.During the end of August, Donghai Province and Fan's Investment Group shit, "The investment project of Hengshan Port was finally approved by the State Council. The Hengshan Deepwater Port construction project, which is known as a 10 billion project, finally officially kicked off.

Fan's Investment Group invested 10 billion yuan. It occupied 80% of the port shares, and the Donghai Provincial Government occupied 20% of the shares. The entire investment has been in place. It is organizing an engineering team to settle in Hengshan Port and start the work of light seabed silt first.

Although the overall blueprint for construction has not been made yet, the seabed silt offshore must be cleared first, and this work will not wait for anyone. Therefore, Fan quickly invested in twenty submarine dredging construction machinery, and started the early construction of Hengshan Port in line with one stone.

After Fan's large-scale investment in the construction of deep-water ports in China and obtained 80% of the shares and became the major shareholder of Hengshan Port, this matter immediately attracted great attention at home and abroad. Especially when private capital and foreign capital can both participate in port construction and exceed 50% of the shares, foreign capital is of great interest.

However, domestic experts and scholars also have some differences in understanding regarding the decision that foreign capital can control the domestic port industry, some agree and some oppose it.

In fact, the domestic port construction also contains a lot of foreign investment. However, from the perspective of investment layout, the domestic foreign investment ports are currently mainly distributed south of the Yangtze River, especially concentrated in the Pearl River Delta Prefecture area. Northern ports are slightly inferior in both the scale and scope of investment.

According to Fan Wubing's observation, this is mainly because the northern region is slightly inferior to the south in terms of market economy and the business thinking of the competent authorities. Foreign investors are also very concerned about this. However, in recent years, the throughput of northern ports has increased rapidly, so the foreign investment in turf battle will gradually move north without any suspense.

The injection of foreign capital has a positive role in promoting the development of the domestic port industry. This is easy to understand. The injection of foreign capital not only solves the problem of insufficient funds in port construction to a certain extent, but also brings advanced container terminal management concepts, methods and management technologies to domestic ports, improves the service quality of my country's ports, effectively improves the operating efficiency of the terminal, and enhances the international competitiveness of the ports.

The country has little experience in the management of large ports and does not have much understanding of the external environment. The port industry is a global logistics industry. The injection of foreign capital can quickly improve the operation and management and technical level of China's container terminals to a relatively advanced level, shorten the gap with other advanced ports in the world, so that the advanced facilities of some of the container terminals operated by my country's joint ventures will soon approach or reach the level of the world's advanced ports. At the same time, this move will attract more Chinese and foreign shipping companies to affiliate, thereby better serving my country's foreign trade transportation.

The second is the injection of foreign capital, which also provides certain guarantees for domestic port enterprises to attract, stabilize the supply of goods and routes, and improve the port logistics system.

With the development of the domestic port industry, strong multinational shipping companies have poured into China and flocked to China's ports. The main purpose of China's container terminal joint venture has shifted from simply solving construction funds and introducing advanced technologies to attracting foreign investment from a new height, the port future development strategy, and port companies are mainly considering the need to expand the brand effect and build logistics chains.

Introducing foreign capital will lead to the reputation of these foreign companies and their integrity in the shipping industry, which plays a very important role in attracting and stabilizing the supply of goods. Internationally renowned large shipping companies or alliances have global shipping and agency networks, which can effectively undertake the entire logistics of multinational companies.

Therefore, being able to achieve asset marriage with large international shipping companies and building a port logistics chain is of great significance to stabilizing and increasing routes and container sources, and maintaining and enhancing the comprehensive competitiveness of the port.

Of course, the negative impact here cannot be ignored.

Some experts who oppose the decision to relax the conditions for foreign capital to take control into the port industry said that multinational shipping companies investing in domestic terminals will make it more difficult for domestic shipping companies to carry out branch transportation, and domestic trade container transportation and terminal business will increase.

