The railway company suggested that it would be best if the container could be hoisted directly onto the train flatbed.
However, this involves not only shipping companies and railways, but also the shipbuilding industry and even the entire transportation system.
So this matter soon came to the attention of the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and other departments, and was finally submitted to the imperial court!
After the Holy Emperor Li Xuan saw this report, he was not too surprised. Instead, he sighed. With the development of science and technology, many things appeared naturally on their own without having to push them.
The standard container submitted by multiple departments is the same concept as the container of later generations, both to improve transportation efficiency.
Although the transportation industry in Datang, especially the railway transportation industry, had begun to use container transportation in the early years, there was a lack of a unified standard.
Now, the transportation industry has realized the importance of unified container standards in cargo transportation. This is why the unification of container standards has been officially proposed.
Naturally, Li Xuan would not veto such a matter, and quickly approved the container standardization measures.
Although this measure has just been approved and has not even had time to be promoted, it is estimated that it will not be long before unified standard cargo containers can be seen on Datang's railways, horse-drawn carriages, cars, and ships.
Today, on the Red Sea-Egypt Railway, they have already adopted unified standard containers in advance to speed up the efficiency of transit transportation.
This time, large-scale wars spread across Asia and Europe, and the outbreak of large-scale wars in many regions also posed certain challenges to the Datang transportation industry represented by Datang Arms Trading Company.
Every day, a large amount of supplies need to be distributed overseas, which adds up to a huge number.
These supplies need to be transported by trains and ships.
Although there are many ships in Datang, in fact most of the ships are inland river and offshore ships, running local offshore, inland river routes, or inland river and offshore routes in America and other places.
The proportion of real ocean-going freighters is still relatively small, and most of these ocean-going freighters used to carry out routes between the mainland and the Americas.
As for other places, although there are ocean freighters going there, the overall proportion is relatively small.
Today, the maritime connection between the mainland and the Americas is the closest.
More than half of the empire's ocean-going luxury liners and large ocean-going freighters run the mainland-America route.
Now that Europe, West Asia and other regions have so much additional demand for transportation capacity, it has also put considerable pressure on the empire's ocean transportation system.
However, even so, the major shipping companies within the empire have not said that they will rashly expand production on a large scale!
This shipbuilding process takes time, and the construction cycle of ocean-going cargo ships is very long. Maybe after the ship is built, the war will be over.
Secondly, they also know that the three major arms companies and some other foreign trade manufacturers of military products have no plans to expand production on a large scale, but have plans to do long-term business.
Therefore, despite the current tight capacity, major shipping companies have tacitly agreed to increase short-term shipping capacity through other methods, and at the same time appropriately ordered some ocean-going freighters to meet the expected long-term growth, but they have not foolishly taken the next step directly.
Bulk orders.
After all, these burst orders are not long-lasting and will disappear in a year and a half. The transportation industry, especially the ocean transportation industry with large investment, still needs to formulate corresponding expansion plans based on the empire's own economic development.
Especially the economic development between the empire and the Americas is the core index that affects the ocean shipping industry.
The current Americas have long been the empire's largest overseas immigrant destination. The population of North America alone has exceeded 15 million, and it is still increasing rapidly.
After reaching a transfer agreement for Spanish America with Spain at the beginning of this year, all of North and South America already belong to the imperial territory.
To this end, the empire has already established the Central American Affairs Office and the South American Affairs Office, which took over the American territories transferred by Spain and Portugal respectively, and launched preliminary small-scale immigration.
These places had been initially developed by the Spanish and Portuguese before, and the number of indigenous people was relatively small. Otherwise, the Spaniards would not have gone to great lengths to introduce free labor from Africa.
When these Spaniards left, they took away everything they could pack away, including their many free labor forces.
Nowadays, many places in the vast Central and South America are deserted.
The Immigration and Reclamation Department is gradually relaxing immigration restrictions in the above-mentioned areas. On the premise of ensuring the safety of development, construction, health and other issues, two million to three million people will be gradually immigrated to the above-mentioned areas every year.
Finally, the total population of the entire American region was raised to about 50 million to further alleviate the population pressure in the mainland.
The empire's American policy will inevitably make the connection between the Americas and the mainland closer, especially the global economic integration strategy launched in the early years, resulting in a large amount of local goods being transported to the Americas every year, and a large amount of American goods being transported.
to the mainland.
The close economic ties between the mainland and the Americas are the core indicator of the development of the ocean shipping market.
Based on the current situation, all major shipping companies can judge that the shipping market will further develop in the future, but this development process takes time.
As for the market impact in Europe and West Asia, it is basically not considered by major shipping companies.
Even if the war breaks out now, it will still be the same.
If you want the empire's shipping companies to increase their weight in markets such as West Asia and Europe or Africa, you may have to wait until the empire completely takes over these places and carries out large-scale immigration.
This has resulted in the fact that the current shipping capacity on the routes to West Asia and Europe is actually very tight. After unloading the cargo at the Suez Port, the Nanyang 2 hurriedly shipped a batch of specialty goods from West Asia and Europe and replenished the coal and fresh water.
After waiting for food, we returned to the flight in a hurry.
The Nanyang 2 first arrived in Pami Prefecture on the Indian peninsula, unloaded part of the cargo, and loaded some of the Indian specialty goods before embarking on its way home.
Among the large amounts of military supplies previously unloaded by the Nanyang 2, some of them have been transported to customers, some of them have been transported to the Ottoman Kingdom and handed over to the royal family, and some have been handed over to the Grand Pasha, and then the two parties use
The newly arrived guns and ammunition from Datang launched a new round of war.
Some of them crossed the Black Sea Strait, then followed the Danube River deep into the hinterland of Europe, and finally delivered the goods to Ottoman customers or Tatar customers.