Zhoushan, a city with profound shipbuilding heritage, is relying on technological upgrading and digital intelligence empowerment to accelerate the transformation of the shipbuilding industry.
At 1 a.m. on June 12, the shipyard of Zhoushan Dashenzhou Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. was busy, with welding flowers splashing everywhere.
Three 10,000-cubic-meter semi-cooled liquefied petroleum gas/liquid ammonia carriers are under intense construction. These new-generation green gas carriers built for Petrobras are the key to the company’s opening of the South American market.
Pan Haiwei, general manager of the company, said that since the second quarter, they have not dared to relax for a day and have made every effort to grasp the construction progress.
Relying on its reputation in the field of gas ships and stainless steel chemical tankers, the company has orders for 21 ships, with delivery scheduled to 2029, and has been operating at full production this year.
The Zhoushan shipbuilding industry is accelerating amidst “intelligent” changes and “qualitative” changes.
In the first quarter, the city’s shipping industry output value was 17.99 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 35.1%.
Shipbuilding completions, new orders, and orders on hand all increased by more than 50% year-on-year. The number of completed ship repairs increased to more than 45% nationwide and more than 20% globally. Five companies ranked among the top ten ship repair companies in the world.
Behind the popularity of data are high-end products that are more “capable of fighting”.
This year, Zhoushan has vigorously promoted the high-quality development of the shipbuilding and offshore equipment industry, focusing on the development of new energy and new material ships, and achieved multiple breakthroughs.
my country’s first independently designed and built integrated large-scale fracturing engineering ship “Hai Yang Shiyou 696” was delivered; three products including the polar-deep sea complex sea conditions high-precision dynamic positioning ultra-large intelligent shuttle tanker were rated as the first (set) in the province; high value-added ship types such as 11,500-ton LNG dual-fuel ships were delivered in batches.
From traditional ship types to green dual-fuel ships, from conventional ship repairs to high-end offshore equipment, Zhoushan’s shipbuilding industry is accelerating its climb along the value chain.
In the second quarter, four projects, including Peninsula Shipbuilding and Dongpeng Shipyard, have completed mergers and reorganizations. The reorganized production capacity will be gradually released to further strengthen high-end shipbuilding capabilities.
Not only the ship type has changed, but also the way of shipbuilding.
Walking into the Zhoushan COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Shipyard, the welding process parameters and three-dimensional assembly instructions are pushed in real time on the screen. The automatic inspection equipment slides along the track through the ship hatch and transmits the structural data to the background.
Nowadays, young workers can complete the assembly independently without the help of a master by holding a tablet terminal.
Behind this is the large ship model knowledge map data set built by the company, which collects 1,201 knowledge points such as processes and standards. The project was also selected into the province’s first batch of high-quality data sets in the industrial field.
With this data set “exclusive consultant”, the company’s shipbuilding efficiency has increased by 19%, and the efficiency of some ship repair links has increased by 11%.
Liu Huifei, director of the Promotion Office of the company’s Technology Innovation and Digital Intelligence Promotion Department, said that orders in the second quarter were very full, and intelligence is releasing the value of real money.
In addition to enterprise exploration, policy support is followed up simultaneously.
Since the beginning of this year, Zhoushan has strengthened policy guidance and financial support, and has cultivated 11 key “artificial intelligence + manufacturing” scenarios in areas such as shipbuilding and shipbuilding. It has coordinated and arranged policy funds of more than 44 million yuan for the development of the digital industry and the update and quality improvement of ship and offshore engineering equipment. Two national standards related to shipbuilding industry automation were developed under the leadership of Zhoushan enterprises.
Zhoushan Shipbuilding Industry is using technological upgrading as the engine and digital intelligence empowerment as the driving force, showing strong competitiveness in the global shipbuilding market, and the future is promising.