The layout and construction of domestic branch lines and domestic trade container terminals are usually carried out according to the scale and needs of regional economic exhibitions and coordinated with other modes of transportation. Multinational shipping companies choose to invest in container terminals according to their interests, which affects the requirements of domestic economic exhibitions for the layout of branch lines and domestic trade container terminals. It affects domestic branch lines and domestic trade transportation.

A very important point is that domestic shipping companies are still in the initial stage of terminal operation. As a scarce resource, once the terminal is controlled by multinational shipping companies, it will be difficult to redistribute. As a large number of domestic hub ports are occupied by multinational shipping companies, domestic shipping companies will be restricted from the development space for port investment and operation.

Secondly, multinational shipping companies always select locations and layouts for investment in ports according to their own interests, which will disrupt the overall size and arrangement of domestic container terminals and have an adverse impact on the overall strategic implementation of domestic ports.

It can be imagined that multinational shipping companies obviously will not have any interest in those small ports. Relying on their financial advantages, they mostly invest in domestic hub ports. Especially after the government is about to lift the shareholding ratio restrictions on foreign capital investment in ports, multinational shipping companies will take advantage of their control over these hub ports to increase terminal usage fees, operating fees and other expenses, increase transportation costs of other affiliated shipping companies, etc., to intensify vicious competition between container terminals.

Therefore, everyone can see that introducing foreign investment to build a port is actually a double-edged sword, and the best use is all about operation.

In fact, the leaders of Donghai Province are under great psychological pressure. After all, Hengshan Port is the first large deep-water port in China that does not have a government-owned position in the controlling position. If it is done well, this is a very important political achievement. If it is screwed up, it may be that Wu Fukuan and others will be greatly affected.

However, Wu Fukuan has a relatively firm position on this issue. On the one hand, he is confident in the good reputation of Fan's Investment Group. At the same time, this time he completely turned to Fan Heng and Fan Wubing's father and son. Since he has chosen his own camp, he will cooperate with Fan Wubing to make the overall layout without hesitation.

Especially the State Planning Commission and the latest guidance catalog for foreign investment industries issued by the State Economic and Trade Commission have decided to cancel the Chinese holding requirements for shared ports. The introduction of this policy will encourage

, the domestic port shipping industry has played a role in promoting the capital bottlenecks in port construction.

Wu Fukuan has carefully studied this policy. It can be foreseen that after the lifting of the controlling rights restrictions, the domestic port and terminal industry will usher in a new round of foreign investment. In the next three to five years, foreign investment targets will still choose major coastal hub ports. The investment focus will still be on container business with relatively high yields. In addition, some ports in the west and large specialized terminals such as coal, crude oil, and ore will also be favored by foreign investors.

However, for the sake of risk diversification, foreign investors will still participate in the construction of terminals with existing domestic port enterprises. This does not mean that the other party has a bad appetite, but that they really have doubts about some domestic policies. Another point is that if state-owned enterprises participate, they can often leverage government forces when dealing with disputes and conflicts with the local government.

For example, if the mainland employees you hire are meaningful in terms of salary, simple foreign-funded enterprises may have to operate according to the legal framework, but joint ventures are often Chinese managers who bring the government to the name of the government, and the problem can be solved by suppressing them.

In fact, avoiding the opening of Fan's investment group in the mountains and floods, since mid-year, a new round of foreign investment in the construction of terminals has begun to emerge. For example, Yantian Port Group and Hutchison Whampoa jointly built the third phase of Yantian Port project, China Merchants International and Tianjin Port Bureau signed a letter of intent for the second phase of Tianjin Port exhibition, Hutchison Whampoa and Ningbo Port Bureau signed an agreement to jointly operate the new container terminal of Beilun Port, Singapore Port Group and Guangzhou Port Bureau jointly established a Guangzhou container terminal company, etc.

In addition, ZAWA, Maersk Shipping and World Terminal Company have expressed their intention to cooperate in building the Shanghai International Shipping Center to the government.

