Chapter 62: Consolation

Song Yuqing turned on the TV, Kanem State Television was broadcasting President Habry's speech, Habri expressed regret that the ban bill passed the federal parliament for consideration, but he will respect the decision of the majority of federal parliamentarians and sign the bill so that it can be officially implemented at 0:00 today......

Yang Deshan and Xie Sipeng's faces were a little pale, in order to protect domestic production enterprises and promote domestic cement investment and production, Kanem greatly increased tariffs, they could all understand, but they didn't expect Kanem to directly ban cement imports, and their hands and feet were cold for a while, as if they were poured from the head by a basin of ice water, and the corners of their mouths trembled but they didn't know what to say!

Little Tubman saw their abnormality and asked curiously, "Mr. Xie, Mr. Yang, what's wrong? Why do you suddenly look so bad, does this bill have anything to do with you?"

"We bought 30,000 tons of cement from China, and we have already loaded it from China, and we will arrive at Draculamo ......Port in three or four days," Xie Sipeng said calmly

He knew very well in his heart that it was completely pointless to hide it at this time.

Even if there may be some people here gloating, after all, only by speaking out can we find a possibility of turning the corner - little Tubman and Abacha may be able to help a little.

"Ah, why didn't you say it earlier, if you knew about it, I would have reminded you," Cao Mo didn't forget to insert two more knives in their chests, and said with a look of "pity" and "chagrin" for them, "What should I do now, there are still three or four days to go to Draculamo Port, do you buy bulk cement from China, or bagged cement?" Of course, there is no need to be too anxious, although the bill has passed and taken effect, it is difficult to say whether Draculamo Port will be strictly enforced, maybe dredge up the relationship and let it in......"

Cao Mo was secretly happy in his heart, there was such a big force behind the Kanem country to promote the passage of this bill, thinking of blocking the cement import channels in all aspects, how could it be easy for people to get into the loophole in Draculamo Port, which accounts for more than 80% of the national cement import and unloading volume in Kanem?

Everyone else looked at each other, even if they had the intention of gloating, but as long as everyone was still friends on the surface, they tried to pretend to be concerned and comforted.

"Kanem's mouth is sealed, but Benin and Liberia can also import cement, and you can transfer cement to these countries to ......sell it," Tubman Jr. kindly suggested.

Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan were all worried.

Cao Mo, who has carefully studied the Kanem cement market and policies during this time, certainly knows where their pain points are.

Whether it is bulk cement or bagged cement, Xie Sipeng and they can't wait for the goods to arrive at Dracula Mo before looking for a buyer.

They must have found a buyer in Draculamo long before this batch of cement was loaded from China to sea, and even signed the contract a long time ago, and even took away the deposit.

Only in this way, the ship arrives at the port and is directly unloaded and handed over, and the transportation and storage are taken over by the buyer's professional team, and Xie Sipeng is the most convenient for them to make money.

Since this buyer runs a cement business in Kanem, it is impossible not to pay attention to the changes in relevant policies, but the other party did not remind Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan at all, didn't he just want to pit them?

However, the relevant bill was not suddenly launched in Kanem, and it was difficult for Xie Sipeng to use a force majeure clause to rescind the contract.

Now that cement cannot enter the port, they have to terminate the contract with the buyer, how can there be less compensation?

In addition to this contract dispute, it seems that the 30,000 tons of cement can be shipped to neighboring countries to find buyers.

However, neither Benin nor Liberia have large-scale crude oil exports, and their industrial bases are as weak as those of Kanem.

These countries do not have large foreign exchange earnings, and their purchasing power for international commodities is far weaker than that of Kanem, and at the same time, the scale of municipal construction initiated in China is far less than that of Kanem.

In fact, the price of cement in Kanem is unusually high, while in neighboring countries it is much lower.

As a commodity with a short sales radius, the transportation cost is extremely high, and the reason why some people go to the ocean to import cement to Kanem is that the terrible price difference covers the high transportation cost.

That is to say, this batch of cement can only make a lot of money when it is transported into Kanem from China, and it may not be able to earn back the normal transportation costs when it is transported to Kanem's surrounding countries for sale.

Another point is that Xie Sipeng and his team are now immediately going to nearby Benin, Liberia and other countries to find buyers, and a complete set of procedures may be delayed for more than a month.

After a delay of more than a month, the chartering company will not think that it is their responsibility, and they need Sipeng and Yang Deshan to pay additional detention fees, and this is not a small amount.

Cao Mo couldn't help but secretly calculate, how much they would lose in this transaction, Xie Sipeng, and Yang Deshan before they could get out.

Xie Sipeng could more or less feel Cao Mo's concern and secretly gloating.

He is not a junior brother who has just mixed the rivers and lakes, where can he believe that people's hearts are good so easily?

However, he still honestly introduced the situation of their cement ship: "30,000 tons of bulk carriers, no self-loading and unloading devices......"

"This seems to be more troublesome!" Cao Mo said with a smack of his lips.

In the international cement trade, the bagged cement is transported in containers, and the loading and unloading costs of the shipping and the entry and exit of the port are relatively high, which is relatively rare in the international cement trade and transportation.

Bulk shipping and loading and unloading costs in and out of ports are low, but if there is no self-loading device, you need to dock at a port with loading and unloading equipment.

Now Xie Sipeng and his team have to find a suitable port for unloading and a suitable buyer on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, which is even more difficult.

Cao Mo didn't know what pheasant shipowner Xie Sipeng and they found to transport the goods, but they didn't even have a self-unloading device.

Little Tubman, Abacha and Xie Sipeng's other two friends can only say two comforting words like Cao Mo, and they can't help.

