Is the Suez Canal profitable? Anyone who has this question, please remove this word and replace it with an affirmative tone. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Connecting the throat of Europe and Asia, saving tens of thousands of nautical miles, a miracle in the history of world transportation...... Under such an aura, it is difficult for this canal to make money.

It should be said that since the opening of the canal, all merchant ships of suitable tonnage will choose to transit through here, even if the toll fee is very high, but compared with the whole African continent, this price is still very fair.

Moreover, the Suez Canal Authority has also been a well-known company in the global business community in history, and the entire canal has received some impact except for the war period, and all the remaining years have been in crazy profits.

Xiao Letian remembers very well that in the previous life, the control of the canal was in the hands of the British and the French, and the French were the first shareholders at first, but after the careful conspiracy of the British, they slowly plundered the shares in the hands of the Egyptian government, and in the 20th century, the majority shareholder of the canal company became British.

Instead, the Egyptian government has become a third party with shares, and the number is only slightly larger than that of retail investors.

Since then, the Canal Company has become a joint Anglo-French operation, operating entirely on the model of a Western joint-stock company.

It is difficult to find out how much money the Canal Company made, but history can make a circumstantial evidence that when the canal was really lost, Britain and France even did not hesitate to provoke wars to maintain their colonial rule.

After the end of World War II, the nationalist revival movement intensified, and Egypt, as a British colony, became more and more powerful in its civil independence and liberation.

At this time, it was the Egyptian lion Nasser, who in 1956 ordered armed workers to forcibly take over the canal management company, and in 1956 the canal was nationalized under the jaw-dropping gaze of British and French officials.

Just three months later, Britain and France instigated Israel to invade Egypt, and the Second Middle East War broke out.

Only three days after the start of the war in Israel, the British and French forces began to carry out air raids on Egypt, and concentrated more than 160,000 regular troops, more than 100 warships, and more than 2,000 planes to cooperate with Israel in besieging Egypt.

At that time, a huge urban street battle broke out in Port Said after World War II, and the British and French forces were strongly resisted by the Egyptian military and civilians, and countless civilians turned into sniper squads to resist the British and French invasion in the street fighting, and even twelve or thirteen-year-old children took up arms to join the war during the war.

The war ended with Egypt's victory under the mediation of the United States and the Soviet Union, and Britain and France finally realized that the world after World War II was no longer their world.

An attempt to restore the pre-World War II international status is wishful thinking.

For the sake of a canal, Britain and France dared to start a war just after the end of World War II when their national strength was recovering, not only because the strategic location of the canal was important, but also because money was also very important.

As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents, how can a chicken like the canal that can always lay golden eggs be willing to throw it away.

And 1869 was just when the canal was opened, and at this moment the joint Anglo-French canal management company had not yet been established, and the entire canal was decided by the French.

Why did Ferdinand do everything he could to support Counselor Raku to succeed him after his retirement? Not only because of personal feelings, but more importantly, because the financial resources of this canal must be controlled by his apprentices.

Not to mention the ugly means of making false accounts, with the influence of the minister and the counselor, how many industries have been privately invested around the canal?

How many bag companies were there under the Canal Company, and how many businesses were outsourced? catering, lodging, ship repair, coal, ordnance repair...... Including land annexation on both sides of the riverbank, it is a source of revenue.

In order not to let the British and the Egyptian government share too much dividends, the French outsourced many of the operations that the canal company could have operated, layer after layer, and eventually the profits of these outsourcing companies became a small treasury in the hands of the French.

Viscount Ferdinand and Counsellor Raku probably didn't know how many of these secret coffers they controlled, and perhaps only their financial advisors could tell.

But the two knew that in just half a year, the amount of money that could be mobilized in their small treasury had reached more than five million gold francs, so that after a few years of careful management, the amount of funds they could control in the small treasury would reach at least 15 million gold francs a year.

This is Laku's confidence, at the most unsuccessful moment of the negotiation, he can only take money for his career.

Of course, the more than 10 million funds cannot be swallowed by Ferdinand alone, and these funds are actually shared by a huge circle of aristocrats in France.

Ferdinand's annual share of six or seven hundred thousand is over, and Raku's annual maximum is about two hundred thousand gold francs. Although the money does not belong to the two of them, the management is indeed in the hands of the two of them.

Isn't it 7 million? As long as we can get through this crisis, we can make up for it in just half a year.

And Lacu is still full of self-confidence in France, he is very sure that the money is only temporarily stored in the hands of the Chinese, and when the French emperor frees up his hands, he will definitely be able to defeat this arrogant Xiao Lotian.

At that time, the war reparations will be a hundredfold and a thousandfold, and they will have to spit out the interest on this little money!

Laku and Xiang Ying discussed the details of the reparations like merchants who had broken between catties and two, and finally they came up with a plan, seven million gold francs, of which four million were to be paid in cash, and the remaining three million were to be issued by the Canal Company.

But the money was not available now, and the two men first wrote a contract with simple terms that required the delivery of four million in cash when the combined Chinese and British fleets left Port Said.

When the Combined Fleet arrives in London, it will pay the next three million in cash, regardless of whether it is an IOU or cash.

The two foxes have their own plans, Raku is afraid that Xiang Ying will not leave if he takes the money, and Xiang Ying does not want to leave after taking the money, and he will never give up without getting an apology statement.

The sky was getting darker and darker, the stars began to shine brightly in the sky, and the night of Port Said finally arrived, and at the very moment when the two sides signed the provisional reparations agreement, suddenly there was a noisy noise outside the consulate.

"What's going on, why is it noisy......" Raku said in an airy voice.

"Report to the Counsellor, those retinues of the Chinese general have gone mad! They are going to break into the consulate's palace, and as soon as our men stop it, they will ...... with their fists."

"It's a mess now!"

"Bastard, what's going on, why are you fighting, don't you know these people are guests?"

"Lord Counselor, it wasn't us who did it first, it was these Chinese who did it first, and they all went crazy!"

Note: I have read some information by chance before, it seems that the Suez Canal charges at least about 40,000 US dollars per 10,000 tons, and the annual income of the Suez Canal should be about 5 billion to 6 billion US dollars.

This information may not be accurate, but it is more or less the same.