It can be seen that the strategy adopted by foreign investors is to cooperate with mainland port enterprises before the policy is introduced to occupy the market, and to obtain the operating controlling rights of the joint venture port through capital increase and share expansion.

When Wu Fukuan and Fan Wubing came to inspect the construction of Hengshan Port, they saw many barges parked on the sea. Through thick pipes, large excavation and silting machinery that had sunk dozens of meters under the sea transported the cleared seabed silt, and the barge transported them to a nearby open space for treatment.

The scene after twenty large dredging machinery was started at the same time was still spectacular. Of course, the energy consumed was also the same as today's literature. Fortunately, Fan Wubing's subordinates have used the most advanced solar power system developed by the company to form a medium-sized motor unit. As long as it is during the day, the sunshine conditions are relatively good, it can basically meet the electricity needs of all large machinery."

At night, the energy storage equipment provides power supply for several hours, and then it is powered through the local power grid. Because it is more powered by the power grid late at night, it will not put too much pressure on the local daily electricity use, which is a great improvement.

"The comprehensive strength of Fan's family is far above our estimate." Wu Fukuan couldn't help but sigh at it when he saw the scene in front of him.

"Oh, there's nothing special," Fan Wubing shrugged, "When you have sufficient funds for the exhibition, you can develop better with a little vision and a little vision. The reason why our Fan family has developed faster is that we are more interested in all advanced things."

"Mr. Deng said that science and technology are the primary productive forces," Wu Fukuan replied with a smile, "But according to Mr. Fan, it seems that curiosity is the driving force of all advanced technologies."

"This is right." Fan Wubing also said with a smile, "Although sometimes curiosity can kill cats, more often curiosity can make cats evolve into tigers. In the past ten years of exhibition, Fan has caught up with many good opportunities, and has not wasted these good opportunities. Over time, he finally has the scale of today."

"I believe that the cooperation between Donghai Province and Fan's family will make the world admire him, and Hengshan Port will also become the most important hub port in the entire Yayuan." Wu Fukuan nodded in agreement.

"I care very much about this, especially when I sneer at the joke of building Asia's largest port. As long as we show it here, most shipping companies prefer to come to Hengshan Port rather than Busan Port. After all, we have the advantages of being a good place here." Fan Wubing said.

"Did you think about those muds and have you deal with them?" Wu Fukuan looked at the mountains of undersea mud next to him and asked Fan Wubing.

As the seabed dredging work continues to unfold, the silt here will accumulate more and more. Wu Fukuan thought that there seemed to be no place to pile up nearby. Moreover, such a large amount of silt is piled up together. It is indeed a hindrance, but he didn't know what Fan Wubing would do, so he asked more questions.

"Haha, we plan to sell this thing." Fan Wubing replied.

"Sell it?" Wu Fukuan immediately said in surprise. "Someone will buy this kind of thing?"

Fan Wubing smiled and explained, "The silt under the sea is a magical natural biological soil. According to legend, the magic of the silt under the sea of ​​Dead Sea and uses it for skin-healing and beauty purposes is the beautiful Cleopatra. Her secret to beauty is to soak in the mineral hot spring water of the Dead Sea. Let the minerals in the hot spring water fully nourish the moisturizing skin, and apply the silt throughout the body to enhance the delicateness and softness of the skin. We also plan to process these silts and put them into small bottles for sale. It is estimated that the market reaction will be very good. For this reason, we probably need to set up a cosmetics company."

The silt in the seabed contains a large amount of minerals, trace elements, etc. These substances have accumulated on the seabed for hundreds of years, and the seabed mud has the effect of promoting blood circulation and thorough cleaning. The mineral essence is especially suitable for dry, sensitive and damaged skin.

In fact, deep-sea sea mud is mostly made into facial masks by some cosmetic brands, and the color looks green. Some sea mud followers believe that its moisturizing and whitening effect is very significant.
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