标题: Shipbuiling Industries of China, Japan and S Korea [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 2-23-2011 13:01 标题: Shipbuiling Industries of China, Japan and S Korea 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Note:
(a) The VOA report cites
S Korea reclaims world's top shipbuilder spot in new orders. Xinhua, Feb 5, 2011.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-02/05/content_9436761.htm
(i) The China Daily report mentions "compensated gross tonnage." To understand that concept, one has to learn gross tonnage first.
* Besides the text, go to "External link":
Council Working Party on Shipbuilding; Compensated Gross Tonnage (CGT) System. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007.
http://www.coltoncompany.com/newsandcomment/news/CGT%20Factors.pdf
Go to web page 7 and read paragraphs 35 (formula: cgt=A*(gt to the b)) and 36 ("The A and B factors are shown in the table below").
(b) An additional related report:
Zhou Siyu, Full steam ahead for shipbuilders' plans for market position. China Daily, Feb 17, 2011.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-02/17/content_12033559.htm
Quote:
"'To keep such a market share is by no means easy. China still lags behind South Korea and Japan in terms of technologies and production capability of high value-added vessels,' Zhang [Guangqin, head of the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry] said
"China displaced South Korea as the top global shipbuilder in 2010.
(B) Financial Times (FT) has three reports recently about shipbuilding. The latest news first. (2) is about Japan's shipbuilding industry.
(1) Neil Dennis and Song Jung-a, Shipbuilders lift Seoul out of doldrums. Ft, Feb 19, 2011.
(2) Mure Dickie, Proud Shipbuilders Fight to Survive as Foreign Rivals Thrive; Groups trim costs and tap domestic technological prowess to retain a competitive edge. FT, Feb 8, 2011 (title in the print).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12ebbbc6-32de-11e0-9a61-00144feabdc0.html
(shipbuilding industry was "created when foreign experts helped MHI’s [Mitsubishi Heavy Industry's] forebears lay the keels of western-style steam ships in the 19th century")
Note:
(a) tug (n): "TUGNOAT" www.m-w.com
(b) Koyagi, Nagasaki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyagi,_Nagasaki
(香焼町 Kōyagi-chō; part of Nagasaki City)
(c) Hisashi HARA 原 壽 (三菱重工 船舶・海洋事業本部長)
(d)
* China State Shipbuilding Corp. 中国船舶工业集团公司
www.cssc.net.cn
* China Shipbuilding Industry Corp. 中国船舶重工集团公司
www.csic.com.cn
(e)
* For NYK Line, see Nippon Yusen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Yusen
(Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha 日本郵船株式会社 (Japan Mail Shipping Line) or NYK Line, is one of the largest shipping companies in the world;a core Mitsubishi company; Headquarters Tokyo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYK_Line
* K Line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Line
(Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. 川崎汽船株式会社; also referred to as "K" Line; established 1919; Headquarters Ichikawa, Chiba 千葉県 市川市)
* For Mol (in British English) or MOL (American English), see Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsui_O.S.K._Lines
(MOL (Mitsui O.S.K. Lines 株式会社商船三井) was founded in 1964 following the merger of Osaka Shosen Kaisha (OSK) 大阪商船株式会社 and Mitsui Steamship Co., Ltd., formerly Mitsui Line)
(f) Universal Shipbuilding Corporation ユニバーサル造船株式会社
www.u-zosen.co.jp
(g) Tsu, Mie 三重県 津(市)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsu,_Mie
(h) A pie chart accompanying the report, for 3Q01, showed Taiwna had 2% of world shipbuilding production.
(i) A compnion report:
Mure Dickie, Japanese Yards Clam Innovative Edge Over Asian Rivals. FT, Feb 8, 2011.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/51488fd0-32e7-11e0-9a61-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1EoUm1CyV
("Technological progress plays a much less dramatic role in shipbuilding than in electronics or carmaking, but Japanese yards still see innovation as offering a vital edge against Chinese and South Korean competition")
(3) Song Jung-a, Daewoo defies gloom in shipbuilding. FT, Feb 2, 2011.
(C) Maersk Triple-E: The 18,000 TEU Benchmark. ShipBuilding Industry, Feb 22, 2011.
http://www.shipbuilding-industry.eu/shipbuilding_v2/?p=4001#more-4001
("The new, giant container vessels will be known as Triple-E, for their founding principles are economy of scale, energy efficiency and environmentally improved.")
Note:
(a) Please click "Triple-E" in the quotation to read press release from Maersk.
(b) A. P. Moller-Maersk Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._Moller-Maersk_Group
(The A.P. Moller - Maersk Group started as the shipping company Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg, founded by captain Peter Mærsk-Møller and his son Arnold Peter Møller in Svendborg, 1904./Headquarters Copenhagen, Denmark)
(c) Twenty-foot equivalent unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit
(TEU)
(d) ShipBuilding Industry magazine is published by Yellow & Finch Publishers of the Hetherlands.
(e) China is not mentioned in this report.