2,200 kilometers.
"50 billion yuan investment in inland water transport once landing, will bring profound changes", Huang Daoping, executive director and general manager of the Party branch of Hunan Ocean Transport, believes that with the full implementation of the plan, the province's waterway and water transport infrastructure construction will be a step up, the business environment continues to be better, Hunan will release a stronger and more stable "attraction". This is a major positive for shipping companies.
The reporter found that behind the frequent production of large new energy vessels in Hunan, is the "anchor stone" old state-owned enterprises determined to implement the national strategic plan and develop the scale of the market, is the urgent development vision of private enterprises to comply with the requirements of The Times, growing, and innovating, is Yiyang Yuanjiang, Yueyang City Lingji Port based on its own, the standard coastal, Hope to expand and strengthen the strong demand of the industrial chain.
Behind them, there is the dream of open development of an industry and a province.
Hunan self-built new energy ships, indicating that there is still a lot of room for industrial growth in this field. Hunan's ship manufacturing industry, container ship transportation industry, as well as the extension of new energy applications and sewage treatment fields, Marine engineering education and training fields, under the favorable support of more smooth waterways and greater policy support, it is very likely to form a new trillion-level industrial chain.
In the future, Hunan's pace of Tongjiang and Haihai will be more firm and powerful.
