Another two vessels are being built at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard, located just across the Yangtze River from Jiangnan. As part of the $1.5 billion deal, Carnival transferred two of its existing cruise ships to the new joint venture. Perhaps even more striking, in 2016, Carnival Cruise Lines entered a joint venture with CSSC to stand up CSSC Cruise Technology Development. GTT systems also feature in Chinese-built vessels for Hapag Lloyd (German) and Mitsui OSK Lines (Japanese). According to reports released by GTT, over two dozen of the ships that CMA CGM ordered from Jiangnan and Hudong-Zhonghua since 2019 utilized GTT technology. French multinational naval engineering company Gaztransport & Technigaz SA (GTT) has entered into several agreements to make its technology available to Chinese shipbuilders. They also share technology and know-how with CSSC subsidiaries. Eleven of these will be constructed at Hudong-Zhonghua, where China built its first three Type 075 amphibious assault vessels.įoreign companies are tied to Chinese shipbuilders by more than just purchase orders. Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K-Line) and Mitsui OSK Lines from Japan, a country that boasts its own robust shipbuilding industry, have ordered 13 LNG carriers from China since 2019. Switzerland’s Mediterranean Shipping Company, the largest container shipping company in the world in terms of cargo capacity, ordered three container ships from Dalian in March 2021 and another six in January 2022. In a near perfect encapsulation of the growing worry over “dual-use” technology, the same dry dock where the Type 003 currently sits was previously occupied by a CMA CGM container ship.Ĭompanies from other leading democracies are likewise pumping capital into China’s shipbuilding industry. These orders include some of the world's largest container ships powered by liquified natural gas (LNG), many of which were built at Jiangnan. French shipping titan CMA CGM has placed at least 46 orders totaling several billion dollars with a handful of Chinese shipyards since 2017. It should raise more than a few eyebrows in Taipei that Taiwan’s premier shipping company is pouring money into the coffers of shipyards assembling warships for the Chinese navy.Įvergreen is by no means the only foreign firm that relies on China’s shipbuilding prowess. The island lives under constant pressure from Beijing, which seeks to unify Taiwan with the Chinese mainland, by force if necessary. Buying merchant ships from China presents a real security concern for Taiwan.
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