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The railway company proposed that this kind of cargo box should preferably be hoisted directly to the train platform.

It's just that this involves not only shipping companies and railways, but also the shipbuilding industry and even the entire transportation system.

So this matter was soon noticed by the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and other departments, and finally presented to the imperial front!

After seeing this report, the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan was not too surprised. Instead, he sighed. With the development of science and technology, many things do not need to be pushed by oneself, and they appear naturally.

The standard cargo box submitted by multiple departments, which is the same concept as the later container, is to improve the transportation efficiency.

Although in the early years, Datang's transportation industry, especially the railway transportation industry, has already begun to use cargo containers, but there is no unified standard.

Now, the transportation industry has realized the importance of the unified standard of the cargo box in the transportation of goods, and this is the official proposal to unify the standard of the cargo box.

Li Xuan naturally would not veto this kind of thing, and soon approved the standardization measures for the cargo box.

Although this measure has just been approved and has not even had time to promote it, it is estimated that it will not be long before the railways, carriages, automobiles, and ships of Datang will be able to see uniform standard cargo boxes.

Today, on the Red Sea-Egypt Railway, they have adopted a unified standard cargo box in advance to speed up the efficiency of transit transportation.

This time, the outbreak of large-scale wars in Asia and Europe, and the outbreak of large-scale wars in many regions, also poses a certain challenge to the Datang transportation industry represented by Datang Arms Trading Company.

Every day, a large amount of materials need to be distributed overseas, which is an incomparably huge number cumulatively.

And these materials need to be transported by trains and ships.

Although there are many ships in Datang, most of the ships are inland and offshore ships, and they run on local offshore, inland water routes, or inland water and offshore routes in the Americas 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.

In other places, although there are ocean-going freighters, the overall proportion is relatively small.

Today, the sea 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 are on the mainland-American route.

Now Europe, West Asia and other regions have so much more demand for transportation capacity, which has also formed a lot of pressure on the empire's ocean transportation system.

However, even so, the major shipping companies within the empire did not say that they would rashly expand production on a large scale!

It takes time to build a ship. The construction cycle of an ocean-going freighter 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 do not have plans to expand production on a large scale, but instead plan to do long-term business.

Therefore, despite the current shortage of shipping capacity, the major shipping companies have tacitly adopted some other methods to increase short-term capacity, and at the same time appropriately order some ocean-going freighters to meet the expected long-term growth, but there is no stupid direct next Bulk order.

After all, these burst orders are not durable, and they will be gone in a year or a half. The transportation industry, especially the ocean shipping industry with large investment, still has to formulate corresponding expansion plans according to the economic development of the empire itself.

Especially the economic development between the empire itself and the Americas, this is the core index that affects the ocean shipping industry.

At present, the Americas region has long been the largest overseas immigration destination of the Empire. The population of North America alone has exceeded 15 million, and it is still growing rapidly.

After the Spanish-American transfer agreement was reached with Spain at the beginning of this year, the entire North and South Americas are already imperial territories.

For this reason, the Empire has already established the Central American Affairs Yamen and the South American Affairs Yamen, respectively taking over the American territories handed over by Spain and Portugal, and started small-scale immigration.

These places have been initially developed by the Spaniards and Portuguese before, and the number of indigenous people is small, otherwise the Spaniards would not bother to introduce free labor from Africa.

When these Spaniards left, they took away everything that could be packed and taken away, including many of their free labor.

Today, the vast Central America and many places in South America are empty.

The Immigration and Reclamation Division is gradually loosening the immigration restrictions in the above-mentioned areas. On the premise of ensuring the safety of development and construction, health and other issues, it will gradually immigrate two to three million people to the above-mentioned areas every year.

Finally, the total population of the entire Americas region was increased to about 50 million to further ease the population pressure in the mainland.

The Empire's Americas policy will inevitably lead to closer ties between the Americas and the mainland, especially the global economic integration strategy launched in the early years~www.wuxiaspot.com~ has resulted in a large number of local goods being transported to the Americas every year. There is also a large amount of American goods shipped to the mainland.

The close economic connection between the mainland and the Americas is the core indicator of the development of the ocean shipping market.

According to the current situation, major shipping companies can judge that the shipping market will develop further in the future, but this development process will take time.

As for the market impact in Europe and West Asia, they are basically not taken into account by major shipping companies.

Even if the war breaks out now, this is still the case.

If the shipping companies of the empire want to increase their weight in markets such as West Asia and Europe or Africa, I am afraid that they will have to wait until the empire has completely occupied these places and carried out large-scale immigration.

As a result, the current West Asia and Europe routes are actually very tight. After the Nanyang No. 2 unloaded at the port of Suez, after hurriedly shipping a batch of special goods from West Asia and Europe, it was supplemented with coal, fresh water, Food and so on is a hurried return flight.

Nanyang No. 2 first arrived in Bermu State on the Indian peninsula, unloaded part of the cargo, and loaded part of the Indian specialty goods, and then set foot on the way home.

Among the large amount of military supplies unloaded by Nanyang No. 2 before, some of them have been transported to customers, some of them were transported to the Ottoman Kingdom and handed over to the royal family, and some were handed over to the Great Pasha, and then the two sides used The newly arrived Datang guns and ammunition launched a new round of war.

Some of them crossed the Black Sea Strait, and then went deep into the hinterland of Europe along the Danube River, and finally sent the goods to Ottoman customers or Tatar customers.