Chapter 388 Implementation
Monday early morning.
Sucheng went straight to the main factory area of COSCO Shipping at the port at the appointed time.
To be a liquefied natural gas ship, no matter what kind of political strategy it takes, it must be implemented in production in the end. The current production capacity of Dahua Shipping Industry is not bad, but it is mainly used as an offshore drilling platform. At present, they have been able to get a small number of foreign orders. In addition, the Sertan oil field is still under further development, and the production task is very tight and there is almost no margin.
Because of this, Dahua Industry has handed over quasi-high-end businesses such as fpso offshore floating production and storage tankers to COSCO Shipping. In the past few years, it has also cultivated an Asian-level marine equipment manufacturing company. It can be said that if there is any company in China that can transfer a large number of senior shipbuilding workers, it is COSCO Shipping.
It took almost 2 hours from the headquarters of Dahua Industry to the COSCO shipping factory. Sucheng left at 8 o'clock, and when we arrived at the place, it was almost 10 o'clock.
When He Han, He Yuwei, Hu Jian and others heard that he was about to arrive, they all gathered to wait at the gate.
Whether it is the competition with Changning infrastructure or the entanglement of interests in reality, there are many places where COSCO Shipping relies on Dahua Industry, and the attitude is naturally different.
After getting off the bus, the first thing Su Cheng saw was Hu Jian's Fucheng head.
The so-called Fucheng head is the representative hairstyle of Guo Fucheng. The front face is four or six points, and the back of the head is shaved in a round mushroom shape. If you look at it from the eyes of the post-00s generation, it can only be described as cute. In the early 1990s, it was quite fashionable.
In China, the pursuit of fashion has always been teenagers. Su Cheng turns around with a group of middle-aged and elderly people every day. The thinking is naturally aging. Seeing the 40-year-old Hu Jian combing such a hairstyle, he couldn't help slowing down.
Hu Jian was a smart and ** overseas man. Seeing that Su Cheng saluted his rich city head, he suddenly blushed and coughed hard twice.
He Han shook hands gently with Su Cheng and said with a familiar smile, "Welcome Su Dong to inspect the work. It's really a pair of good things."
"I'm not a superior leader. Minister He, don't praise me. Good things come in pairs. What are the two good things?" Because He Han is a deputy ministerial-level cadre. Su Cheng used the minister to make fun of him, which was a joke between him and He Han.
"The first good thing is naturally the arrival of Su Dong, Peng Shenghui." He Han praised again, pointed to Hu Jian, and smiled, "The second good thing is our manager Hu, the old tree draws twigs, married a new wife on the weekend, a graduate student who just graduated from school. Somehow I took a fancy to him. Take a look. The hairstyle has been changed.
Both sides are quite familiar with each other. The words not only explain Hu Jian's rich city head, but also quickly eliminate the sense of strangeness.
Su Cheng laughed and shook hands with Hu Jian and He Yuwei in order. At the same time, he "complained" and said, "Manager Hu is newly married. Why don't you inform me? Is it Jinwu Zangjiao?"
"I dare not bother Su Dong, let's talk about it. We didn't go to the hotel in particular. The ceremony was held in the factory, and we had a good time with the workers. Hu Jian smiled happily. He looked very happy. The loss of his middle-aged wife once dealt a big blow to him, but now he has recovered.
Sucheng snack was shocked: "Is the wedding held in the factory of COSCO Shipping? Manager Hu is really avant-garde.
"The restaurant is too expensive, and there is a lot of work in the factory. We agreed not to toss around, just take a form in the workshop." Hu Jian smiled. He smiled. He said, "The wife who saves money is a treasure."
"Manager Hu and the workers got together. It's amazing." Su Cheng gave a thumbs up. Since the first meeting, Su Cheng has had a good impression of Hu Jian, and at this time, he has deepened his good impression.
COSCO Shipping is a large-scale state-owned enterprise at the vice-ministerial level. Hu Jian's manager actually has the treatment at the deputy department level, and the real power in the factory is even better. In terms of the domestic situation, state-owned enterprise managers like Hu Jian are already standard officials. Marriage not only costs money, but may also make a fortune. If it hadn't been for strong self-discipline, he wouldn't have made such a choice.
With this incident, several people started to talk and laugh.
After a while, Su Cheng said casually, "Dahua Industry has asked Halliburton to buy shares in Dahua Shipping Industry, and President Brown is inclined to agree."
"Dahua wants to withdraw from the joint venture?" The privatization of Dahua is very private, and He Han really doesn't know it. He said in disbelief, "Halle Burton is one of the world's top 500 multinational enterprises. How can it be easy to disconnect from them?"
The joint venture between Dahua Industrial and Halliburton is Dahua Shipping, and COSCO Shipping and Halliburton also have joint venture factories. They can acquire Changning Infrastructure and Shangyuan Transportation, which has a considerable relationship with Halliburton's joint venture. Over the past few years, COSCO Shipping has made a lot of money by getting involved in the manufacture of marine equipment through fpso, and has been praised by Shangfeng for several consecutive years. He Han was also a little proud of this point. Therefore, it was really unclear to hear that Sioux City was going to end the joint venture with Halliburton.
