It's a pity. At the time of last year. Good days for German shipbuilding. By the impact of the financial crisis in Southeast Asia last year, the world economy was rapidly heading into recession. What was once the Asian Tigers became Asian stripworms. Look at the whole world. Only China's economy is still growing strongly.

The first direct consequence of the rapid recession of the world economy was the sharp decline in the volume of international trade. And it has rapidly affected the international shipping market closely related to international trade. The collapse of many shipping companies has led to a decline in the demand market for ships. The German shipbuilding industry, along with the world shipbuilding industry, fell into a trough.

Under the influence of the general recession of the international shipbuilding market environment. The shipbuilding industry in Germany lost a large number of domestic and foreign shipbuilding orders. At the same time, there was a sharp decline in the number of hand-held orders and the number of completed deliveries. A large number of ships that had been completed or were nearly completed were left half-dead on the slipway without anyone receiving them - because the shipping company that had placed the order had gone out of business - and the same. It seems that the shadow of the Southeast Asian financial crisis is not limited to this. The share of the German shipbuilding industry in the world shipbuilding market has also been declining. Very old said. The German shipping industry is now at its worst juncture since World War II.

For these. Bi Ric Deran knows it very well. Naturally, the bosses of the country's automobile workers are also very clear. And even for the situation that the German shipbuilding industry is currently facing. There's also a bit of schadenfreude: look at yourselves how unlucky you are now. Before in front of us, he was like Lao Tzu. Now they are all gray and sloppy like grandchildren. Come out and take a look at it again? With such strong support from the government. Now he looks half-dead. It's good now. See what you guys do!

One thing is clear to Bired. Bremen's VLLKAN Group is about to go out of business. It hasn't gone out of business yet. It was they who pinned all their hopes on this huge order from the Alice Group: as long as they could get enough orders, the Bremen VLLKAN Group might be able to avoid death. No need to go bankrupt but if you can't get enough orders from Alice Group. Then the Vellkan Group in Brelai has only the road of bankruptcy and bankruptcy - and there is a limit to government support.

For Zhang Zongjun's personal please. Naturally, Bired does not refuse from the depths of his heart. BIED WOULD RATHER SEE HOW THE VELLKAN GROUP IN BREMEN DIED. However, we are all companies from the same country. "If you can. I'm honored to do that. ”

What did Zhang Lancai's lazy Birui think in his heart: Do you think that the VLLKEN Group of Bremen would have collapsed earlier? It doesn't matter, as long as the offer they give is low enough, I don't mind pulling them off; But if they look for death themselves. That's not to blame anyone else. Die and die. It doesn't have much to do with me anyway.

The Bremen VLLKEN Group has indeed put all its treasures in this investment promotion activity of the Alice Group. For the VLLKEN Group in Bremen. As long as it can get 30% of the total order of Alice Group, the VLLKEN group can alleviate the capital chain that is about to break.

As Germany's largest shipbuilder. The German government also did not want the VLLKE group in Bremen to fall like this: if there was a competition with the Bolomfors shipyard, i.e. the Hamburg shipyard. For the construction of the German military industry, especially the construction of the navy, it is not necessarily a good thing.

However, it is limited to the provisions of the home policy. The German government has not yet been able to exert much effort in this regard. The only thing that can be done. IS TO TRY TO HELP BREMEN VLLKEN SET | As a result, the Alice Group's subsidiary in Germany suddenly received extra care from the German government. At the same time, the German government also vaguely thought that Alice herself had expressed her thoughts.

Alice's reply was: Let's see.

The VLLKEN Group in Breulai is not doing well with other shipyards in Germany, and the largest shipyard in Germany, the Deutsche Shipyard in Hooz, is now struggling with the orders that are rotting: knowing that the ships in their hands will be enough to sell in a few years. But the question is how much of their own funds will be taken up by these ships? The inability to flow funds is simply a catastrophe for a company! Not to mention in order to keep these ships performing well. The necessary maintenance of these vessels is essential. Just for the maintenance and upkeep of these vessels. That's a pretty bad amount.

