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When the Pacific Shipping Company received a notice from the Royal Assets Section to build a large-tonnage passenger ship, and said that it was a political task that could not be shied away, their hearts collapsed.

why?

No money!

Although Pacific Shipping Co., Ltd. is a royal family industry and is wholly-owned by the Royal Family Assets Section, not every company with the name of the royal family industry can become bigger and stronger.

Pacific Line is just that!

Its main business is freight, and although its name is the Pacific Ocean, it has always been running on coastal routes. Its cargo ships basically travel to and from the coast of the country. In recent years, it has also begun to participate in the Fusang route.

As for passenger transport, although there are, but the scale is not large.

More importantly, compared with several other domestic shipping giants, the strength gap between Pacific Shipping Company and other domestic shipping giants is not small.

Today's domestic shipping giants are Changjiang Shipping Company and Feng's Shipping Company. These two companies are very large in size, and whether they are freight or passenger ships, they are the top two in the country.

Even in ocean shipping, they are at the forefront, especially the Yangtze River Shipping Company, whose ocean-going ships are responsible for the transportation business of many domestic trading companies.

In the field of large-tonnage passenger transportation, the Yangtze River Shipping Company occupies a leading position. It has more than ten ships of more than 1,000 tons to carry out coastal passenger ships. The golden passenger route from Guangzhou to Shanghai has always been operated by the Yangtze River Shipping Company. Do a good job.

However, the Pacific Shipping Company, their passenger ship market is currently limited to the ordinary passenger business of small and medium-sized ships. On the Yangtze River route, its scale cannot even enter the top five, that is, on the Xijiang route in the Pearl River Basin, barely Strongly the top three.

The scale is not large, and the money is naturally not much.

Now that they were directly asked to build a large-tonnage, at least three or four thousand-ton ocean liner, they were all stunned.

Entering the field of ocean passenger transport?

It seems that no one plays like this these days!

Feng Shipping Company and Changjiang Shipping Company have competed for so many years, and their passenger transportation is not bad, but there is still no ocean liner business. Their passenger routes are generally concentrated on inland routes and coastal routes.

At present, in the domestic passenger transportation business, the Yangtze River Shipping Company occupies at least 40% of the market share, and Feng's Shipping Company also occupies more than 30% of the market share. As for other companies, they can only divide up the remaining 100%. Thirty percent of the market share.

However, the above-mentioned passenger transport markets are limited to the inland passenger transport market and the coastal passenger transport market, and there is no ocean-going passenger transport market.

Because contemporary ocean-going voyages are still dominated by freight, there are no pure ocean-going passenger ships except for the immigration ships organized by the Immigration and Reclamation Division. .

On the one hand, the market for ocean-going passenger transport is very small, and on the other hand, it is related to the high cost of ocean-going ships and high operating costs.

If an ocean-going ship simply performs shipping and earns some freight, it will lose money. Most of the ocean-going ships make profits not from the freight itself, but from the goods.

Now a large-tonnage passenger ship has been built and put into operation, running on Fusang, Nanyang or some Indian routes. To be honest, the Pacific Shipping Company has to wonder, where did so many passengers come from?

At that time, it is estimated that it will not even be able to maintain operations, let alone recover the cost of shipbuilding.

The capital required to build such a large-tonnage ocean liner in modern times is very large.

A sail-powered wooden passenger ship with a steam engine of about 1,000 tons will cost at least more than 100,000 yuan for the hull and decoration. If the decoration is more luxurious, it is possible to reach 200,000 yuan or more.

Not to mention that they were asked to build an ocean liner of 3,000-4,000 tons. For such a large ship, even an ordinary passenger liner would cost 300,000 or 400,000 to 400,000 yuan. If you add luxurious decorations, there will be no sixty-seven. In case you can't get it.

Of course, you can also not use luxurious decoration, just build an ordinary hull, and then carry more guests.

But these days, even if there are fewer people traveling by sea, it is impossible if you want to carry thousands of people every time.

In fact, most of the people who go to overseas territories by sea ships these days are people from the middle and upper classes, such as officials who travel between overseas territories and the mainland of the empire, and businessmen who do business.

Ordinary people will not run away from nothing.

If you have to say anything, it is immigration!

However, these immigrants who go overseas are currently traveling on immigration boats organized by the Immigration and Reclamation Division. The tickets for these immigrant boats are very cheap, and sometimes even free tickets are provided in order to attract immigrants.

Therefore, in contemporary ocean voyages, the source of passengers is still relatively small. Ordinary people will not travel by sea boats if they have nothing to do. Most of them are in the middle and upper classes, and these people are not very sensitive to ferry tickets. The one-way fare starts at more than ten yuan, and the first-class fare reaches several hundred yuan, but ordinary people in the middle and upper classes can accept this price.

