Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 319 Set sail
However, in deeper considerations, shipping is still a strategic industry.

Especially for military mobilization, the reason why the Rogue Eagle in World War II was able to cope with both battlefields was due to its huge shipping system, which enabled it to transport large quantities of troops, food, ammunition, weapons and fuel across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

按照任重的研究，整个二战，流氓鹰依靠18家造船厂的171个万吨造船台，以每月建造47艘的速度在1941-1945年造了2771艘1.5万吨的自由轮货船！

It is unique in the world.

At the same time, Rogue Eagle also built 155 aircraft carriers! Although many of these aircraft carriers are very reluctant escort carriers, they can only take off fighters and bombers.

In terms of transportation volume, the supplies that Rogue Eagle provided to Big Bear alone were enough for us to ravage the Japanese seven or eight times: 14000 aircraft, 49.5 military vehicles, 12000 armored vehicles, 32000 motorcycles, 13000 trains, 7944 artillery pieces of various types, and 10.8 submachine guns! .
This was achieved on the basis of a large number of transport ships sunk by Sandezi, which shows how powerful the Rogue Eagle's maritime transport power is!
However, Ren Zhong didn't want to talk about this consideration now.

The Zhang family established a shipping company in Hong Kong through the name of their own family's collateral branch. The company, which mainly operates in the Asian market, was called Asia Shipping.

The company run by Mr. Chen from Nanyang is called Global Shipping. In the future, it will expand from Asia to North America and Europe. It is now only tentatively opening a route from Asia to San Francisco.

Soon, the Zhang family and Mr. Chen found the advantages of the Dawn-class roll-on/roll-off transport ship, which is that the Dawn-class roll-on/roll-off transport ship has high horsepower and fast speed.

Although the fuel consumption is higher than that of competitors, the timeliness is much stronger.
Similarly, for transportation from Nanyang to the Japanese main island, ordinary shipping companies would take at least 10 days, and normally it would be 2 weeks one way, but for the Dawn class, it can basically be completed in just one week!

Therefore, Asia Shipping keenly launched the weekly delivery service from Southeast Asia to East Asia!
Because of the container transportation mechanism, after the containers are packed in advance at the port, 500 containers can be loaded within one day. If they do not stop at sea, they can reach the destination in less than 4 days! It takes another day to unload the containers at the other party's dock.

The launch of this business immediately became very attractive to those transportation businesses that required high timeliness. It stood out in the shipping industry and immediately attracted a large number of time-sensitive commodity transporters.

The two Dawn-class cargo ships soon entered full-load transportation status, were put into operation that month, and achieved book profits that month (amortization based on 2-year asset age)!
For shipping, this is almost a miracle.

The same is true for Global Shipping. According to the current free-ship transport loading and unloading and speed, the shortest shipping time from Asia to San Francisco is one and a half months. However, with the Dawn-class high-speed operation, it only takes 15 days to arrive at sea. In this way, Global Shipping can launch a 20-day limited-time service, with two ships shuttling back and forth. Global Shipping's 20-day limited-time delivery immediately caused a sensation in the local shipping industry after its launch. In this way, Global Shipping's business also got off to a good start.

The success of the two shipping markets greatly encouraged the Zhang family and Mr. Chen. After examining the market size, Asia Shipping proposed to expand the fleet to 2 Dawn-class ships within two years, and Global Shipping proposed to expand the fleet to 10 Dawn-class ships within three years.

Suddenly, there were more than 20 orders, which really stimulated the potential of this market.

For Liming Shipping Company, which owns three major shipyards, these orders immediately stimulated the construction of new slipways. According to the plan, the new round of slipway construction will add 4 6-ton slipways and 6000 6000-ton slipways to manufacture Liming-class roll-on/roll-off ships and the next-level 20-ton Hope-class roll-on/roll-off ships (900 standard 40-foot containers, 450 standard 10000-foot containers), and the next-level 20-ton Far-reaching-class roll-on/roll-off ships (1500 standard 40-foot containers, 680 standard -foot containers).

The reason why Asia Shipping and Global Shipping only gave more than 20 ships is that there will be larger new roll-on/roll-off transport ships coming out in the future. For the shipping market, the larger the transport ship, the more economical it is.

At most in two years, the 2-ton Hope-class will be launched, and even the 6000-ton Journey-class will be launched at about the same time.

For transport ships, the technical differences between 3000-ton and 70-ton classes are not that great. The core power subsystem ST70 is becoming more and more mature. The optimized localized version of ST90, the ST900 diesel engine, has a cylinder diameter increased to 5000 mm and a single-unit power of 6000 horsepower. A single-unit drive of 18 tons can already push a ship to a speed of more than 90 knots. If driven by two S18s, a -ton ship can also run at a speed of more than knots.

In the current major shipping market, the speed of Liberty-class transport ships is generally 11 knots, while the speed of Victory-class transport ships is 15 knots. It can be said that Dawn Shipping has firmly occupied the advantage in speed.

Of course, this does not mean that other countries do not have large passenger and cargo transport ships with faster speeds. In fact, in the 30s, the construction of large ocean-going passenger ships was mainly for high speed. For example, the famous "Queen Mary", "Queen Elizabeth" and "Normandy" were all built during this period. Their carrying capacity was over 8 tons, and their main engines were steam turbines with a power of 16 horsepower and a speed of over 30 nautical miles per hour!

This is almost the speed of an aircraft carrier.

Of course, high speed brings high fuel consumption. The fuel consumption per ton-mile at a high speed like 30 knots per hour is 18 times higher than that of 2.5 knots per hour!
Therefore, the normal shipping speed is basically controlled between 15 and 18 nautical miles, which is the economic speed obtained after many years of shipping.

With the heavy cognitive guidance and technical leadership, Asian Shipping and Global Shipping will obviously occupy an absolute dominant position in RoRo transport ships.

Next, after consolidating the bulk shipping market, Ren Zhong’s next target is oil tankers!

The rise of the post-war automobile market will generate huge demand for oil in Europe and the East, so in Ren Zhong's plan, oil tankers of more than 1.5 tons have now been included in the research scope. According to the standards of ocean-going tankers, the starting tankers will be -ton handy-class tankers with shallow draft, which can unload oil close to most docks.

而接下来将会研究3万吨级远洋级、6.8万吨级巴拿马型（船舶总长不超过274.32米，型宽不超过32.30米的运河通航）大型油船以及16万吨级的苏伊士级超大型油船计划！
This market is vast, and although there are ups and downs in the middle, Ren Zhong is not afraid of the ups and downs of shipping cycle, especially the low tide period, as he has the entire upstream and downstream of the industry chain. He will launch a large-scale expansion plan and guide the acquisition and merger of those shipping companies that cannot survive, so as to expand the fleet under his control.

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