China will build its first ultra-luxury cruise ship
Under the testimony of Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister David Cameron, on October 21, the central enterprises China Ship (Stock) Industrial Group (China Shipping Group), the world's largest sovereign wealth fund China Investment Co., Ltd. (CIC) The world's largest cruise company Carnival Group signed a joint venture agreement with a value of 2.6 billion pounds (about 25.5 billion yuan). The three parties will set up an international cruise joint venture owned by the Chinese side in Hong Kong, China, where CIC will act as a financial investor.
According to the relevant parties involved in the agreement to the financial reporter revealed that the establishment of the international cruise joint venture will cost 25 billion yuan in the ship group under the Waigaoqiao shipbuilding (location commentary news) factory made super luxury cruise, and is responsible for these cruise Operation and management.
This will be the first time in China to build a true sense of the super luxury cruise. According to informed sources to the new financial reporter revealed that these luxury cruise full load displacement will be more than 130,000 tons, the captain of more than 300 meters, nearly three times the size of the Titanic, the number of passengers about 5,000 people, Classification societies, each cost about 50 billion yuan. According to the Waigaoqiao Shipyard insiders, the shipyard has been in the construction of domestic super luxury cruise ship equipment and infrastructure preparation, the first cruise ship is expected to start construction in the second half of next year, is expected to be completed and delivered in 2020.
"The establishment of the joint venture marks an important step forward for the Chinese cruise industry, and we are working with China Shipbuilding Group and CIC to further cultivate the majority of Chinese tourists," said Alan Barker, chief operating officer of Carnival Group. Cruise tourism awareness, interest and demand cruise tourism for China is a relatively new travel experience, we believe that the cooperation with the Chinese partners for the development of China's domestic cruise economy, to promote China to become the world's leading cruise market As the world's largest cruise company, we are honored to use decades of scale and experience to help China build a world-class local cruise brand and bring cruises to thousands of Chinese tourists The joy of the holiday.
Wu Qiang, general manager of China Shipbuilding Group, said that relying on the Chinese cruise market, the growing demand for cruise ships, and vigorously develop domestic cruise projects, not only for China's cruise industry sustained and healthy development to provide a solid equipment support, but also China's breakthrough cruise design, construction technology, Rapid upgrading of shipbuilding industry technology and management level, and promote China's shipbuilding industry from big to strong, accelerate the realization of industrial power and manufacturing power an effective way.
2013, the Chinese cruise tourism market presents a rapid development trend. According to the "China Cruise Industry Development Report (2015)" released by the Shanghai International Cruise Center for Economic Research, the number of China's entry and exit cruise ships in 2010 was 74 million, an increase of 40%, and it is expected to exceed 1 million by 2015, accounting for Asian cruise market More than 40% of the total, jumped to the world's eighth.
6 side to participate in, in fact, before this, China Shipbuilding Group has been for domestic cruise project for more than two years of preparation. According to the group within the group revealed that in October 2013, China Shipbuilding Group domestic cruise project was officially launched, after many contact negotiations, China Shipping Group chose the world's largest cruise operator - Carnival Group domestic cruise project cooperation. After several rounds of high-level meetings and comprehensive consultations, the two sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cruise Strategic Cooperation in October 2014, initiated a joint venture to set up a cruise ship management company in China, and in the shipbuilding group shipyard to invest in the construction of cruise negotiations. A month later, China Shipbuilding Group and the world's largest cruise construction company - Italy Fincentini Group signed a strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding to start a joint venture in China to set up cruise shipbuilding company package negotiations. At the same time, China Shipbuilding Group is also looking for domestic cruise projects for the technical and financial needs of the partners. In August 2015, China Shipbuilding Group and China National Sovereign Wealth Fund - CIC signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation framework agreement and the cruise investment platform company joint venture agreement, CICC became the China Shipbuilding Group to develop domestic cruise project comprehensive strategic partner , To the China Shipping Group in the investment and financing and international support and so on. On October 13, 2015, China Shipbuilding Group, CICC, Carnival Group, Italy Fincentini Group, Lloyd's Register and Shanghai Baoshan District Government jointly issued the Joint Declaration on Six-Party Cooperation in Cruise Industry in Shanghai. The six-party declaration pointed out that the next 20 years, China's annual cruise ship number will exceed 10 million people, need about 100 cruise, the Chinese cruise tourism market urgently need local cruise. In the future, the six parties will accelerate the establishment of a comprehensive strategic partnership, work together to build the global cruise industry top cooperation team, and actively seek the support of the Chinese government; actively explore a variety of ways of mutual benefit and friendly cooperation and common development of China's domestic cruise manufacturing industry, Cultivate the local cruise industry chain; sincere cooperation and work together for the early completion of the Shanghai Waigaoqiao shipbuilding with a world-class level of China's first domestic manufacturing cruise. Among them, China Shipbuilding Group will be responsible for the construction of cruise ships, Carnival Group is responsible for the operation and management of cruise ships, the Italian Fincandini Group is responsible for cruise design demonstration, the British Lloyd's Register is responsible for cruise ship quality management.
