Chapter 365: Containers
Sitting in the Chinese-style room, Mihai came to China only a month, has gradually liked the traditional Chinese culture, compared with Russia, with the United States, China's 5000 years of long history, and the continuous inheritance from generation to generation, so that he has a rich heritage, although in this era, China has fallen behind, but when he saw the development of Baotou with his own eyes, he really realized that the French Emperor Napoleon said that China is a sleeping lion, once it wakes up, bring to the whole world, But it was an absolute shock, for this, Mihai in the United States still scoffed, but now, watching the rise of a miracle, he really realized that the reason why a great man is a great man is because of this difference in opinion.
Just ended the meeting, announced the construction plan of 12 railways, of course, this construction plan is led by Zhan Tianyou, he has not heard the name of Zhan Tianyou, China, a relatively backward place, has not affected him as a high-level in the Pacific, but he has seen the railway before Baotou, 3 parallel lines of 4500 kilometers of railway, even if he personally completes it, it is just so, the construction may not be so fast.
As a high-level of a railway company, Mihai is not jealous of others who are stronger than him, professional things, leave professional people to do, since Zhan Tianyou has proved that he has the ability to build a railway with the actual situation, so why stick to who is in charge, with the speed of Baotou, one year, it will definitely be able to be built, and even the phased opening of traffic is no problem, when the time comes, what he needs to do is to continue to coordinate these, and a year's time. For Baotou's strong processing capacity and the development of the steel plant, it should already be able to produce a sufficient number of rails and locomotives. The future, a bigger blueprint. Waiting for him to sway, to dispatch.
The current Baotou, to be exact, is now China, under the impetus of the super industrial base of Baotou, is a blank sheet of paper, and with the density of railways around Baotou, it has formed a railway of tens of thousands of kilometers or even higher. This is only the northwest of China, once the railway is densely packed into the country, the mileage and freight capacity of the railway, will definitely exceed the Pacific Ocean, and the resolute and professional construction of the railway in Baotou, 200,000 kilometers, is not a difficult to complete, at most ten years, and the next time. The railway will produce an explosive period, which is what a temptation for Mihai, who has devoted his life to the field of railways.
Now Mihai has long since lost the time of the United States. After a few years of working and leaving, he hopes to use the rest of his life to lay the foundation for China's railways. Re-replicate the splendor of the Pacific Ocean in China, the glory of his own.
The door creaked open. The young Yang Yuanzhao walked into the door, and Mihai stood up. Saluted Yang Yuanzhao, in just one or two months, Yang Yuanzhao's expression convinced Mihai, and said with a little lowered his identity: "President Yang, I don't know what you are looking for me for!" ”
"There's a plan for you to see, so let's take a look!"
Plan, Mihai concentrated his mind slightly, Yang Yuanzhao used the magic table xiàn, conquered everyone, including Mihai, Baotou's railway can have such a big improvement, on the one hand, he Mihai is professional, on the other hand, how can it not be that Baotou has an excellent foundation, and even many of Yang Yuanzhao's magical watches.
Flipping through the report, the first side of the report says about the use of containers in railways and various types of transportation.
Container, a very unfamiliar name, is it to gather all kinds of products, after opening it, Mihai found that this is not a simple description, but a huge aspect, standardization, including trains, ships, river transport, road transport, and many other aspects combined into a scheme, the design is comprehensive, the scope is so large, even Mihai is a little surprised.
To put it bluntly, it is with the help of standardized carriages, such as the carriages of trains as the basis, all kinds of commodities are put into standardized carriages, and then before arriving at the destination, no longer open the box, even if it is transshipment and transfer, it can also be classified and hoisted through the guò crane.
For the change of the whole world, Mihai has always seen it, especially after coming to Baotou, he has seen a lot of various types of machinery, simple hoist cranes, can save a lot of porters, reduce labor, but such a systematic project, is it really possible.
"President Yang, the carriage of the railway is about 50 tons, in this era, is there such a large truck?"
Yang Yuanzhao was stunned, he proposed this, also before, I saw Mihai, after adjusting the entire freight, after improving the efficiency, it was decided with a pat on the brain, in later generations, the container has a great advantage in the linkage between the railway and the sea, as well as the linkage between the road and the railway, the entire transportation can be incorporated into the container system, and then it can reach all parts of the world smoothly, but there is one thing he ignores, this is not the 21st century more than 100 years later, all kinds of trucks, The linkage of railways and highways, and even the linkage of sea and highway and inland waterway transportation has become the highlight of the container system.
