Fang Yunhu, General Manager of Yangzhou Jinling, Wang Dong, Chief Engineer, Chen Yuan, Deputy General Manager. Lin Li, Vice president of American Register of Shipping. Liang Zongqing, General Manager of Shanghai Odeli Marine Engineering. Wu Guirong, Executive Vice General Manager of Junzheng Logistics. Si Liang, Vice General Manager of Junzheng Logistics and General Manager of SC Shipping, Xu Jiajun, Executive Vice General Manager of Asset Management Department, Liu Renjie, Manager of Supervision Department, attended the ceremony.
The two 25,900 deadweight ton stainless steel chemical vessels signed this contract are designed by Shanghai Oudeli Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. and classified into ABS classification Society. They are double-bottom and double-hulled chemical vessels. The ship has a total length of 157.99 meters, a width of 27 meters, a depth of 14.2 meters, a design draft of 9.5 meters, a structural draft of 10.4 meters, and a service speed of 14 knots. The whole ship meets the Tier III and EEDI III specifications, and is a new generation of green, environmental protection and energy saving ship.
Introduction of partner
Yangzhou Jinling is a subsidiary of China Merchants Industry Group Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "China Merchants Industry"). Relying on China Merchants Industry's branches in more than 10 countries and global customer resources, focusing on market segments. Jinling is committed to building a world-class small and medium-sized chemical tanker and gas tanker construction base. The company has successfully delivered 60 chemical tankers of 3,600-25,900 DWT to domestic and foreign shipowners, with holding nearly 30 chemical tanker orders, ranking first in the world in the number of orders for small and medium-sized chemical tankers. It is a domestic first-class and internationally renowned chemical tanker construction enterprise. In November 2022, Yangzhou Jinling Convenient Chemical Tanker was selected as the seventh batch of national manufacturing individual champion products.
'Junzheng Logistics is the leading chemical tank owner in China,' Mr. Fang said. ‘It's been years since Jinling's hope to win a global position for Chinese shipbuilding and shipping came true by joining forces with a strong local tanker owner.' Junzheng Logistics "25900 Project" is the first medium stainless steel chemical tanker project undertaken by Yangzhou Jinling in China, which has milestone significance for Yangzhou Jinling. The domestic chemical tanker project will not only fill the demand of production capacity, but also gradually become one of the main ship types of Yangzhou Jinling mass. So as to help Yangzhou Jinling truly realize the development goal of "double circulation of domestic and foreign trade, providing high-quality construction services for local shipowners". This project can not only expand the diversified cooperation and development channels of Junzheng Logistics, but also lay a solid foundation for the long-term in-depth cooperation between the two sides.
Mr. Wu noted that Junzheng Logistics is the world's leading liquid chemicals logistics service operator, the only chemical shipping company in China with global transocean fine chemicals carryload capacity, the highest safety standard liquid chemicals carrier in China, and the company has branches in Tokyo, Singapore and Rotterdam. Currently, 80 chemical vessels of various types are in operation, with deadweight ranging from 3,300 tons to 40,000 tons, with a total capacity of 1.3 million tons. At the same time, Junzheng Logistics has more than 42,000 containerized logistics and leasing business worldwide; Lianyungang also has two 50,000-ton liquid chemical terminals and 170,000-cubic meter liquid chemical storage tanks. Junzheng Logistics closely follows the global and industrial development trend, responds to the national "One Belt, One Road" call and the pace of customer logistics demand growth, actively increases ship capital investment, timely planning new shipping capacity, is committed to providing customers with better logistics services, for the international and domestic petrochemical customers of liquid chemical logistics needs to provide quality services.
In line with the cooperative spirit of "Reciprocity, mutual benefit, stability, permanence and win-win", and based on both sides' excellent enterprise management philosophy and professionalism, Junzheng Logistics and Yangzhou Jinling decided to jointly carry out in-depth and continuous cooperation in the field of chemical tanker shipbuilding in the future for the consideration of long-term development and win-win cooperation. Junzheng Logistics is very glad to have such an excellent deep cooperation partner. We hope that both parties can establish a long-term and effective communication mechanism, make full use of the operation and market resources owned by or relying on the parent company and the shareholder company, continue to strengthen the bond and optimize the deep cooperation between both parties.
This is the third time that Junzheng Logistics has placed an order to build a ship this year after signing two 7,200 DWT and two 11,200 DWT chemical vessels.