Su Cheng smiled easily and said, "The partnership between Dahua Industry and Halliburton will not change, and it may be closer. However, the joint venture Dahua Shipping Industry has indeed encountered some bottlenecks in technology development. We have begun to make technical reserves for fourth- and fifth-generation offshore drilling platforms, but neither Dahua Industry nor Halliburton are used to handing technology patents to a joint venture factory. Therefore, it is a more appropriate time to separate now.
He did not mention the liquefied natural gas ship, but explained it from the perspective of Halliburton.
As a world-class technology service provider, Halliburton is bound to share important patents with Dahua Shipping. This also means that their technical cooperation will be limited to the lower level. For example, the second-generation and second-and-half-generation offshore drilling platforms are the goals selected by Halliburton. When Dahua Shipping has reached the third-generation drilling platform, their attitude is already very reluctant, and the fourth generation will almost certainly not continue with Dahua Shipping.
The technological progress of Dahua Shipping Industry has exceeded Halliburton's expectations, and orders from the Sertan oil field have also tended to decline. At this time, Halliburton did have the intention to sell Dahua Shipping.
He Yuwei asked, "Do you want to separate the fourth and fifth generations of offshore drilling platforms?"
"The drilling platform is one of the goals. Our goals are different from Halliburton. The offshore drilling platform made by Halliburd mainly serves traditional hot areas such as the Middle East, so Dahua Industry will not join in the fun.
He Han smiled and said, "The competition between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mexico is too fierce. The Halliburton family is very big, and it is impossible not to intervene."
He Han said to himself, as if he understood Su Cheng's idea, and said, "It seems that the income of Dahua Industry in the Soviet Union is very rich. With the current total assets of Dahua Shipping Industry, I'm afraid it will be hundreds of millions."
The main assets of Dahua Shipping Industry, in addition to the investment of both sides three years ago, also have acquired two foreign shipping companies from Germany and the Netherlands. If we talk about the total amount, there can indeed be hundreds of millions.
Su Cheng explained simply: "We are going to divest some of our assets and limit the acquisition funds to tens of millions."
In the current international environment, ordinary ship orders are basically unprofitable, but only to maintain the livelihood of enterprises. It will be 20 years before the shipbuilding industry shows signs of recovery.
It was 1992, and the glacial period of the international shipping industry was in the ascendant. Su City divested most of the ordinary business in time, which could not only reduce acquisition costs, but also reduce future expenses, killing two birds with one stone.
For Halliburton, this acquisition plan is also in their interests, so the two sides talked very happily.
He Yuwei recognized the meaning of Su Cheng, and then asked, "Dong Su, you said that the drilling platform is one of the goals of Dahua Shipping Industry, so what else are you going to do?"
Su Cheng stopped for a moment, motioned the followers around him to walk away, and then looked at several people and said, "The future goal of Dahua Industry is the lng ship."
"What!" Hu Jian didn't take a breath, so he shouted out. The head of Fucheng is like a mushroom on a rainy day.
"LNG ship, that's right." Su Cheng said it again.
He Yuwei and He Han haven't done well yet. Hu Jian couldn't help shouting, "Su Dong, Dahua really wants to be a lng boat? When?"
"The tonnage of the first ship will be smaller, and we expect to see the finished product within 2 years." The cost of starting the lng ship in 1992 will be much lower than later. After 2010, when China makes lng ships again, in order to generate economies of scale, the full-load tonnage of the lng hull has increased to more than 70,000 tons. It is required to be able to ship 13 in one go. 70,000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas.
Such a ship will have a length of more than 270 meters and a width of more than 40 meters, which is much larger than most aircraft carriers in the world, and its difficulty and cost will be much larger than that of small-scale lng ships.
Therefore, in the United States in 1954, if you change an oil tanker, you can make a lng ship. In 2000, China still couldn't make lng ships, because the demand for lng ships was also increasing, and the increase was quite fast.
Dahua Industry chose to make lng ships at this time, which can make hundreds of millions of dollars and generate the value of billions of dollars in future generations. Once something is made, it is equivalent to planting a cash cow.
Hu Jian didn't care about the size of the ship's tonnage, but asked tremblingly, "Su Dong, can COSCO Ship Service participate in the construction of the lng ship?"
He couldn't have said this. He Han is still standing on the side.
Hu Jian is too excited. As the most expensive ship in the world and the most difficult civil ship to build, the lng ship has always been handed over to the world's strongest shipbuilding elites to build. Hu Jian has coveted when he heard the name, and he can't care much about it.
"Su Dong, COSCO Shipping is very willing to participate in the construction of the lng ship." He Han also realized that if Su Cheng had no intention, why did he come here specially? Now it seems that this is the main purpose of his trip.
Su Cheng became serious at this time and said quietly, "Dahua Shipping will directly participate in the construction process this time. I'm here to ask COSCO Shipping to lend us some workers."
Labor output is naturally beneficial. However, the workers in the shipyard have been trained for a long time, and there are many orders from COSCO Shipping. Can they be supplemented? It is much better to talk about friendship than to talk about interests.
He Han and others couldn't help but be silent when they heard what he said... RQ