Chinese shipbuilding industry
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China's great asset is its human capital and the industrial skill transfer from generation to generation. The hard work it takes to teach the next generation how to do blue collar jobs like welders and electricians.
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The boiler system of the Adora Flower City has been fired up for the first time. Note the boilers are not for propulsion but are for onboard heating, providing hot water, and so on.
The backup/emergency refrigeration and air conditioning system has been installed and activated.
a lot of it comes from Qataris who cannot use pipeline to export gas.
Interesting. Surprised S.Korea is still dominating LNG tankers so much though, giving their small size and limited skilled labor compared to china
Korean yards have been building LNG tankers for decades. Chinese yards only really entered the sector in the past few years, when there simply wasn't enough capacity in Korea to handle global orders.
And Korea is comfortably #2 in shipbuilding, they punch way above their weight.
Yes I’m really surprised by South Koreas performance to be honest. In many sectors they punch wayyyyyy above their weight/size. It’s really impressive. Can only imagine how powerful they will be if they had even half of China’s size. Guess it’s a good thing Korea is divided actually. They will be even more powerful if they were united I guess.
Larger Korea is basically Japan (during its heyday). Much larger Japan is basically China. Oversimplification, of course, but the technoindustrial economic models all have a lot in common.