Since the beginning of this year, Fujian Shipbuilding Industry Group Corporation (Fujian Shipbuilding) has focused on its core corporate tasks, continued to make breakthroughs in key areas and critical links, and comprehensively accelerated the production progress, successfully achieving the “half-yearly target”. In the first half of the year, the total output value completed by Fujian Shipbuilding accumulatively increased by 73.77% compared with the same period last year.
In the first half of the year, Fujian Shipbuilding continued to deepen its strategic cooperation layout, and the overall new orders achieved significant growth, with a total of 56 ships signed. In terms of ship repair, it has successively repaired 21 high-value and high-output projects such as oil tankers, dry cargo ships, and tugboats. The maturity of the ship repair business has been further improved under normal operation.
In the first half of the year, Fujian Shipbuilding delivered a total of 16 ships. Each business division focused on key areas such as slipways and dock cycles to promote the rhythmic utilization of resources, steadily advance process and method innovation and tooling optimization, and comprehensively improve production efficiency.
Among them, the special coating process of 18500DWT oil and chemical tankers (DN18500 series) has been improved, and the average special coating cycle is controlled at 63 days. The standardized operation and management model formed provides a complete practical guide covering technical solutions and management optimization for subsequent batch special coating projects of oil and chemical tankers; 7500 CEU LNG dual-fuel PCTC (XSI463I) was delivered 4 months ahead of the contract period. During the dock stage, 100% of the cables were laid and the basic installation of electrical equipment was achieved. After launching, the conditions for full ship commissioning were met, and the 6-day and 5-night trial voyage was completed 4 days ahead of schedule.
Focusing on green, low-carbon, intelligent ships and high-end equipment, Fujian Shipbuilding is fully committed to promoting R&D and innovation, with 46 new R&D projects initiated this year. The project “Research and Development of Key Technologies and Demonstration Vessels for Green Intelligent Ships in Fujian” has made significant progress. The R&D project for the 1,000-ton distribution vessel on the Min River has successfully signed a research and development contract with Fujian Yilu Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. Meanwhile, the detailed design of the electric sightseeing boat has been completed and submitted for review.
Focusing closely on market demand, Fujian Shipbuilding has completed designs for five multi-purpose tugboats, four ocean workboats, two all-electric harbor tugboats, two all-electric container ships, one 20,000-ton all-electric coastal cargo ship, one 30-meter conventional propulsion harbor tugboat, and one 7,200-horsepower coastal harbor tugboat. Fujian Shipbuilding also signed a design contract for an 85-meter offshore engineering vessel.
The second phase of the integrated shipbuilding management platform is being implemented steadily, with modules such as labor settlement, schedule planning, design management, and customs clearance being promoted and covered across all major operational departments and processes.
In terms of smart manufacturing projects, laser cutting machines, intelligent pipe and profile cutting production lines, and other equipment at various bases of Fujian Shipbuilding have been successfully put into operation. Among them, the laser cutting and intelligent sorting production line, jointly developed by Mawei Shipbuilding, Xingjian Robot, and Fuzhou University, is currently in the design and R&D stage. It is the first set of integrated intelligent cutting and sorting production lines in China that integrates functions such as intelligent printing, laser cutting, and intelligent sorting by truss robots.