4 Zhoushan shipyards "top the list"! Chinese shipyards monopolize the global ship repair market

International Shipping Network March 14

Xinya Ship

Xinya Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., located in Liuheng, Putuo, is the largest shipyard in China's private shipyards. After relocation and reconstruction, financial crisis, strategic cooperation in the industry, transformation and upgrading and other important development nodes, Xinya Shipbuilding has gone through since its establishment. In 19 years, it has grown to have three major production bases, "four docks and ten berths" production capacity, ranking seventh in the global ship repair company, and firmly ranking first in the industry among private ship repair companies in the country.

Since 2014, Xinya Ships has adjusted its production structure, gradually shifting from a production structure focusing on the maintenance of low value-added ships such as bulk carriers to the maintenance of high value-added ships such as petrochemical vessels, wind power installation vessels, and suction dredgers. At the same time, the company faced difficulties, improved hardware facilities and management levels, and set out to build "6S" standard workshops, with a total investment of over 100 million yuan. Up to now, the company has built 6 "6S" workshops.

In addition to repairs, Xinya also seeks business transformation. For this reason, Xinya seized the market opportunity of increasing demand for the installation of desulfurization equipment and successfully accepted the order for the conversion of desulfurization towers. Faced with the large amount of desulfurization tower modification works, tight docking repair period, long berthing time, high technical difficulty, and shortage of human resources, the company independently developed and invented the ship desulfurization tower installation device platform and hoisting device, which not only ensures the desulfurization tower ship The progress of the modification has improved production efficiency and safety. According to UK Clarkson survey data, at present, Zhoushan Xinya Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. has entered the top ten in the global desulfurization equipment conversion business. Due to the implementation of the international ship desulphurization standards in 2020, large shipping companies have ushered in the new year of ship repairs. The annual ship repair volume of Xinya Shipyard exceeded 400 ships in 2020.

Zhoushan COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry

In 2020, Zhoushan COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industry Ship Repair System will continue to seize market opportunities, increase scientific and technological innovation, enhance the technical level of repair and modification, continue to consolidate the advantages in the high-end modification field, continue to expand, optimize and strengthen the ship repair business, and complete repairs throughout the year 197 ships were refitted, the output value of ship repairs hit a record high, and the business income exceeded the shipbuilding business for the first time.

COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industries Zhoushan continues to deeply implement the concept of green environmental protection, actively promotes the ultra-high pressure water rust removal process, and realizes the integrated vacuum recovery of waste water; manufactures VOCs collection and recovery tooling for open-air spraying operations, accelerates the upgrading and transformation of painting rooms, and promotes the organized discharge of VOCs; Signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Zhejiang Fasjie, COSCO Jotun, etc., to strengthen environmental protection process innovation and independent research and development of environmental protection technology, and strive to build a "garden factory". In 2020, the company was recognized as "Zhoushan City Green Ship Repair Demonstration Enterprise" and "Zhejiang Clean Production Enterprise".

Zhoushan COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industries continues to increase the research and development and application of new technologies such as green ship repair and smart ship repair, combined with "Zhoushan 5G + smart ship repair and building", and actively cooperate with China Classification Society (CCS) and China Mobile (CMCC) to use 5G+AR remote Inspection technology, 5G+ drone close-up inspection technology, the first long-distance completion of the 230,000 ore ship "Renda" to complete the annual ship inspection. In the global crisis of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the value of remote inspection, service, and guidance has been highlighted, providing customers with a more transparent and traceable ship repair site control mechanism.

Longshan Shipyard

Longshan Shipyard is the first shipyard of Liuheng and one of the oldest shipyards in Zhejiang. Longshan Shipyard has trained a large number of ship repair and building technology and management personnel, so it is called the "Huangpu Military Academy" of the ship building industry.

Starting around 2015, the sluggish international shipping situation has forced shipbuilding and repairing companies to transform and upgrade. The Longshan Shipyard has also begun to adjust and improve its industrial structure, from the original product structure focusing on repairing bulk carriers to gradually focusing on repairing high value-added ships such as petrochemical ships and cement ro-ro ships. At the same time, the shipyard has increased investment in technological transformation, promoted green ship repairs, introduced high-end technical talents, and improved the professional and technical capabilities of front-line employees. From conventional repairs, they gradually transformed into high-tech modification businesses and high-value-added ship repairs.

Since last year, Longshan Shipyard has seized the opportunity of desulfurization tower modification and cooperated with Shandong Peisen Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. to build a desulfurization tower project with a total investment of nearly 100 million yuan and launched a 50 million yuan desulfurization tower manufacturing project. On March 18 last year, Zhoushan Longchuan Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd.'s first set of desulfurization tower delivery ceremony was held in Zhoushan Longshan Shipyard Co., Ltd.

