When the government announced the development plan for the Eastern Galicia region, it caused quite a stir. Many people sensed business opportunities, and Hoch Seld in Constanta was one of them.
As a smuggler who made a lot of profits on the back of the government during the war, Hawke Schild is now quite famous in the shipping industry. The number of ships under his name reaches 13, with a total tonnage of about 100,000 tons.
Of course, this tonnage is not famous in the world, but coupled with the ships of his friends and partners, he has gradually become famous in the world's shipping industry. Nowadays, even the ships running in the Black Sea have not heard of his name. It's just that.
The Black Sea route is not among the world's mainstream routes, but its proportion is also increasing year by year. In the near future, when Romania's economy develops, I believe there will be more ships running the Black Sea route, and its reputation will also be great.
throughout the shipping industry.
However, Hawke Schild is currently troubled by one annoying thing, that is, after the end of the war, the shipping industry faced a sharp reduction in orders. Yes, after the war, the shipping volume of various countries did not decrease much immediately, but
A large number of transport ships belonging to the government were pushed to the market. Now, in the face of the surge in merchant ships, orders seemed to be insufficient. As a problem faced by the entire industry, Hawke was certainly not immune.
No, after seeing that all shipping companies were in trouble, Hawke immediately held a meeting to discuss everyone's way out under the current difficult situation. So at Rayford Street, where his shipping company is located, various luxury vehicles gathered
Here it is.
As the host, Hawke introduced friends and partners one by one at the door. Most of these people are famous figures in the Romanian shipping industry. Their combined energy is enough to affect Romanian shipping.
"Everyone, the main reason for bringing everyone together this time is something I believe everyone can guess. That is that the current shipping competition is too fierce and it is difficult to do business, and we must find a way out for this."
After gathering everyone together, Hawke Schild took the lead in stating the purpose of the gathering. His words immediately resonated with everyone present, and everyone immediately poured out their respective difficulties.
"Yes, business is too difficult now."
"Isn't that right? Many of my previous orders were snatched up by the British and French shipping companies that came in. Damn, when I inquired later, the price was 20% lower than mine. Isn't this a plan to do business at a loss?"
"Isn't this true? Many of my ships have been robbed by these foreign shipping companies. Now two ships are empty, and the crew members now have no livelihood."
"This is not bad for you. I wanted to take this opportunity to expand the fleet and bought three new ships. Who would have thought that my old customer, the steel factory, canceled my order and said that my freight was too high. Now the fleet
Basically everything has stopped. If there are no more orders, my crew will all be gone."
Everyone talked about their predicament. Although they were all well-dressed and had drivers driving luxury cars when they went out, there were not hundreds or even thousands of people eating with them. There were not enough orders.
Anyone who makes profits can be bankrupted.
Hawke kept listening to their complaints, and after they finished speaking, he said: "Actually, everyone's situation is similar. The only difference may be that some people have a slightly better life, and some people have a worse life. But as for me
He said that the current shipping slump will probably not be improved in the short term."
When Hawke said this, someone couldn't help but interrupt, interrupted him and asked, "Why."
When asked, Hawke took out a piece of information that he had already prepared and said: "This is the information that I paid someone to investigate. These are the current number of existing merchant ships, the annual shipping orders, and
Mainstream shipping prices.”
Everyone immediately focused on the information in his hand. After seeing everyone's thoughts, Hawke immediately took out many copies of the same information: "If you are interested, please take it and study it. This is a small favor for my friends."
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After Hawke finished speaking, his friends and partners were not polite. They all picked up the information in their hands and read it. In fact, some people entrusted others to investigate, but there was no detailed investigation by Hawke.
It includes the tonnage of ships of various shipping companies, the annual throughput of major ports, and even predicts the growth of shipping orders and the growth of merchant ships in the next few years.
From these detailed information, it can be seen that Hawke spends more money and energy than others, which can also explain why he is the leader.
After everyone had seen it clearly, Hawke said, "Everyone has seen it."
"Um"
"Um"
After receiving the response, Hawke continued: "Now that everyone has seen it, I believe that the most familiar thing among them is the shipping price."
"Yes, these foreign shipping companies are really powerful. They can actually do 0.6 lei per ton for 100 kilometers. I would have to pay to death for this price."
"The same goes for me. 0.7 lei per ton per hundred kilometers is the limit of what I can do, and this is when I don't make any money."
After listening to their speeches, Hawke continued: "Actually, our problem is mainly related to management costs. Before the war, because Romania's import and export volume was not large, and the shipping industry was very prosperous at that time, we were able to
Life in it is enjoyable. However, there are now too many merchant ships and the shipping volume has been greatly reduced. In this case, everyone needs to reduce costs. For example, maintenance costs and the number of crew members must also be maximized. In addition, in terms of preservation and office expenses
We must also do our best to reduce our costs and compete with these foreign shipping companies."
In fact, everyone knows what Hawke said, but it is really not that easy to cut down these expenses. Not to mention others, they are all people he is familiar with, and others have been busy for the company for more than ten years, so they kicked him out.
Yu Li is a bit unreasonable.
From here we can see the shortcomings of Hawke and others. Shipping companies, which are bound by family and hometown ties, face industry downturns and competition from foreign modern companies, and they are slow to adjust and face too much cost pressure. Present here
As a shipping company, I didn't just start by running ships. It's just that I couldn't care too much about it before due to reputation, but now I can't care less about it anymore.
But Hawke's words told them that now that they were facing life and death, they couldn't care less about their previous friendships, otherwise they would die together.
"So what are you going to do?"
"We all listen to you."
After hearing these two sentences, Hawke calmly said what he had thought of.
