CHAPTER 67: CHAPTER 67 LEICESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND SHIP EXHIBITION!

Developing the maritime industry is currently the top priority for Jade Island.

However, how to develop it is a question worth pondering.

For this, Jiang Cheng also has his own considerations.

At present, Jade Island can be considered a unique existence in the world.

To ordinary people, it is a dream paradise with primitive scenery and futuristic technology, but to some countries, it is a thorn in their side.

If it weren’t for the complex international situation around it, the stability of Jade Island’s existence would still be in question.

Therefore, in such an international context, as the Island Master, Jiang Cheng needs to think more deeply.

The success of the "Transformer" flying car shining on the world stage was indeed within Jiang Cheng’s expectations, though there were some coincidental factors.

That is, the highly developed internet technology enabled the dissemination of information at an unimaginable speed.

It was precisely because of the promotion by a vast number of tourists that this epoch-making technological product, the flying car, was able to spread worldwide in just a few days, thereby creating the now internationally renowned Jade Paradise!

So, to develop the maritime industry and promote the super-cavitating propeller, this black tech product, we must follow this approach.

Thinking of this, Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes and pondered slightly.

Then Jiang Cheng dialed Tina’s number, asking her to investigate whether there were any important international exhibitions related to the shipping industry coming up.

Soon, the highly efficient Tina sent Jiang Cheng a list of international maritime exhibitions.

Jiang Cheng filtered through them slightly, targeting a world-class maritime exhibition to be held next month.

Leicestershire Ship Exhibition!

Jiang Cheng was somewhat familiar with Leicestershire, as it was known as the shipbuilding capital of the world.

Back in the last century, it was a renowned shipbuilding center in the British Empire, with tens of thousands of various ships launched here and sailed across the globe, ushering in that historically significant age of exploration.

The Leicestershire Ship Exhibition is the largest and most influential maritime exhibition in the world.

The exhibition is co-organized by the renowned British shipyard Chatham and the world’s largest cruise ship manufacturer Fincantieri, making it the best place for maritime exhibitors and shipping companies to conduct business and generate profits.

Established in 1974, this longstanding exhibition has garnered the attention of many global ship buyers. The main audience includes design engineers, R&D personnel, production engineers from the shipbuilding industry, as well as ship magazine editors and other ship enthusiasts.

It can be said that the Leicestershire Ship Exhibition is the benchmark for contemporary shipbuilding development; every new ship and manufacturing technology exhibited becomes a model that the industry mimics for the foreseeable future, carrying significant authority.

As for the range of exhibits, it covers large ocean-going cruise ships, tourist boats, car ferries, inland passenger ships, and other high-speed passenger ships, bulk carriers such as coal carriers, ore carriers, timber carriers, and container ships that use standard containers as freight units, and of course, LNG ships, currently considered the most challenging to manufacture and dubbed the "jewel in the crown" of the world’s shipbuilding industry.

LNG ships are specialized vessels that transport liquefied gas at a low temperature of minus 163 degrees Celsius, likened to "super freezers on the sea."

These large transport ships are high-tech, high-difficulty, and high-value-added "three-highs" products and are contested territories for all shipyards worldwide, with only the most top-tier shipyards capable of building them, naturally leading to substantial profits.

The cost of a single LNG carrier is as high as 300 to 400 million USD, and its deck area is equivalent to 40 basketball courts combined, with a carrying capacity of 150,000 cubic meters, sufficient to supply a large city with a population of 30 million for a month.

Natural gas has become an indispensable energy source for modern human life, and precisely because of its uniqueness, the market prospects for LNG ships are very broad.

Therefore, in aiming to develop the maritime industry, the LNG ship is an unavoidable competitive high ground for Jiang Cheng.

Looking at the exhibition introduction sent by Tina, Jiang Cheng’s lips curled up slightly, revealing a meaningful smile.

It can be said that this exhibition is precisely the opportunity he anticipated, an opportunity to once again make Jade Island’s name famous and shock the world!

Of course, the prerequisite is that he must present his product.

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Since receiving the introduction to the Leicestershire Ship Exhibition, Jiang Cheng became busy.

He first instructed Tina and Monica to make sure to contact the exhibition organizers and obtain an invitation letter, then discuss the exhibition arrangements.

Meanwhile, he drove Hai, patrolling Jade Island day and night.

To showcase his product, building a shipyard was essential, and choosing the location became paramount.

Therefore, these days, Jiang Cheng was extremely preoccupied with selecting a site for the shipyard, even rejecting an invitation from Guan Xiaofei and Su Qianqian to hang out together.

There was nothing to be done; although he too wished to seize the opportunity to enjoy a soak with two beauties—no, go swimming together—the future of Jade Island was more important, and besides, he had already arranged for Monica to get them Jade Island green cards, so they could meet anytime in the future, with plenty of opportunities to soak together.

For Jiang Cheng’s refusal, Guan Xiaofei and Su Qianqian were naturally quite furious, thinking that Jiang Cheng, that philanderer, must be secretly fooling around with Monica.

Thus, as they explored Laputa City, they silently cursed Jiang Cheng as a heartless philanderer in their hearts.

Of these matters, Jiang Cheng was naturally unaware, as he was wholeheartedly focused on the shipyard site selection.

With the exhibition date approaching, Jiang Cheng’s time was very limited, and Monica had already successfully persuaded the exhibition organizers to grant an invitation letter.

Upon hearing that Jade Island would attend the exhibition, the organizer’s chairman, who is also a director of the Fincantieri Shipyard, Mr. Sandro, was naturally very surprised.

In his perception, Jade Island’s flying car manufacturing technology is world-class, but he had never heard of a first-class shipyard on the island.

So, he initially expressed skepticism at Monica’s request to participate, but when he recalled how the flying cars dazzled the world overnight, a thought he dared not believe flashed through his mind, which led him to agree to Monica’s request.

Since the invitation letter was secured, the current task was to see if Jiang Cheng could deliver his product.