Of course, it will be different if it is an inland passenger transport. Most of the passengers in the inland passenger transport are ordinary people, so the price of the ticket is relatively low, and Feng's Shipping Company is taking advantage of its low cost. Large-scale inland passenger transport has grabbed a large amount of market share from the Yangtze River Shipping Company.

To be honest, the management of the Pacific Shipping Company did not know why they suddenly ordered themselves to order a passenger ship of three or four thousand tons. This is a typical loss-making business.

But if you don't understand, you don't understand, and the task ordered from above is still to be done.

The executives of the Pacific Shipping Company analyzed and analyzed, and they all came to a very pessimistic conclusion. Regardless of whether it is the Fusang route or the Nanyang Airlines, or the route to India or even North America, there are not enough passengers to make it. Such a large passenger ship was maintained.

In the end, if you choose to choose, you can only focus on the domestic coastal routes.

Anyway, they just let them build and operate such a large-tonnage ocean liner, and they didn’t say that they had to operate Fusang or Nanyang routes.

And since the domestic coastal route is to be implemented, it is bound to compete with the two giants, Yangtze River Shipping and Feng Shipping. The Yangtze Shipping Company takes the route of luxury passenger ships on the coastal route, while the Feng Shipping Company is just the opposite. They are taking the route of cheap passenger ships. Both sides choose a direction, and then compete, and then both want to embezzle the other's market share.

To put it simply, Feng Shipping is trying to develop in the direction of luxury passenger ships, and Yangtze River Shipping also wants to open up the market for cheap shipping.

And after referring to the strategies of these two companies, Pacific Shipping Company decided to take it all!

Anyway, the ships they are going to build are big enough. Although there is no specific design, the upper limit is dead. At least 3,000 tons start, and it is best to be able to reach 4,000 tons.

Considering that this is a political task, if it can be big, it will not be small. As long as the technology passes the test, it must start with 4,000 tons.

On the huge hull of 4,000 tons, it is enough to provide enough space, and then it is divided into first-class, second-class and third-class cabins, and first-class luxury cabins are used to serve the powerful. The fare is set at a few hundred yuan. As for the second-class cabin, aim at It is an ordinary middle-class, and it is not expensive at tens of yuan, but it is not cheap. In addition, there is a third-class cabin, which is for ordinary passengers. The fare depends on the distance of the flight, which is about ten yuan.

This positioning also positions the passenger ship as a luxury passenger ship, and the cost of a luxury passenger ship is obviously more expensive than that of an ordinary passenger ship. It is estimated that such a ship will cost at least 600,000, or even 700,000. .

The Pacific Shipping Company can't come up with so much money, what should I do, complain to the top.

However, what surprised them was that the officials of the Royal Assets Division heard this and downplayed it. Isn't it six or seven hundred thousand, and they approved it!

The officials of the Royal Assets Division knew that this task was ordered by the Son of Heaven personally, and it was a serious political task. It didn't matter whether the ship was useful or not, it had to be built.

As for the Pacific Shipping Company's lack of money, it doesn't matter. Anyway, this company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Royal Assets Division. There is no money in the company, so the Royal Assets Division will directly allocate funds.

The royal family's asset division has a great career, and the various assets of its subordinates are increasing. If you squeeze it here, squeeze it there, you can squeeze out the six or seven million yuan.

After receiving the appropriation commitment from the top, the people of Pacific Shipping Company couldn't control so much. They directly found relevant experts from the Department of Shipping of the Royal Institute of Technology and designed a large ocean-going luxury passenger ship.

Since this ship will be the largest, most advanced, and even the most luxurious passenger ship in the history of the Empire, Pacific Shipping Company will directly use the company name as the name of this epoch-making passenger ship, calling it 'Pacific' .

The standard displacement of the Pacific will reach 4,200 tons, and it is expected to carry more than 1,000 passengers. In fact, there is still great room for expansion in the number of passengers. However, in terms of the number of passengers and comfort, the Pacific No. choose comfort.

This has also created, even the second-class cabin on the Pacific, its space and comfort are very luxurious, no less than the first-class cabins on other thousand-ton luxury passenger ships.

In order to build this huge passenger ship ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to ensure that the hull will not disintegrate when sailing and be able to withstand storms, the shipbuilding experts of the Royal Institute of Technology, when designing the ship, use a large number of steel structures to ensure The strength of the hull structure.

In order to promote this huge displacement ship, we will continue to use sail devices and use both sails and sails to propel this huge ship, not to mention the sails, let alone its steam power. The coal boiler, two high-power steam engines, and twin-propeller propulsion are expected to achieve a total power of 1,500 horsepower, which is larger than the power units of the Navy's new generation of 2,000-ton battleships.

The huge steam power is enough to allow this ship to get a speed of twelve knots!

Of course, as a luxury passenger ship, ordinary passengers don't really care about power, anyway, as long as they are not too slow, more people value the comfort of riding.

And at this point, Pacific Ocean can definitely kill all contemporary ships!

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