Enter the gas carrier market! High-end ship strategy to improve the quality-New Jiangzhou successfully signed a 7,000 m3 ethylene carrier construction contract
On October 31, 2024, Jiangxi New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Haihong Shipping Co., Ltd. signed a contract for the construction of a 7,000 m3 LEG (ethylene) carrier in Ruichang City. This signing marks the New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Heavy Industry's high-end vessel construction strategy to improve the quality, officially entered into the field of gas carrier construction.
He Xudong, Chairman of Qinshi Group Co., LTD., Han Xu, Partner of Shanghai Yiqiao Haikong Industrial Development Co., LTD., Wang Yi, General Manager of Shenzhen Haihong Shipping, and relevant leaders of Ruichang Municipal Committee and government attended the signing ceremony.
Shenzhen Haihong Shipping Co., LTD., founded on June 29, 2006, is an enterprise engaged in domestic coastal inter-provincial liquid cargo ship transportation. The business scope of the company is broad, covering the domestic coastal and middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River liquefied gas carrier transport, domestic vessel agency, inland waterway freight agency and international vessel transport of dangerous goods.
New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Industry customized a 7,000 m3 LEG ethylene carrier for Shenzhen Haihong Shipping. The vessel is the world's first domestically designed and manufactured semi-cooled semi-pressurized LEG carrier. Suitable for loading: ethylene, ethane, propylene, propane, commercial propane, butane, propane/butane mixture, butene, anhydrous ammonia, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), butadiene, diethyl ether, isoprene (monomer), isopropylamine, ethylamine, vinyl ether, etc. The vessel is designed by MARIC, steel single deck (freeboard deck), with forecastle and poop decks. The Engine Room, accommodation and wheelhouse are arranged at the aft. The cargo hold area is equipped with two independent single cylinder C-type tanks of 3500 m3 each and equipped with loading and unloading equipment, which can carry one type of goods or two types of goods at the same time. The vessel has an invisible bulbous bow (VS-BOW) and uses a post-paddle energy saving device "CAPRO". The vessel flew the Chinese flag, entered the China Classification Society, and was built according to the Specifications of the China Classification Society. The total length of the vessel is 115 meters, the width is 19 meters, the depth is 10.4 meters, the design draft is 6.1 meters, the structure draft is 6.6 meters, the load capacity is up to 6200 tons, the use of single diesel engine, single shaft and single propeller design, the speed is 14.5 knots. Suitable for international unrestricted navigation.
The signing of this order is the result of Shenzhen Haihong Shipping's inspection of a number of domestic yards with first-class gas carrier construction experience, and after thorough consideration, careful research and decision, the final choice of New Jiangzhou, which is not only the recognition of the technical level and strength of New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, but also an important performance of New Jiangzhou's high-end vessel construction and brand improvement. Meanwhile it’s a significant milestone for New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Industry to move towards the field of gas carrier construction.
In the year since the reorganization of the former Jiangzhou Joint shipbuilding, New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Industry has always implemented the corporate vision of building specialized and refined vessels, building special and excellent shipyards, focusing on the strategic positioning of "making special types of ship segments", and striving to expand the gas carrier construction market, and constantly enhance the brand effect of "New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding". In the future, New Jiangzhou Shipbuilding Industry will adhere to the development ideas of product transformation and upgrading and the five high-end goals of creating talents, equipment, technology, products and customers, implement the three-year doubling action plan, earnestly implement the "9610" action of the manufacturing industry in Jiujiang, and become the vanguard of Ruichang to build an advanced manufacturing base in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The largest production scale of high-end special ships and offshore engineering manufacturing base, to provide global customers with better quality Marine products and services.