It is reported that on September 23 this year, the British Lloyd's Register to the Waigaoqiao shipyard related business staff for a day and a half of the luxury cruise construction training, training content around the cruise ship general introduction, cruise market, construction plant production line arrangement, Cruise design, construction of the relevant rules and regulations, risk and prevention and cruise supply chain a total of seven areas.
Crown the most difficult to pick the pearl
Luxury cruise ship is China's only yet yet overcome the high-tech ship products. As a typical representative of high-end equipment manufacturing industry, it combines the advanced equipment manufacturing industry and modern service industry, set sightseeing, tourism, leisure and entertainment functions in one, is highly integrated, systematic, informative "sea mobile resort" and "Sailable sea star hotel". But also with the aircraft carrier, large liquefied natural gas ship (ship type shipyard sale) (LNG) and known as the "global shipbuilding industry crown three pearl." Compared with the traditional three major ship type, the cruise ship is a new type of ship, its design concept, construction technology, operation and management and other aspects of the three mainstream ship there is a world of difference, the design and construction of great difficulty, and directly With a country's comprehensive level of technology and comprehensive industrial capacity.
At present, the world cruise design and construction and supporting industry chain is mainly concentrated in Europe, Italy Fenkartini Group, Germany Meyer Shipyard and the French Atlantic Shipyard is the world's three largest cruise construction companies, together to undertake the global about 90% of the orders ; Asian ships, including Japan and South Korea, have yet to design and build cruise ships. "Cruise ship for the high security requirements, the general ship if the accident involved only a dozen professional crew, and cruise ship in the event of an accident, will involve thousands of no escape experience of ordinary passengers and hundreds of crew members, the consequences unimaginable So that any part of the construction, operation and operation can not be the slightest sloppy. "Cruise design experts, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, the Institute of the Institute of the Institute of the Eighth Institute of Wu Zhenglian said. Wu Zhenglian believes that the excellent cruise ship must have four prominent features: security, comfort, leisure and entertainment, to the impact of tourists or shocking. At the same time, the cruise design and construction is difficult because it is different from any other ships, this process is entirely from the "people" point of view, both in the facilities, or in comfort and security, Have to pay attention to the extreme. China Shipbuilding Group to participate in domestic cruise project stakeholders said that the successful construction, delivery and delivery of the first domestic cruise, not only help to ease the international and domestic cruise market supply and demand contradictions, driving the development of cruise related industry chain, more conducive to China's shipbuilding industry Rapid breakthrough in cruise design and construction technology to enhance the ship's industrial technology and management level, to promote the successful transformation and upgrading of the shipbuilding industry to achieve "Made in China 2025" in the proposed goals. But the person also pointed out that, in view of the difficulty of the construction of luxury cruise ships, China to achieve the dream of local cruise ship, only through international cooperation, relying on the most powerful backbone of the shipyard, co-ordinate the resources, play synergies, Combination, strong combination of the road. In fact, the cooperation between China Shipbuilding Group and Carnival is based on the above guidelines.
In fact, in order to guide and support the healthy and sustainable development of China's cruise industry, this year the government has introduced a series of policies to China's shipbuilding industry to enter the cruise design and construction areas pointed out the direction and made a request. In the State Council issued the "Made in China 2025", the clear requirements of breaking the luxury cruise design and construction technology. September 28, by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission and other six ministries jointly issued "on the promotion of tourism equipment manufacturing industry development views" also proposed to speed up the cruise design and construction, to promote the domestic strength of the shipbuilding Enterprises and foreign cruise design, construction enterprises to carry out technical and business cooperation, as soon as possible to achieve the first ship to build their own design breakthrough.