Optical instruments with relatively large sales volume among the private sector are mainly large high-power telescopes for ships used at sea and small telescopes for captains. In the private sector, the market share of Guangzhou Optical Manufacturing Factory can reach more than 85%.
However, the market share of Guangzhou Optical Manufacturing Factory in scientific research fields such as astronomical telescopes and microscopes is extremely low, and most of the market share is basically taken by Jiujiang Glass Company.
Jiujiang Glass Company initially specialized in the production of various types of glassware for scientific research, and then invested heavily in the field of optical instruments for scientific research such as microscopes and astronomical telescopes.
Guangzhou Optical Manufacturing Factory and Jiujiang Glass Company are going to two different extremes. Guangzhou Optical Manufacturing Factory focuses on stability, durability, and optical products that can be used in various environments, whether it is military or civilian captains
They all pay great attention to these. After all, the conditions on the battlefield and on the sea are very complex, and poor applicability is not enough.
But Jiujiang Glass Company pays attention to extreme performance, pays attention to patience, and stability is not important at all, because optical products for scientific research require the most extreme performance. As for stability and durability, those scientists are not at all concerned.
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In the small industry of optical instruments alone, Datang has at least two companies that occupy leading positions and have absolute monopoly advantages in technology.
Although their company's scale and market value are not too large, they have real materials, and they have been researching and producing the same type of products for decades and continuously making improvements.
After such accumulation, it will be very, very difficult for other manufacturers to enter and catch up.
This is true for optical instruments, and it is true for many other industries. Sometimes even ordinary screws will often have a small factory that specializes in producing them and has extremely high technical standards.
This is an inevitability of the development in the era of large-scale industrialization. Various industries have emerged one after another. There are few companies that can handle everything and produce all spare parts by themselves.
This situation even led the Ministry of Commerce to issue industrial standardization documents and promote them throughout the empire's industrial circles.
To put it simply, it means formulating various standards, such as screws. In the past, each manufacturer used screws of different specifications, which could not be matched at all. However, with the emergence of industrial standards, screws have unified standards, and the screws produced by each manufacturer
They are all of unified specifications, which helps reduce costs and improve the efficiency of the entire industrial system.
The same is true for today's Feng Shipping Company. Although they are large and have many subsidiaries to provide supporting services, they still cannot complete the construction of that small ship alone. They still need to cooperate with external manufacturers to purchase various parts and components for shipbuilding.
Then put the vessel into service.
But even so, Feng Shipping Company still has a huge cost advantage, making them invincible in the mid- to low-end market and competing for a large amount of market share.
However, it has not happened for a long time that ships are ordered directly from other shipyards like now.
So when Shamian Shipyard received an order for two 7,000-ton passenger ships from Feng Shipping Company, they themselves were a little surprised.
When did the Feng Shipping Company lose its temper and order ships from outside shipyards?
But although I am surprised, it is naturally a good thing to have orders.
Shamian Shipbuilding is striving to become one of the top ten shipyards in the country. As long as you pay them, they will accept orders from Feng Shipping Company or not.
In order to compete for the mid-range passenger transport market as quickly as possible, Fung Shipping Company did not hesitate to purchase second-hand ships and order new passenger ships from other shipyards.
The construction of the new star is also ongoing.
Many people traveling to and from the Huangpu River can see the New Star under construction in the huge dock of the First Shipyard every time they pass by the First Shipyard.
Fung Shipping Company completely treated the Nova as an advertisement, because the construction process was not kept secret at all, and they even wanted people to talk about it.
After the steam unit was installed, the construction of the Nova also entered the final critical stage. They needed to complete the construction of the middle and upper hull of the hull.
It is expected that it will take about half a year to be launched into the water. However, being launched into the water does not mean that it can be put into service. A large-scale outfitting will be carried out later. Outfitting is not only the installation of various equipment, but more importantly, decoration.
As a luxury passenger ship, its decoration level directly determines the attractiveness of the Nova after operation.
If the decoration is not up to standard, the large tonnage is of no use.
People's expectations for the new star are not only because of its size, but also because of its extremely luxurious decoration.
If it is purely based on tonnage, many of today's large-tonnage bulk cargo ships are tens of thousands of tons, but have you ever seen any dignitaries boarding bulk cargo ships of 10,000 tons?
The construction of the Nova continued, ushering in the era of giant ships!
But what is surprising is that the Nova has been under construction for so long, and none of the other shipping companies have been able to follow suit.
There is no way, not all shipping companies can spend more than three million yuan to build a luxury liner that is obviously unable to return the money!
The Pacific Shipping Company wanted to do it, but it didn't have the money.
The Yangtze River Shipping Company wanted to do it and had the money to do it, but the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises did not approve it and believed that such a waste of money was unnecessary.
In addition to these three major shipping companies, other shipping companies cannot do it even if they want to.
Lack of money is a drawback!
But this does not mean that they have no countermeasures. Compared with the super luxury passenger ships of 30,000 tons, other shipping companies have unanimously chosen the construction plan of passenger ships of around 10,000 tons and below.
After all, from a market perspective, the main market is the passenger ship market of several thousand tons to 10,000 tons. The market for luxury passenger ships is actually very limited, and the profits brought to major companies are not actually very large.
For example, Pacific Lines has launched an improved version of the New Pacific Series and is preparing to launch a 13,000-ton luxury liner called the Mediterranean Series. This Mediterranean Series of liner is, to put it bluntly, old wine in a new bottle.
As for the Yangtze River Shipping Company, they are somewhat unwilling to do so. They have the money to build a large-tonnage ultra-luxury passenger ship, but the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises does not approve it.
In desperation, they had no choice but to change their plans, and finally launched the 15,000-ton luxury liner Tiangong and its follow-up ships. The entire plan was called the Tiangong Project.
Other shipping companies, regardless of whether they have money or not, are striving to build 10,000-ton luxury liner as their flagship.
However, it is worth noting that whether it is the three major shipping companies or other shipping companies, their main passenger ships are still mid-range passenger ships, and the tonnage of ocean-going ships is around four to five thousand tons, and the larger ones may be seven to eight thousand tons.
10,000-ton luxury passenger ships are only flagship ships and are very rare!