In recent years, the Spaniards have been increasing their cooperation with the Tang Dynasty in shipping. They do not have enough ships of their own, and they are slow and greatly affected by the seasons.
Therefore, many Spanish merchants have actually begun to hire Tang Dynasty's transport ships to help them transport people and goods.
Let’s not talk about the transportation of goods, but let’s talk about the transportation of people.
For these Spaniards, if too many workers died on the journey, it would be a great loss. It was better to avoid death or not.
The personnel transport ships of the Pacific Line seem to be in poor condition, but that is compared to passenger ships. But if you compare it with the ships used by the Spanish and the English to transport slaves, the conditions are very good.
too much.
The Pacific Shipping Company was stimulated by the relocation of various countries in Southeast Asia, and placed orders for dozens of ships at once. Moreover, the orders received were not large shipyards, but basically small and medium-sized shipyards, many of which were established
There are shipyards on inland rivers, the kind with poor technology.
But the technology for this kind of thousand-ton personnel transport ship is very simple, and it can be built by many inland shipyards.
Pacific Shipping Company did this, and other shipping companies also did the same, and they all ordered a lot of personnel transport ships.
These shipping companies are all preparing for relocation to various countries in Southeast Asia.
At the same time, it is also preparing for the larger-scale immigration activities in the empire in the following years.
The Immigration and Reclamation Department signed a cooperation agreement with them. In addition to moving people to Southeast Asian countries, it also has its own immigration activities.
Each of these shipping companies are smart people. From this, they have already seen that the passenger transport industry will continue to rise significantly in the future, and at the same time, the freight industry will also continue to rise significantly.
For this reason, orders for various passenger ships and cargo ships are flying like snowflakes to the desks of major shipyards.
These passenger ships are no longer simple personnel transport ships, but serious passenger ships.
The empire has strict regulations on these professional passenger ships, and has strict regulations on construction technical standards and safety standards to ensure the safety of passengers at a minimum.
At the same time, considering the issue of operating costs, the new passenger ships ordered by major shipping companies are relatively large. Generally, the tonnage exceeds 3,000 tons, and there are many more than 5,000 tons. Some leading shipping companies even ordered 10,000-ton luxury ships.
Orders for passenger ships.
Since Pacific Lines placed an order for the 10,000-ton luxury liner New Pacific, although this luxury liner has not yet been built, other shipping companies have followed suit.
The boss of the shipping company, Yangtze River Shipping Company, has also placed an order for a 10,000-ton luxury liner.
The second largest player in the shipping industry, Fung Shipping Company was not to be outdone, and also placed an order for a 10,000-ton luxury liner.
Then there are the top ten shipping companies, which have successively placed orders for 10,000-ton luxury liner, which can be regarded as officially launching the competition for 10,000-ton luxury liner.
By then, these 10,000-ton luxury passenger ships will become new models of ocean passenger transportation. If these huge 10,000-ton luxury passenger ships have more third-class cabins and more berths along the way, they can transport thousands of people at a time.
Woolen cloth.
Of course, even if these luxury passenger ships are built, they will be relatively expensive and few in number, so not many people will be able to actually ride them.
For the annual exodus of hundreds of thousands of people from the Tang Empire, the capacity of a few luxury passenger ships to carry thousands of people was nothing at all.
The main ships used to transport immigrants are still a large number of ordinary passenger ships.
These passenger transports, with average riding conditions and ranging in tonnage from two to three thousand tons to four to five thousand tons, are currently the main force of maritime passenger transport in the Tang Empire.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are shipped overseas every year.
However, only the immigrants of the Tang Empire were so valuable, and hundreds of thousands of them used such a huge transport capacity.
If they are Spanish laborers or workers from several labor service companies, their annual transportation volume is not small, adding up to hundreds of thousands. However, the transportation capacity required to transport these people is even five times that of the Imperial Passenger Ships.
Not even one!
When major shipping companies received the huge immigration plan from Nanyang Relocation and the subsequent Immigration and Reclamation Division, and began large-scale shipbuilding, it also brought a new round of surging development opportunities to the shipbuilding industry of the Tang Empire.
In the past, although the shipbuilding industry of the Tang Empire was developing at a high speed, this rapid development has actually slowed down in recent years.
Because after more than ten years of rapid development, when the total tonnage of Datang's ships has exceeded four million tons, although subsequent development will continue, it has already gone through the initial explosive development.
Although there are many orders for new ships, due to the development of shipbuilding technology, the requirements for the shipbuilding industry are also constantly increasing. This is due to the fact that although the shipbuilding industry in the Tang Empire developed rapidly, the total number of shipyards did not explode.
This can be seen in the continued growth.
Because the orders for these new ships, especially the orders for offshore and ocean-going ships, which are the most profitable, are generally of relatively large tonnage, and small shipyards are not strong enough to undertake such orders, so they are all snatched up by medium and large shipyards.
But now, when major shipping companies have begun a new round of orders for dozens or even hundreds of ships, it is not only the medium and large shipyards that have been stimulated.
Even those small shipyards want to take advantage of this opportunity to develop!
For a time, the shipbuilding industry in the Tang Empire showed the same explosive prosperity as ten years ago. It can be seen that major shipyards are expanding their production capacity.
This also indirectly drives the development of other industries, such as the steel industry, which is the most closely related.
Nowadays, the empire's shipbuilding, even inland river vessels, are generally built with steel. The entire shipbuilding industry has become the largest single steel consumption market in the empire, and its importance is comparable to that of railway construction.
Thanks to the development of the shipbuilding industry, several major steel companies also received a large number of orders for shipbuilding steel, and then successively started the pace of expanding production capacity.
Also greatly affected is the coal industry!
Today, a major customer of the coal industry is the shipping industry.
The shipping industry has set off a trend of explosive growth, which immediately led to the development of the coal industry.
The first is the rise in coal prices, and once the prices rise, more people see profits, and a lot of capital begins to pour into the coal industry and begin to mine more coal.
In particular, coal mines in Tangshan, Shanxi, Northeast and other regions have received large amounts of investment and have been opened to expand production.