Someone else continued: "When I first heard about the New Star project, I couldn't imagine what would happen today. A New Star that has not yet been completed could actually enhance our company's brand influence!"
Another person said: "Yes, the competition in the mid-to-high-end market is, to put it bluntly, the competition of corporate brands, and New Star has now become our most dazzling corporate brand!"
Guo Yaxing, however, suppressed his hand: "It's just a small fight now. When the New Star is put into operation next year, we will be able to completely crush all our opponents!"
Guo Yaxin looked at his group of senior executives and continued to speak loudly: "Everyone must keep a clear mind and take advantage of the market reaction brought about by the new star in a timely manner to fully demonstrate our advantages in the mid-to-high-end market!"
"A Nova costs us three million dollars. After it is put into operation in the future, even if it is welcomed by passengers, it will be quite long to rely on the Nova itself to make back the money, but we don't need how much money it brings.
Operating profit, what we need is the impact it brings."
“So, the mid-range market is our real target!”
"The construction of mid-range passenger ships must be accelerated, otherwise, we will not have enough passenger ships!"
A bystander said: "Yeah, when people used to talk about our Fung Line's passenger ships, their first reaction was low-end and low-cost flights. Even our luxury passenger ships are unaffordable!"
"But now, when talking about the passenger ships of our Fung Shipping Company, people's first impression is of the super giant ship Nova. Many people think that since we have a super passenger ship like Nova, other luxury passenger ships are not far behind.
This is a huge improvement to our brand image!”
"Recently, our mid-range passenger ship flights have been saturated many times, and the need for new capacity is very urgent!"
"We have already purchased a 4,000-ton passenger ship from Luzon Shipping Company. After emergency modification, it will be put into use on the new route in half a month!"
"But this is the last second-hand passenger ship we can buy. The current passenger transport market is rising step by step. Although the operations of various shipping companies have some differences, they are generally making money. They will not easily
Passenger ship for sale!”
"So what we can do is to increase the procurement and construction of mid-range passenger ships in a short period of time!"
"Currently, our three shipyards, Songjiang No. 1 Shipyard, Songjiang No. 2 Shipyard, and Zhujiang No. 3 Shipyard, which are capable of building mid- to high-end passenger ships, are operating at full capacity. In addition to building luxury passenger ships, our shipyards also need to build luxury passenger ships.
More passenger and cargo ships need to be built!”
"Our Feng Shipping Company's business is not limited to the mid-to-high-end passenger ship market. As you all know, our foundation is still the ordinary passenger transport market and the freight market. These two major businesses not only contribute to our company's shipping business.
It accounts for 80% of the revenue, and more importantly, it drives the development of other subsidiaries of our company, such as shipyards, steel, chemicals and other industries."
"Without the cheap passenger and freight markets, our company's overall performance will be directly cut in half!"
Guo Yadong said: "Since your own shipyard is too busy, then order from the outside world. No matter what, I don't hope that our customers will not switch to ships of other shipping companies because our passenger ships are full!"
Although Feng Shipping Company mostly operates its own system, produces and sells its own products, and strives to build an entire ecological chain, they will also cooperate with outsiders at critical moments.
For example, although the construction of the Nova was undertaken by Songjiang No. 1 Shipyard, a subsidiary of Fung Shipping Company, many parts and subsystems were not supplied by other subsidiaries.
For example, take the steam engine unit. Fung Shipping Company has a subsidiary that specializes in the production of steam engines. Although it does not fully control it, but only holds 40% of the shares, it is still an important part of their supply chain.
, in the past, most of their company’s shipboard steam engines were supplied by this subsidiary.
However, the steam units on the Nova and other 10,000-ton passenger and cargo ships are all supplied by the Naval Steam Engine Factory.
The same is true for the steel used in shipbuilding. Feng's Shipping Company has a complete steel supply chain, from iron mines, coal mines and steel plants for steelmaking. It is all available. However, the countless steel used on the Nova,
Only ordinary steel materials are directly supplied by Feng Steel Factory, and some special steel materials are supplied by Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company.
There are also two huge propellers on the Nova. They are super large alloy copper propellers with a diameter of several meters. They seem simple, but in fact the technical content is very high. Not only is it difficult to cast, but more importantly, the quality of this thing
Only Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company can supply raw materials.
Therefore, although Feng Shipping Company strives to build a complete ecological supply chain, it has already extended its guarding hands to the iron ore and coal mines at the source.
But in this era of big industry, Feng Shipping Company still can't just mess around like it did more than ten years ago, and can just keep everything in its own hands.
In many areas, Feng Shipping Company still has to cooperate with other manufacturers.
There is nothing that can be done about this. No matter how powerful Feng Shipping Company is, it cannot rebuild the entire industrial system.
Shipbuilding requires an entire industrial system.
More often than not, what Feng Shipping Company does is only control at the assembly stage, but it is impossible to truly control the entire industrial chain.
It doesn't have that ability!
Not to mention private enterprises like Feng Shipping Company, even if the state-owned enterprises are 100% controlled by the three major arms companies, they have hundreds of factories, but they still cannot be self-sufficient from beginning to end. They still need
Cooperate with other companies.
With the development of technology and the passage of time, the industrial production of the Tang Empire became more and more fragmented and specialized. This was due to the advancement of science and technology.
For example, it is very simple to say that all kinds of telescopes are necessary for going overseas. Many ordinary factories can produce telescopes.
However, the quality is generally very poor. Captains will not choose these messy telescopes when they go to sea. They generally purchase telescopes produced by Guangzhou Optical Manufacturing Factory.
Guangzhou Optical Manufacturing Factory produces various types of telescopes, not to mention those for military use. Guangzhou Optical Manufacturing Factory has always been the main supplier of various types of military telescopes designated by the Army and Navy.
But even if they are as strong as Guangzhou Optical Manufacturing Factory, they can only occupy the leading position in a few small categories in the field of optical instruments. For example, in the field of scientific research and education optical instruments, they are completely unable to compete with Jiujiang Glass Company.