But in this era, the sea has a huge scale, the railway is also developing, only the road, when the automobile has just developed for more than ten years, and even some big families are still using horse-drawn carriages, how can it be impossible to pull away the carriage weighing 50 tons.
The engine and the car are what Yang Yuanzhao is best at, but he was asked by Mihai in this best place, Yang Yuanzhao blushed for a while, and then said hesitantly: "I will solve the car matter, but it may not reach the height of 50 tons, 5 tons is about the same!" ”
In the 21st century, under the load capacity of automobiles, it is difficult for ordinary cars to reach 50 tons, and this era is even more so, but in the later generations of engines, coupled with his strength in the engine, plus the high-strength materials provided by the all-in-one machine, 5 tons should be no problem.
"5 tons!" Mihai's eyes lit up, pondered for a moment, and said: "This can be modified to replace the carriage with 8-10 standard boxes of five tons, this is a small problem, but Chairman Yang, we don't have a seaport, and even inland river transportation is not very good!" ”
"Ugh!" The blow appeared again, Yang Yuanzhao was a little speechless, he originally wanted to make Mihai's eyes shine, but Mihai asked so many questions, and each of them was a point.
Mihai is right, this container was first proposed by sea. Container, which is an important invention of later generations, shipping, air and land linkage, the use of containers and large-scale lifting production equipment, can complete rapid transshipment, save a lot of time, and effectively improve the throughput capacity of the port.
In this era of shipping, a 10,000-ton cargo ship, can transport a lot of materials, under the fast speed, greatly reduce the distance between various places, but in the port unloading and loading is a big problem, especially bulk cargo, more often, can only manpower, such as the flour shipped from the United States, after arriving at the port, can only rely on manpower to move down, Shanghai's wharf, the largest group is the porter. The advent of containers, which increased the speed of transportation of bulk commodities, was a remarkable invention.
"Of course, President Yang, this mention is very good, not without practical significance!" Mihai saw Yang Yuanzhao's expression and hurriedly said.
Hearing that there was still a turning point, Yang Yuanzhao's eyes lit up, staring at Mihai, Mihai continued: "After I came to Baotou to adjust the freight in Baotou, the freight of the whole Baotou has been greatly improved, but now there is a bottleneck, that is, the railway connecting Baotou with the outside world!" ”
Baotou is connected to the outside world, nothing more than Zhengtai and Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, sure enough, Mihai said that it is these two, originally, the current northwest, the scope of control, the carrying capacity of the railway, and the situation of the carriages, far more powerful than other railways, which requires transfer, a certain distance dù, which wastes a lot of time, no matter how much goods are transported, unless it is directly to Zhangjiakou and Taiyuan, the rest, to be transferred out, the cost is huge, this bottleneck, along with Baotou's increasingly strong transportation capacity, is becoming more and more obvious.
Because of this, the Jin merchants established a large-scale wholesale market in Taiyuan and Zhangjiakou, which was used to distribute various products from Baotou, digest a part of them locally, and then digest them through various means. The emergence of containers, with containers suitable for other railways, with small box filling methods, with cranes for transshipment, which will greatly improve the efficiency of transshipment, reasonable use of other railway resources, because relative to the perfect transportation of Baotou, Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway and Zhengtai Road, their transport capacity has not been fully developed, so as to enhance their potential as much as possible, and even affect them, and Baotou standards are unified, after all, these railways are also to make money, greatly improve the efficiency of the situation, a lot of rules, can be broken.
In this sense, the container is promising, in the local adjustment, at least, in the Baotou railway and the outside world increasingly close contact, in this case, the internal, it has completed the unification, improve efficiency, when the future, the northwest railway highway, can be extended there, can be extended to where.
Listening to Mihai's words, Yang Yuanzhao sighed that Mihai has a wide range of knowledge, in a sense, Mihai sees it clearly than him, more than half a step is a genius, more than one step is a madman, containers are like this, even if the land of Baotou control zhì is large in the future, it is impossible to affect other countries, the huge effect of containers in shipping, is under the situation of global unification, it is developed, which needs to be coordinated, and even let the mainstream seaports join in, together to improve this standard, this is the real role of containers.
Yang Yuanzhao finally agreed with Mihai's words, he will carry out a unified standard for large and small containers in Baotou, and will also popularize gantry cranes and tower cranes in various freight yards to speed up the transfer speed. (To be continued......) R1292