"Mr. Albert, I heard that you want the European Commission to keep Honghu Shipping Group out of the European market?"

Pete Worthon looked at Albert at this time and asked, he didn't wait for the latter to answer, and continued: "Now that the chief designers of the Vikings project have gone to work for the Honghu Shipbuilding Group Company, I think your group company should also think carefully about what to do next, instead of dealing with a company from the rabbit country in this way." ”

A project, even the coach has been poached, what this project can become, Eder they can completely imagine, and it can also be determined that the Fincantieri Group of companies in this project is a fool project, purely from the EU side of the fraud funding.

It's no wonder that Shell would abandon European companies and turn to Rabbit's domestic shipping group for solutions.

Albert knew that his previous nonsense had been exposed, but there was no embarrassment on his face, but he looked at Eder and said angrily: "Mr. Eder, now you should know how shameless this company from the rabbit country is, right? They spent a lot of money to pry into our corners and let European engineers serve them." ”

"But this is not contrary to EU law. ”

Edel said, spreading his hands.

"This shows that the EU law is flawed, and this set of laws is completely unable to protect European interests. ”

"If you have an objection to an EU law, you can appeal to the Parliament and have the EU Parliament amend the Decree. Eder didn't want to get into trouble with Albert on this issue anymore.

“......”

Albert also knew that it was pointless for him to tell Eder about this, that legislation was a troublesome matter, and that Albert did not think he had the power to change the laws of the European Union.

"Mr. Eder, I think there is a need for the EU to take some steps to prevent the penetration of rabbit companies into Europe. ”

"Albert, free trade is the European idea, and we can't engage in trade protectionism like Eagle Sauce. And if that's the case, you'll completely lose the domestic market for rabbits, and I think you don't need to say that you know this truth. ”

"We're not doing trade protection. ”

"We're just retaliating against countries that break the rules of the market," Albert said. Over the past few years, the rabbit's domestic companies have snatched too many benefits from us through various illegal means, and I think now the EU needs to change that. ”

"We do need to make some reflection on why the technical level of the rabbit domestic enterprises can develop so quickly, while our European enterprises are making such slow progress in terms of technology. ”

Eder looked at Albert and said, "Mr. Albert, your Fincantieri Group has received a lot of funding from the European Union for the Vikings project, but why is the progress so slow?

"The main reason for this project is that the Honghu Shipbuilding Group Company has poached a lot of top technical talents from Europe. In the case of the sixth-generation drilling rig, the company's technology was stolen from our European companies. They hired engineers who had left European companies, and who brought with them the technology of European companies, which was the key to their ability to quickly master the technology. We should crack down on such acts. ”

"Mr. Albert, if you get the EU to ban the import of equipment from the Honghu Shipping Group Company, then our group company will sue you Fincantieri Group for disrupting normal business activities!"

Pete Worthon said with a cold face.

Now that the Royal Dutch Shell Group has signed a contract with the Honghu Shipbuilding Group Company, if it is done by the Fincantieri Group Company, the interests of the Group Company will definitely be affected, which he cannot bear.

"What if it's not a ban on imports, but just a tariff increase?"

Albert asked unrelentingly.

"We will not accept this approach, if the EU imposes high tariffs on this import, our group of companies will take the Fincantieri group of companies and the EU to court at the same time!"

Pete Worthon said with a glare.

The Fincantieri Group of Companies is a European company, and the Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies is also a European company, and the volume is larger, and the oil companies have much more say than the Fincantieri Group Company.

"Mr. Worthen, we are not targeting the Royal Dutch Shell group of companies, we are doing this for our EU shipbuilding industry. ”

Albert said.

"Then you should come up with the products of the sixth-generation drilling platform now, even if it is more expensive, we can purchase it. ”

"This ......"

"Mr. Albert, you have wasted too much time on the matter of the drilling platform, and the cooperation between the Royal Dutch Shell Group and the Rabbit State Enterprise is a very normal business activity, and I hope you will not make some unreasonable demands on the EU side on this project. ”

Edel said in a deep voice.

"We have been paying attention to the negotiations between the EU and the rabbit country, we feel that the EU's attitude in the negotiations is too weak, and now the rabbit country is obviously dragging out time in order to win the opportunity to develop the domestic high-end ship equipment industry, if the rabbit country insists on the requirement of 50% localization rate in imported equipment, then we can also require that the equipment imported from the rabbit must include 50% European products. ”

Albert glanced at Pete Watson at this time: "Mr. Watson, you have no objection to my suggestion, do you?"

Pete Worthon said: "As long as it doesn't have any impact on the projects of our group of companies, I certainly have no objection. ”

Rabbit China only carried out the technical tracking and development work including LNG ships and drilling platforms in the middle of the last century, and there are only a few authorized domestic shipyards of Rabbit.

Some of these key technologies are still in the hands of a handful of companies, including the Fincantieri group of companies, and these shipyards in Asia import proprietary technology mainly from Europe, and each ship has to pay these companies expensive royalties for patents.

Especially in terms of technology patents for ultra-large LNG ships, the Fincantieri Group is a shareholder of the French Gaza Transport Technology Company, which was formed by the merger of two innovative companies with a similar start-up time, both companies have a long history in the field of LNG transportation, and have been conducting research and development on LNG technology since the sixties, both companies have accumulated a large number of technical patents, and built an extremely strong patent barrier, after the merger of the two companies in the nineties of the last centuryIt now holds a firm grasp of the technical patents in the field of LNG ships and onshore LNG storage.

The company's membrane liquid cargo enclosure system has been verified by hundreds of ships, and has achieved indisputable success, firmly occupying 90 percent of the share in this area, with a profit margin of up to 58 percent, and the technical barriers are deep, and the technical solutions are mature enough, so there is no need to worry about other companies catching up in the short term, so there is no need to invest heavily in research and development of new technologies, it can be said that it is lying down to make money.

Even in the worst years, the company's net profit margin remained above 30 percent, compared to more than 50 percent in normal years.

At this level, only a few subsidiaries of Huaxing Group can do it, one is fuel cells, and the other is lithography machine products.

This company, like other engineering projects, also collects money on a node-by-node basis.

Shipyards may lose money when building LNG ships, but it is almost impossible for Gaza Transport Technologies to face a loss, because the main cost is labor costs, and the ultra-high profit margins are enough to cover the potential for bad debts.

In fact, no shipyard will default on the company's patent license fees, and there are many shipyards that can build LNG carriers, but there are not many companies that can provide LNG liquid cargo enclosure technology, and there is a proper seller's market.

Now Huaxing Group has mastered the hydrogen fuel technology and developed the container technology of this fuel, and gradually entered the field of ultra-large hydrogen fuel carriers from the shore, the key is that the company has mastered the liquid cargo enclosure system technology of this ship, avoiding the company's patented technical barriers!

The Gaza Transport Technology Company has no technical reserves in this regard, and it is immediately anxious to see that the Honghu Shipbuilding Group is now constantly grounding large hydrogen-fueled carriers.

This is also the main reason why Albert, the chairman of the Fincantieri Group of Companies, is in a hurry to deal with the Honghu Shipbuilding Group.