The game was naturally not in the mood to continue, and after settling the chips, Cao Mo won another $6,000 that night. Knowing that Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan still had to discuss countermeasures, he did not rush to Ibogu with the impatient Abacha at the Lana Dere Hotel, but drove back to the dormitory with Song Yuqing and Wang Wen first.

With diesel generators for power, life in the dormitory is much more nourishing. It's not too early at this point, Wang Wen went back to the room to sleep first, and Song Yuqing asked Cao Mo very strangely:

"How did you know that Yang Deshan and they bought cement from China and shipped it to Kanem?"

"Sister Yuqing, you're not stupid. Cao Mo was lying on Song Yuqing's bed with a grin, blowing the air conditioner.

"I saw the content of the mobile phone text message that Abacha showed you, you already knew that the bill had been passed, and after the game, you also called me to turn on the TV to watch the news of Kanem National TV, and the fool couldn't guess that you deliberately showed it to Xie Sipeng and Yang Deshan!" Song Yuqing glanced at Cao Mo, "They will lose a lot of money this time, right?"

"Who knows? Xie Sipeng has traveled extensively in Draculamo, and has contacts with both black and white, nine streams and three religions, so maybe he will be asked to dredge up the relationship, or think of some other way to bring cement in? You don't know how chaotic Kanem's bureaucracy is?"

"Will they transport cement into Kanem through smuggling channels?" Song Yuqing asked curiously.

Cao Mo considered Yan Zhicheng's background in Draculamo's black-and-white all-you-can-eat, and Xie Sipeng was likely to find a relationship through Yan Zhicheng to see if it was possible to bypass Kanem Customs and transport cement in.

Especially after tonight, the price of cement in Kanem is destined to skyrocket again, and it is just profit-driven, and they may rack their brains to find a way to smuggle cement into Kanem.

However, he spread his hands with Song Yuqing, saying that this matter had nothing to do with him.

His headache now is that after the price of cement in Kanem skyrockets directly tomorrow, he has hoarded nearly 8,000 tons of cement clinker in the early stage, and what price should be converted to the cement plant.

Nearly 8,000 tons of cement clinker seems to be a lot, but the density of cement clinker is more than three times higher than that of water, and the warehouse of more than 800 square meters is barely filled, and Cao Mo spent a total of more than 400,000 US dollars before and after, which is worth the price of domestic finished cement.

Although he also has a major interest in the cement plant, and the Abacha and Felician families only account for a small part, Cao Mo secretly decided to convert the cement clinker to the cement factory tomorrow according to the actual market.

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The next day, when Cao Mo was still asleep, Abacha's phone call came in, shouting to tell him that in the Dracula Building Materials Market this morning, ordinary cement had soared to $260 a ton, urging Cao Mo to hurry back to Ibogu and directly put the batch of clinker he had hoarded into the ball mill for grinding.

The production equipment for the front process such as crushing and calcination has not yet been built, but it is the process of cement raw meal cooking, as long as there is clinker, the second half of grinding and filling borrow the existing warehouse in the mining area, and the equipment can be directly put into operation after installation.

This means that after equipment commissioning, 8,000 tons of cement clinker can be directly made into bagged finished cement and sent to the hungry market like dry firewood.

In the past two years, the scale of municipal construction in Draculamo City has been quite large, the construction period is limited, and the cement supply gap has been torn up so much at once, it is foreseeable that the price will continue to rise for a considerable period of time in the future.

And even if they make an extra $100 per ton of cement, the clinker will be made into finished products and sold, which will almost offset the construction costs they put into the cement plant in the early stage.

With such huge profits, it is no wonder that Abacha is so excited.

Cao Mo didn't see Yang Deshan and Guo Jian after getting up, and he didn't know if they came back last night, so he took Ade and Oulu and rushed directly to Yibogu Village, while Abacha was already waiting for the entrance of the tribe's village.

"You're too awesome!" Seeing Cao Mo coming, Abacha gave a thumbs up, praised him with his newly learned middle Chinese, and twisted his ass happily, completely ignoring the image of the municipal councilor in front of his driver and bodyguard.

"......" Cao Mo smiled, seeing that since Abacha praised him for being so ruthless, he decided that the cement clinker would be converted into the cement factory at the original price, after all, he still used the gold mine to hoard the undistributed funds of the farm.

"When will the finished cement be produced, several friends already know that the Sika family and the Felician family have invested in the cement plant, and they called early in the morning to ask when I can supply them to the construction site?" Abacha asked eagerly, "They all promised to give a good price." ”

Cao Mo said: "As soon as the ban was issued, there were still a lot of stocks in the building materials markets and large and small construction sites in Kanem, and it was not yet at a good price - the grinding and filling equipment could be put into trial production after commissioning." As long as it can be produced and someone comes to buy it, we will sell it in batches, not hoarding, pre-sale, ordering, and the price will ...... with the market of the day."

Cao Mo also doesn't know what the cement market in Kanem will look like like or what will calm down, and it will soon enter the rainy season, the reserve conditions in the mining area are too simple, and the moisture-proof foundation is very poor, and it is impossible for him to hoard finished cement, and sell as much as he can produce, which is enough for them.

Of course, at this time, we have to thank them for being too tight on funds, and several sections do not use mechanical loading and unloading, but use manual loading and unloading, so that different sections can be put into production separately and do not affect each other.

Otherwise, the entire cement plant will have to wait until two months later.

It will be put into production two months later, of course, it is not too late, but in the process of two months, watching the price of cement soar, but you can't reach in to make money, isn't this the uncomfortable feeling of seeing Song Yuqing's upper body but not doing anything that day?