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15th. It is the day when the ship investment project of Elle Group officially begins. Zhang Lan, Xiao Beibei and Xiao Chenxi hid in an inconspicuous corner of the lobby of the Alice Group headquarters building. Rather obscenely looked at the representatives of these shipbuilders of different colors from various countries, or the old

These guys are not as glamorous and domineering as they were before the '97 Southeast Asian financial crisis. frowned. Or see that no one around you cares. Hurry up and take out the materials you prepared before and read them again. To make sure nothing is missing. Others have words in their mouths. I don't know what I'm talking about. The situation is very similar to that of a college entrance examination candidate in China who is preparing to enter the examination room

Times are different. It was someone else begging them to buy something. As for now. It's like grandchildren begging others to buy the West. This year. Whoever has money is the uncle.

In the midst of this group. Zhang Lan quickly recognized the two gangs who tried to raise prices collectively: representatives of Japanese and South Korean shipbuilders. Why can Zhang Lan be able to recognize the homes of these two countries at a glance among so many people. There is no other reason. The Korean's iconic flatbread face and the Japanese's signature dwarf man come together. It's hard to make you even want to recognize them.

Zhang Lan always felt very strange. I always feel that the country of South Korea is very cheap. is so cheap that people have nothing to say: they were obviously bullied by Japan like a grandson in World War II or even some time ago. I also think that I should be at odds with Japan. It's hard to even see a Japanese car in Korea. But these guys are stuck in the fashion trend to catch the Japanese tail. Technically, it closely follows Japan.

While scolding Japan. First, Japan should be the ancestor of itself. What the hell do you think. Zhang Lan is not Korean. I haven't figured it out for a long time after thinking about this question. Maybe this is Korea's own unique cultural tradition? But in a word. Koreans are quite cheap.

Compared with the generations of some shipbuilding enterprises in other countries. The guys in these two countries are a bit arrogant. At least in his own opinion. It is indeed a high-spirited capital: Japan and Japan are now the world's top two shipbuilding countries. Although in terms of the technology and design concept of commercial ships, it is inferior to these traditional shipbuilding powers in Europe, such as Germany, France, Sweden. Nor can it be compared with the United States. But in the capacity of commercial vessels. It is in terms of the production capacity of large commercial vessels. However, it accounts for more than half of the world's commercial ship production capacity. Alice Group's procurement plan for this time. If you don't source from them. They wanted to achieve their previous desire to transport a total tonnage of 1 million tons. It seems to be very difficult. ,

According to their own findings. The number of ships that Europe now has. There is still a long way to go to meet the requirements of the Alice Group. The number of ships combined would not be half as much as the Alice Regiment had achieved - this is a fact. That's what Alice Group found - on this premise. The Japanese and Koreans really can't think of any reason why the Alice Group should not bow to themselves. It's just that these guys don't learn a lot from their Chinese ancestors. Forgot one word: the stomper. People always step on it. Of course. You can also say that these guys just don't have a long memory, and they don't know how many times they've been stepped on by others. But I don't have a long memory every time. The fault of the offender will be the same next time.

"Look at some guys. Isn't it very much like that kind of big Italian rooster with bright feathers and majestic feathers? Zhang Lan tilted her head to the side and asked Xiao Beibei.

"Like!" Little Beibei nodded very firmly.

"Know what the big is for?" Zhang Lan's words were ill-intentioned.

"What for?" Xiao Chenxi is very cooperative.

"Except that I have nothing to do. The most important role of the Grand Duke is to kill the meat-eaters during the New Year's holidays or when important guests come to the house. Zhang Lan pointed out the purpose of the Grand Duke. Especially this domesticated grass chicken. It is the best of them. The meat is umami and delicious. Unless it's the old ladies in the countryside who are idle and have nothing to do to raise two. No, it's really hard for you to buy two of these big cocks with such shiny feathers now. ”

"Uh-oh." Little Dawn Point. "Is it time to kill and eat meat?"

"Not yet." Zhang Lan looked at the group of Italian Koreans. There was a slight smile on the corner of his mouth. "But right away."

"There's going to be a good show right away|!" Little Beibei licked the corners of her bright red lips excitedly. Bright red as blood.

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The process of the investment conference. It's not so much a business conference. It's better to say that it's an auction meeting. The only difference is. Auctions are getting higher and higher. The offer of the ships of the Alice Group at this investment conference is getting lower and lower. A 30,000-ton VLCC-class supertanker that usually costs $700,000 to trade. Now the transaction price is only about 50 million US dollars.