Shipbuilding Materials 造船材料

Raw materials for ships are an important element in shipbuilding, as wooden ships cannot be made without raw materials. The first step in building a wooden boat is choosing the wood. However, due to rising temperatures, precious trees such as camphor trees cannot adapt to the climate and are difficult to grow, or extreme weather such as storms has damaged these rare woods. This leads to an increase in the cost of raw wood, which is increasingly expensive. Therefore, shipbuilders can only switch to other woods when selecting raw materials. For example: Macao’s shipbuilding industry relies heavily on local fishermen to order ships. In the past, camphor wood was used as wood because it is extremely hard. However, due to the impact of climate change, the wood is difficult to grow and the cost is high. Therefore, the lack of camphor wood made it difficult to find a substitute with the same function, so the members of the Associação de Auxílio Mútuo de Pescadores de Macau finally changed to use cheaper wood-Tipuana wood.

Through mutual exchanges and research.But despite this, climate changes eventually lead to the loss of authenticity of the raw materials from which wooden boats are made. Nowadays, the problem of climate change is becoming more and more serious, and the protection of rare wood is an urgent problem that human beings need to solve. Protecting wood is not only to preserve rare species, but also to inherit human shipbuilding culture.

船舶的原材料是造船業裡一個重要元素，因為沒有原材料木船就無法製成。製造木船的第一步是選擇木材。但是由於氣溫升高，珍貴的樹木如樟樹等無法適應氣候而難以種植，或者是暴風雨等極端天氣導致這些珍稀木材受到破壞。從而導致原木材成本升高，並逐變得昂貴。所以造船師傅在原材料選材的時候只能轉用其他木材。例如:澳門的造船業十分依賴本地漁民訂購船隻,而過往的木材則選用樟木,因為該木堅硬無比。但因氣候變化的影響導致該木難以種植且成本高昂，所以漁民互助會的成員通過相互的交流和研究後,最終改成使用更便宜的木材-杉木。

但儘管如此,天氣變化最終導致木船的製造原料的真實性喪失。如今氣候變化問題越來越嚴重，保護珍稀的木材是目前人類需要迫切解決的一個問題。保護木材不但是為了保留珍稀物種，更是為了傳承人類的造船文化。