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STATUS OF CHINESE RO-RO

    Recently the Ministry of Commerce statistics show that the number of cars exports of our country (including complete sets of spare parts) has rapidly grew in the first half of the year, and reached to a record 9,600 cars, and increase into more than 183% over the same period last year. Learned that in the next half of the year, the number of car exports at least double that for the first half of the year.

    However, contrasting with the growth of car exports, the domestic Ro-Ro ship is shortage seriously.

    Strong Demand

    In recent years, the demand of automobile Ro-Ro market has been strong.

    Looking at the situation of the ship market in last two years, we can easily find that the boat prices are higher in varying degrees, but the price of Ro-Ro has grew in fastest, most obvious and most compelling, which fully reflect the advantage of high value-added of Ro-Ro. Compared with the beginning of last year, the price fo Ro-Ro with 4,300 car parking spaces, has rose sharply to more than 30%, and created the highest record in current ship market.

    Shenyang Geely exported more than 4,800 cars to Syria and Egypt in last year. The staff of Geely said that, in the first half of this year, our company had exported nearly 3000 cars, and just enter the next half of year they have received 3000overseas purchase orders; BYD company in early September signed agreement with a company of Malaysia to export 3000 cars to Malaysia in one year; Anhui Chery in the first half of the year exported nearly 4000 cars, when to 2007, t Chery will export250,000 cars to the United States.

    Detroit auto experts predict that 20 years later, the cars produced by China will cover the the market in United States.

    In recent years, as China's auto exports grow up sharply, since 2007 the world will meet the peak of Ro-Ro demand, meanwhile meet the peak of Ro-Ro will construction. For this reason, many ship owners have good prospects on Ro-Ro, optimistic making orders, looking for new ship berth to build ships.

    Chery officer said that another important task of China's auto exports is to solve the capacity problem. Now there are only one Ro-Ro for export in China's ocean shipping business, and the car export just basic reliance on Japanese and Korean automobile shipping companies, so the price of transport generally is higher than Japanese and Korean car companies more than 20% -30%. China's auto export business is controlled by Japan and South Korea shipping company.

    If Chery, Geely, Great Wall and other Chinese auto manufacturers can join together with COSCO Group to invest to construct ocean-going Ro-Ro, the main bottleneck can be resolved.

    Difficult of manufacture

    Most of the cars in the world getting down from the manufacturing, is transferred to all over word by the Ro-Ro ship.

     Since 1986,Jiangnan Shipyard had built two Ro-Ro ships, there is nearly blank in the construction of Ro-Ro in China in last ten years.

    learning as, the height of Ro-Ro ship is the double of normal ship. Although it is value-added high, construction of Ro-Ro is difficult: this type of ship has different special and conventional construction from the normal ship and use large number of high-strength sheet metal which tends to twist, and it is difficult to be corrected when twist; In the the construction process processes frequently cross back and forth, increasing the difficulty of the construction; hull structure is complicated, and very irregular, even need to install plenty of on-site at the scene; The ship has a total of more than 470 sections, and must be form into 160 large sections on the platform, then be installed on ship sets.

    In the technology field of Ro-Ro construction all over world, Japan, Germany and France have been the headship of technology. Although our shipbuilding industry has entered the world top three, because our car manufacturers has been relatively lagging behind in the international, the development of Ro-Ro transport was also lack, and constrained the manufacture of specializing ships for car’s transportation. The construction of Ro-Ro ship, with high investment, is no afforded by ship owner. Now, the pince of a Ro-Ro ship,which is made in Korea in 80s, is about 80 million U.S. dollars, and if build a new Ro-Ro in china, it is atl least 100 million U.S. dollars.

    "In fact, the construction of Ro-Ro ship have lease technical difficulty, but in current market the demand of Ro-Ro is relatively small. in China " One industry says.

    June, the large Ro-Ro ship built by China, have successfully launched in Xiamen, breaking the history record that no one built Ro-Ro ship in domestic shipbuilding industry in 10 years. This first-building ship is which Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry have build for the British ZODIAC, and it is the series of 4300 car parking spaces, at the same time it means Chinese-made large Ro-Ro already start.

    According to reports, the Ro-Ro ship of 4,300 car parking spaces,is a ocean-going transport ship, which can carry multiple types of vehicles (such as cars, trucks, trailers, etc.) and 20 feet and 40 feet container s with excellent linear-style. This ship is total 182 meters length, 7.7 meters draft, 21 knots speed, 46,000 tons tonnage, and 12 floors continuous deck. When Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry start to build large Ro-Ro, there are eight ship owners compete to sign construction contract of Ro-Ro with them. A Norwegian ship owners asked them to build 20 Ro-Ro ships with 4300 car parking space in the next few years.

    August 25, Nantong COSCO KHI company for the Japanese Kawasaki Kisen building the Ro-Ro ship of series 5000 space have been done,which is the largest Ro-Ro ship in domestic Ro-Ro construction industry. Industry said the Ro-Ro with 5000 space can transport various type of cars, and have more potential value.

    At present, the Auto Industry of Chinese and multinational car manufacturing company is attacking the global automotive market. For this reason, Xu Ka, the manager of Nantong COSCO Kawasaki, made a cooperation: building Ro-Ro ship will get appreciation potential space in ship industry, as investing a piece of great land in the real estate industry.

    The history of Ro-Ro construction have make a breakthrough in our country, and the progress of Ro-Ro construction can support the Ro-Ro transportation without a doubt. We hope that, in the further, more and more Chinese ship factories will invest to the area of Ro-Ro contraction, and grow with Chinese automotive industry.

Time:2010/8/17  Number of visits:2405 

 

 
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