This is also the truth. In history, Americans and Japanese took advantage of the war during World War 1, and the same is true for shipping. Even a Japanese crew member bought a ship with his friend after resigning and opened a shipping company directly after the war ended. During this period, Japan's maritime transportation profit margin was as high as more than 150%! Therefore, if we can continue to carry out maritime transportation in the name of a neutral country, we can naturally gain great benefits. Moreover, during the transportation process, we can also provide some help to German submarines and attack ships outside, such as providing fuel, food, medicine, etc.

"Then are you planning to do freight or passenger transport?" Princess Mary asked after thinking.

"Of course, we have to do freight, and the cost of passenger transport is too high. Even if we do passenger transport, we will never do fast cruise ships." The prince said. Once upon a time, high-speed cruise ships were a symbol of national strength, don't you see that in history, the Germans created the Emperor William cruise ship with a displacement of up to 14,000 tons and a speed of 22.5 knots in 1897. It also set a record of the fastest ships to and from the Atlantic that year.

Behind the cruise ship scenery is huge expenses, and the ship's speed and fuel consumption are not proportional. Take the famous cruiser in history as an example. If this light cruiser with a normal displacement of more than 3,600 tons and a full load displacement of more than 4,000 tons, if it sails at an economic speed of 12 knots, it will only consume 2 tons of coal per hour. If it sails rapidly at a speed of 23 knots, the hourly coal consumption is as high as 15.7 tons! Almost 8 times the economic speed!

If it is converted into the consumption of the same range, it is 4 times! Not to mention that the blue ribbons later could travel between the two sides of the Atlantic at a speed of 24 or even 26 knots. Not to mention the construction funds and maintenance costs, the consumption of fuel alone is amazing.

Some people may say that you can sail slowly, so now the problem is again. Advanced cruise ships are all aimed at high-end customers. What they need is time. If you double the time you sail at sea, then how do you calculate the price? And fuel is saved, but the food, accommodation and service personnel expenses of thousands of people on the ship have increased, so it is very risky to start a high-speed cruise. In history, those blue ribbons were also in trouble due to economic reasons. These include the Emperor cruise ship and the Bismarck cruise ship that were compensated to the British after the end of World War 1.

"Then you need to ask your Italian designer to design a good ship for us." Princess Mary said with a little displeasure. Women, in addition to their favorite shopping, various clothing, and those shiny and golden things, they also like cool things like sports cars. As a princess of a country, it is understandable that she likes luxury cruise ships...

"Well, recently, for some well-known reasons, I have had some disagreements with Count Vittorio Kuniberty, but if you want to talk about a suitable ocean transport ship, I have one!" said the prince.

From now on, the ship is enough to be loaded. The prince of high-tech and high-investment fast cruise ships does not plan to do it. There are no high-end ships such as natural gas ships, mixed passenger and cargo ships, and container ships. Therefore, the most practical ships in this plane are ships such as freewheels that are easy to mass production and super-capable!

Of course, Germany in this plane cannot be compared with the United States in history in the second battle. Not to mention assembling a steamer in less than 5 days, the prince of Amitabha would be able to complete a 14,000-ton cargo ship in 300 days! However, some of the methods and ideas can still be learned from.

The first point is to modularize the product and standardize production! The various accessories of a ship are standardized as much as possible and distribute them to as many factories for production. The principle is similar to the assembly line, but it only makes the things bigger. The prince has done an attempt in this regard. The prototype of the Sea Wolf attack ship is actually a civilian ship with marked production.

Second, it makes sense for the freewheel to choose a displacement of 14,000 tons for suitable tonnage and various accessories, because if the tonnage is too small, the ship's trial sailing ability and economy will be very poor. After all, everything is about an economies of scale. If it is too large, the construction difficulty and cost will be a problem. So at the beginning, the size of the cargo ship chosen by the prince was between 5,000 tons and 7,000 tons. Now, since the ocean-going ship is going to be built, the tonnage must naturally be increased to about 10,000 tons. The length of more than 100 meters, the width of 20 meters, and the draft of about 7.5 meters is enough to adapt to most ports in the world.

As for the so-called accessories, it is to deal with the diversity of cargo loading in ships. The free wheels built during the war were very simple, with a total of eight cabins, and the cabin on the bow was loaded with ballast water and anchor chambers. The No. 4 warehouse in the middle of the hull was a power cabin. The ship's power was very low, using an old steam engine, with a output of several thousand horsepower, and a maximum speed of 11 knots. Then the remaining 6 were cargo warehouses, and this kind of cargo warehouse had only two layers. The upper layer generally contained various items, and the lower layer generally contained water, fuel, etc.

During the war, these ships transported thick and solid cargo such as aircraft, cannons, cannons and ammunition. Such simple results are naturally acceptable. However, if it is normal, it is inevitable to transport some easily rotten grain crops or other vulnerable items. In this way, the open warehouse needs to be improved. In order to accommodate some fragile products, multiple decks are also required.

The prince's method is to produce such simple ships, and also produce some other accessories so that they can be improved in the port and can be used for transportation of multiple goods. Originally, the prince wanted to see if he wanted to make up the standardized containers of later generations.

But looking at the current situation, cars are not popular. How to transport the large containers unloaded at the port? Can they be pulled by carriages? Obviously not! So, the prince decided to start making some smaller standardized boxes that can be dragged by carriages and can be accepted by current unloading equipment such as cranes.

In terms of power selection, the prince finally chose a kerosene mixed-fired boiler. There are two reasons. The first is that the cost of kerosene mixed-fired boiler is more cost-effective than that of a pure coal boiler. The second reason is that the cost of kerosene mixed-fired boiler is relatively low. Under the same quality, the best coal burns is about half of the heavy oil. Moreover, coal needs to be cleaned up coal ash. The labor cost will be higher. Secondly, these ships have to go on international routes, and if they run American routes, they will naturally not lack heavy oil. After all, the United States is the largest oil-producing country now. If there is no oil, coal can be made up!
Chapter completed!