Valley Emperor

"When I go back, I still have to suggest to the head office to make more large-tonnage cargo ships. Nowadays, the shipping competition is getting more and more fierce, and the freight is getting lower and lower. Small and medium-tonnage ships go on this ocean transportation, don't say If you make money, you can probably lose money.”

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"Yes, judging from this situation, freighters with a capacity of more than 5,000 tons are barely equal. If you want to make a relatively large profit, you still need a 10,000-ton freighter like Liuhexiang!"

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What they talked about is also one of the strategic development centers of Fung Shipping Company in recent years.

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Although Feng's Shipping Company has been engaged in luxury passenger ships in recent years, especially the 30,000-ton Nova has shocked everyone's attention. When it was officially operating the trial voyage for the first time last year, although it was running on a local coastal route, it was full, especially First-class tickets are in short supply.

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That's a first-class cabin that costs hundreds of Tang Yuan or even thousands of Tang Yuan at every turn. Not the top dignitaries can't afford it at all.

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But even so, the trial operations on the local coastal routes have always been full. I heard that many rich people go to take the new star for sea travel!

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People are not for travel, but for sea travel!

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After several trial operations, the Fung Shipping Company is ready to start this summer, and the Nova is officially put into global sailing operations!

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And the banner that came out was not a trip, but a trip!

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In addition to those high-end customers who have travel needs, the target customers of Nova's first round-the-world route are also some passengers who do not have travel needs themselves, but want to travel around the world.

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This is the marketing strategy launched by Feng Shipping Company after thorough market research!

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Because the new star is expensive to build and operate, the ticket price is very high. Ordinary passengers, even middle-class passengers, are expected to hesitate when they see such a high ticket price.

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However, if you turn pure travel into travel, then the nature is completely different.

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Just to go to a certain destination, most people are only willing to pay the usual fare.

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But if it is to go somewhere to play, then many people will unknowingly increase the affordability a lot.

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In response to this, Fung Shipping has appropriately adjusted the operation strategy of Nova.

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The former Nova was a luxury liner!

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Now, Nova is a luxury cruise ship, and it has added many recreational facilities on board to ensure that passengers can enjoy a variety of top services during their sea journeys.

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The emergence of the new star has made Feng Shipping Company's reputation soaring, the company's brand has also been rising day by day, and it has driven the company's low-end passenger ship business.

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But even so, in fact, most of Fung Shipping Company's business is not passenger transportation, but freight transportation!

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In those days, the rise of Feng Shipping Company relied on the word "cheap".

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And this cheapness is actually not reflected in the field of passenger transport, but in the field of freight.

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Those companies don't care if Fung Shipping's cheap shipping loses face, they only care about the cost.

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The freight costs of Feng Shipping Company have always been well controlled. They mine iron and make ships by themselves, and even the wharf does it by themselves.

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From upstream to downstream, we are all involved in order to control freight costs.

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Although this has also resulted in the numerous subsidiaries of Feng Shipping Company, which seems to be somewhat indifferent, but they have effectively reduced the shipping cost.

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Relying on cheap freight, Fung Shipping has always occupied a considerable share of the freight market.

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This also made Feng's shipping company realize that if shipping is to make money, if it wants market share, it needs to have a big ship!

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The larger the ship, the more cargo can be loaded, and the cost per ton of freight can be reduced more effectively.

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This is also the direct reason that directly promoted Feng Shipping Company to start the plan of 10,000-ton freighter a few years ago.

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So far, Fung Shipping has put into operation nine bulk carriers of more than 10,000 tons, and many more are under construction.

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They are even planning to build large bulk carriers of more than 20,000 tons.

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Don't look at the huge amount of 20,000 tons, but in fact the technical difficulty is not high.

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Because freighters don't pursue speed or anything, they just want a lot of cargo.

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Therefore, if the power performance requirements are very small, even if it is a freighter with a capacity of 20,000 tons, its power is only a few thousand horsepower at most, which is not comparable to a passenger ship with a few thousand tons.

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The hull requirements are also simple, and it does not require as many decorations as the large-tonnage luxury passenger ships.

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Therefore, the overall technology is simple and the cost is low.

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Otherwise, Feng Shipping Company would not have commissioned nine 10,000-ton freighters in just a few years, and many are under construction, and now they plan to build more than 20,000-ton freighters.

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The development strategy of Feng Shipping Company can also be regarded as a microcosm of the global economic development of the empire.

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That is, the transportation cost is further reduced, and the cost of maritime trade is further reduced. In order to maintain profits, shipping companies have to pursue larger tonnage freighters, reduce unit costs with more transportation volume, and increase overall profits.

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It's not just the Feng Shipping Company that did this, but the Yangtze River Shipping Company and other major shipping companies in the Tang Empire saw this situation.

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Nowadays, the newly built ocean-going freighters are basically all freighters of more than 10,000 tons. As for freighters with only a few thousand tons, it is estimated that they will only be able to run local coastal routes in the future.

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However, it is also said that the local coastal routes are actually the bulk of the imperial shipping industry!

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Ocean shipping sounds great, but it does not occupy a major share of the empire's shipping market.

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The mainland coastal routes of the Empire actually have a very large range. If it is really speaking, it should be the Western Pacific route more strictly.

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The coasts of the East Asian mainland of the empire, the East China Sea Province, the coasts of the Nanyang Peninsula, the Nanyang Islands, and Australia, these places are all local coastal areas.

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Therefore, the local coastal routes of the Tang population are not just such a small section of the coast of the East Asian continent, but actually include various routes in the entire western Pacific waters.

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And this area is the main market for the imperial shipping industry!

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When Liuhexiang was loaded with high-quality wheat and was about to return to the mainland, Miao Mingkun also successfully escorted a large piece of mining equipment to the coal mining area of ​​South China Mining Company in Wuhu Province.

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In fact, this coal mine is not far from West Lake City. It was also developed on a small scale when I was in the American Mining Company, because this coal mine is a rare open-pit coal mine, and the quality of the coal mine is quite good.

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It's just that in the past, the American Mining Company could only hire immigrants to mine at a high price, and the cost was huge, so let alone making money, it was losing money year by year.

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But now that the policy has changed, everything will be different. Both the cost and the output will undergo earth-shaking changes.