The Adora Magic City is heavily reliant on foreign technology. According to the cruise’s chief designer, only 30% of the ship was built by domestic suppliers, while the rest was sourced from Europe.
“After delivering the first home-grown large cruise ship Adora Magic City, China has the ability to build all types of maritime ship products.”On January 1, China’s first domestically manufactured cruise ship, the Adora Magic City, left its dock in Shanghai on a seven-day voyage to South Korea and Japan.
Featuring international cuisine, state-of-the-art theaters and large duty-free shops, along with a mahjong lounge and hotpot restaurant, the Adora Magic City is aimed at serving China’s expanding middle class. Passengers wait in line to board China's first domestically built cruise ship the Adora Magic City in Shanghai, on Jan. 1, 2024. Chinese state media hailed the cruise ship as a major milestone for the Chinese shipbuilding industry and “a crown jewel.” In a February 13 post on its X account, Chinese state media’s Global Times quoted China’s Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry as saying: “After delivering the first home-grown large cruise ship Adora Magic City, China has the ability to build all types of maritime ship products.”The Adora Magic City was built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Corporation, a subsidiary of the state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corporation . The cruise ship weighs 135,500 metric tons, is 323 meters long and has a capacity of 5,246 passengers,many of the Adora Magic City’s components.domestic media that out of the 110 suppliers Shanghai Waigaoqiao worked with, roughly 30% were Chinese companies, while the rest were foreign companies., a joint venture between Carnival Corporation, a British-American cruise operator, and China State Shipbuilding Corporation , China’s state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate.with Italian shipyard Fincatieri, which “granted a technology license of the ship model platform and provides a series of technical services” to CSSC’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Corporation. Those technical services included “project management activities, supply chain management and sales of fundamental systems and components.”saidThis aerial photo shows China's first domestically built cruise ship "The Adora Magic City" on its maiden voyage in Shanghai on January 1, 2024. the Adora Magic City with automation and control systems, a valve control system, low-location lighting, a navigation system, an engine and bridge control-room console, and smart motor control units.The Adora Magic City’s chief designer, Chen Gang,CarCaijing, a Chinese media outlet focusing on technology and finance, that China currently lacks a complete cruise manufacturing supply chain, and that domestic supplies couldn’t meet the high-end design requirements for luxury vessels. He added that Europe has formed a mature cruise-ship supply chain with its own first-tier and second-tier supplier system and a standards system, which makes it difficult for Chinese domestic supplies to find a place in the current supply chain.are Fincantieri in Italy, Meyer Werft in Germany and STX Europe, with locations in Finland and France. Tourists leave the Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world, after arriving at Costa Maya Cruise Port, in the village town of Mahahual, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Feb. 6, 2024. And even if domestic supplies meet the industry standard, their price is not necessarily competitive, according to Chen, since “raw materials may have to be imported and there’s no scale effect.” Nevertheless, the Adora Magic City’s maiden voyage demonstrates China’s ambition to expand regionally and eventually join the cruise ship manufacturing industry.track record of requiring foreign investors in certain industries to form joint ventures with Chinese partners in order to access the China market. James Andrew Lewis, a technology policy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , a Washington -based think tank, in a report last November that foreign direct investment and joint ventures are a leading source of technology transfers for China.
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