Zhoushan Pacific Offshore

Pacific Ocean Engineering (Zhoushan) Co., Ltd. is one of the six leading enterprises in Zhoushan ship and offshore equipment. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Pacific China Group (Zhoushan) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Guo Brothers Group. The company owns one of the largest shipyards in Zhoushan, capable of undertaking 400,000-ton super-large ore ship repair operations. Currently, the company has transformed into a repair shop with ship repair as its main business, focusing on repairing markets in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Bulk carriers, container ships, and oil tankers cover very large ore carriers.

In recent years, international organizations have imposed stricter requirements on green ship repairs, and the international fleet is facing many ship repair requirements required by ship environmental protection regulations. Pacific Ocean Engineering (Zhoushan) Co., Ltd. seizes the business opportunities created by the international "sulfur limit order" and fully We have leveraged our professional technical expertise and expanded our business. Up to now, we have completed 54 sets of ship tail gas desulfurization equipment retrofit projects. In 2020, Pacific Ocean Engineering (Zhoushan) Co., Ltd. completed repairs of 180 ships, a year-on-year increase of 25%, and an output value of 900 million, a year-on-year increase of 38%.

Wanbang Yongyue

In addition to the above four, there is actually a ship repair company in Zhoushan, Zhoushan Wanbang Yongyue Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. Although Wanbang Yongyue did not make the top ten this time, Zhoushan Wanbang Yongyue is definitely the "class representative" of China's ship repair industry. , Is the pioneer of China's "green ship repair" concept.

At the beginning of 2021, Zhoushan Wanbang Yongyue Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. has made a good start in production, with nearly 30 ship repair orders in hand in the first quarter. Last year, the company repaired a total of 133 ships, with an average daily presence of more than 12 ships, with an output value of 1.15 billion and an after-tax profit of over 400 million. The profitability ranks among the top ship repair industries in the country. According to the analysis of the ship repair performance of the Ship Repair Branch of the China Shipbuilding Association in 2020, Zhoushan Wanbang Yongyue Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. is listed as the most profitable enterprise in the entire industry in the country.

IMC Yongyue is the forerunner of the "green ship repair" concept. In recent years, Wanbang Yongyue has successively developed vacuum ultra-high pressure water jet rust removal tools, "Dock Warrior", "Dock Elephant" robots, etc., to completely eliminate high-polluting sandblasting and rust removal. According to statistics, in the past four years, Wanbang Yongyue's operating net profit exceeded 700 million yuan, while reducing the use of waste copper ore containing harmful substances by more than 300,000 tons. With the application of new equipment, more and more foreign shipowners choose to put high value-added ships such as ro-ro ships, chemicals, and cruise ships to IMC Yongyue for repairs.

In recent years, relying on good geographical advantages and port shorelines, Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone has actively built an international green ship repair base. Last year, the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone "Standardized Management of Green Ship Repair Enterprises" was selected as the sixth batch of reform pilots in the trade zone. Experience and promote to the whole country. The ship repair industry in Zhoushan City is also experiencing growth against the trend in 2020. Many overseas shipowners have chosen to come to Zhoushan for ship repair and maintenance, and many foreign ships have lined up to enter the port for repairs.

According to statistics, in 2020, Zhoushan City will repair 1,900 foreign ships, with an output value of 5.3 billion yuan, an increase of 20%.

The high profit margin comes from green ship repair. For many years, Zhoushan shipbuilding company has focused on adopting advanced green and environmentally friendly ship repair technologies such as high-pressure water rust removal, which effectively reduced costs. At the same time, it has seized the opportunity of desulfurization tower modification business in the past two years, changed the previous conventional ship repair ideas, and chose more Repairs of high value-added ships such as petrochemical ships and cruise ships have a profit more than ten times higher.

At the same time, COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industries, Xinya Shipbuilding and other major shipbuilding companies have compiled and implemented green ship repairs such as the "6S Workshop Management Standards for the Mechanical and Electrical Work Area of ​​Ship Repairing and Building Enterprises", "Ultra-high Pressure Water Jet Treatment Process Standards for Ships", and "Technical Specifications for Steel Utilization of Ship Repairing and Building Enterprises" according to local conditions. Specific technical specifications have greatly enhanced the core competitiveness of enterprises.

In recent years, international organizations have imposed stricter requirements on green ship repairs, and international fleets are facing many ship repair requirements required by environmental protection regulations for ships, mainly focusing on the installation of desulfurization towers and ballast water treatment systems. Therefore, in the past year, Xinya Shipbuilding, Zhoushan COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry, and Longshan Shipyard undertook a large number of desulfurization tower installation and ballast water treatment system installation services, ushering in the peak of ship repair.