In the face of the impact of the COVID-19 and profound changes in the international shipping market, Jingjiang City, Jiangsu Province, as the largest private shipbuilding base in China and a state-level ship export base, actively guided shipbuilding enterprises to go against the trend and promote production, speed up development, and promote the shipbuilding industry to ride the wind and waves and achieve stability.
Entering Jiangsu New Era Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., we can see the scene of vigorous production everywhere. On the basis of doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, the enterprise has made great efforts to promote production and construction and ensure order delivery, and successfully completed the key production nodes of 210000 ton bulk carriers, 156500 ton oil tankers and other ships in recent days. “This year, our order receiving volume especially in the case of dual fuel ships has achieved gratifying results. We have completed the task of receiving orders in advance for the whole year, with 87 orders in hand, about 11.2 million tons of deadweight, and the production schedule is up to 2026.” Chen Yajun, director of the Enterprise Marketing Department, said that the orders for dual fuel ships are mainly concentrated in 210000 ton bulk carriers, 80000 TEU and 11400 TEU container ships.

Ship export is an important pillar of Jingjiang’s foreign trade. In recent years, the rapid growth of the global container shipping market and the recovery of the dry bulk transport market have brought about high demand for ships. Jingjiang Shipbuilding Enterprises aim at the market demand, constantly optimize the product structure, transform to “high-end, intelligent, green”, and hold orders, shipbuilding completion occupies an important position in the province and the country. “Up to now, the company has 144 handheld orders, 11 million deadweight tons, which will be delivered in succession from 2022 to 2024, mainly large and medium-sized container ships and bulk carriers.” He Minghui, assistant general manager of Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., introduced that the number of handheld orders of enterprises has reached a peak in nearly 20 years, of which more than 90% are foreign trade orders, which are mainly exported to Japan, Singapore and some countries in Europe. According to the data from China Shipbuilding Association, in the first quarter of this year, Jingjiang shipbuilding enterprises accounted for 22% of the total number of orders in hand.
With the continuous promotion of the global shipping greenhouse gas emission reduction strategy, the demand of the new shipbuilding market quickly turned to green ships. At the same time, the goal of “carbon peaking and carbon neutralization” also puts forward new requirements for the green development of the shipbuilding industry. Jingjiang Shipbuilding Enterprises actively implement the concept of green development, carry out research and application of high-tech, high value-added green ship products and green manufacturing technology, and promote low-carbon green cycle development.
New Yangzi Shipbuilding takes green, environment-friendly and low-carbon clean energy power ships and transport ships as the product upgrading direction, and has jointly developed the world’s largest LNG tank container transport dual fuel deck cargo ship with Hong Kong Tiger Gas. “The design and construction of this series of ships aims to ‘break the inertia design and innovate based on demand’. It can deliver smaller single container packages and flexibly dock at smaller terminals, so as to maximize flexibility in the LNG supply chain and create an important milestone in the LNG transportation business model.” He Minghui introduced that the third ship of this series has completed its trial voyage recently

New Era Shipbuilding independently developed and designed a new generation of 110,000t dual fuel tanker with independent intellectual property rights, which is also the first Afra dual fuel tanker in China. The ship is driven by LNG fuel and traditional fuel oil. Under LNG fuel mode, CO2 emission can be reduced by about 20%; At the same speed, the fuel consumption can be reduced by 8% compared with the same type of products.
In view of the impact of the epidemic situation on the production and operation of shipbuilding enterprises, relevant departments of Jingjiang and Jingjiang Customs organized a service team to visit the enterprises in a timely manner, and made precise measures to help enterprises solve difficulties and rescue, so as to ensure the smooth and smooth production supply chain and consumption industry chain.

Under the premise of strict implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures, Jingjiang City actively helped enterprises such as New Era Shipbuilding and New Yangzi Shipbuilding to apply for foreigners to come to Jingjiang, which solved the urgent needs of enterprises. Jingjiang Customs provides policy support in the filing, extension, verification and cancellation of the processing trade manual. The import customs clearance link applies “declaration in advance” and “two-step declaration”, realizing the whole process of computerization and improving the customs clearance efficiency. “With the guidance and help of the customs, a batch of our ship spare parts were successfully delivered to the enterprise through the customs declaration of Jingjiang Bonded Logistics Center (Type B), ensuring the subsequent production,” Mao Jian, the deputy director of the New Era Shipbuilding Materials Department, told us. By promoting the use of “Internet plus” and the new mode of destination inspection, Jingjiang Customs has achieved the goal of “immediate arrival, inspection and release” of shipbuilding raw materials, which has accelerated the export of new ships for enterprises. Yang Qiang, deputy director of Jingjiang Customs under Nanjing Customs, said that since this year, shipbuilding enterprises in Jingjiang have successfully delivered 18 export ships, an increase of 12.5% compared with the same period last year.