Chapter 21 Distribution of Grain, Oil Tankers and Mineral Deposits

In 2013, Wang Fan's main plane, the world financial crisis brewed and fermented five years ago and evolved into a world economic crisis, and the impact has spread from the virtual economy to the real economy. Frolin, one of the world's largest oil tanker companies, has cancelled six newbuilding plans at the Yanhuang Republic shipyard, including three Suezmax tankers and three V tankers at Jiangsu Rongling Heavy Industries and Zhoushan Jinshawan Shipyard, with a total value of more than US$476 million, equivalent to one-third of its total orders. The domestic shipbuilding industry market as a whole is in an extremely weak period, from dry bulk, containers, oil tankers to ro-ro ship construction have entered the trough, after the peak in 2008, insufficient start-up, enterprise bankruptcy, boss runaway, overcapacity shrouded the entire Yanhuang shipbuilding industry.

On the coast of Yueqing, Zhejiang Province, the towering dock stands abruptly, with a pile of marine steel in the scattered yard, and the workers' dormitories are bleak, which is the shipbuilding base of Dongfang Shipbuilding. Work has been suspended here since last autumn, and all workers are waiting for the shipyard's final judgment of fate. In 2006, on the tidal flats of Yueqing, Zhejiang, gantry cranes can be seen everywhere, and the beach is brightly lit at night, and the welding light flashes all night. But all this became a thing of the past with the 2008 international financial crisis.

The main reasons for the crisis of Oriental Shipbuilding are: first, the shipbuilding industry has seen an overall downturn in recent years, and the industry is in a recession; Second, excessive investment is also an important reason for the financial difficulties of the Eastern Shipbuilding Group. In 2011, Dongfang Shipbuilding Group invested more than 700 million yuan in Anhui, nearly 2,000 acres of land. In the middle of 2012, the owners of the six oil tankers manufactured by the Oriental Shipbuilding Group abandoned the ship, and according to the contract signed at that time, all the payments had to be refunded, plus the cost of shipbuilding, involving about 700 million funds, which almost killed the Oriental Shipbuilding; Third, the high interest rates and reduced lending of banks have also brought a certain burden to enterprises.

Due to the imminent rupture of the capital chain, Chen Datong, chairman of the Oriental Shipbuilding Group, is facing the dilemma of bankruptcy, and in the past two days he is considering whether to transfer the remaining assets overseas and prepare to run away. Although he was reluctant to lay the foundation he had worked so hard for, the severance of financing channels had become the last straw that crushed Dongfang Shipbuilding. Now the only thing he can cash out is the 6 oil tankers abandoned by the shipowner in 2012, in addition to the diesel engine that has not been installed due to financial reasons, the overall completion rate of 6 oil tankers is 85%, the total length of each ship is 157.75 meters, the beam is 23.6 meters, and the deadweight ton is 13,000 tons, and the cargo oil tank part has been completed, divided into the first cargo oil tank, the second cargo oil tank, the third cargo oil tank, the fourth cargo oil tank, and the fifth cargo oil tank. What made him hesitate to make a transfer of assets was that a customer called yesterday and expressed interest in the six oil tankers and agreed to see them today. This is Chen Datong's last hope and Dongfang Shipbuilding's self-salvation.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, at the Oriental Shipyard, the workers were bored in a daze in the workshop, thinking about how to get back the arrears of 4 months' wages.

"Brother Liu, how are the negotiations?" The foreman's surname is Liu, and he is from the same small western village as the other workers, and they are very close.

"It must be another drag, drag, drag, if you want me to say, we're just too honest, give him a ruthless one!" A sturdy 25-year-old arrived.

"Huzi, don't get excited, that's the last resort, everyone will use it after tearing their faces. Besides, this is not our hometown, Mr. Chen knows a lot of people among local officials, and we are here to make money, not to enter the bureau. What's more, we've been watching these 6 boats, and the monk can't run the temple if he can run!" An older boatman said busily!

"Okay, everyone, don't talk nonsense about me!" The foreman surnamed Liu interrupted, "I met with Mr. Chen in the morning, and after talking for half an hour, he told me that a big customer came to see these six ships today, and if they could be sold, all the wages would be solved." So today's buying and selling success is closely related to everyone! Everyone is a little tired, clean up the shipyard, tidy up, 11 o'clock customers come, don't let the messy factory scare away people, old bag, you take the welding team, carry the equipment and pretend to continue the gas welding work, others will be busy for a while, don't make people feel that the shipyard has no work to do, to be yellow! ”

At 11 a.m., Chen Datong's car arrived on time, and the workers saw the shipyard boss walking around the place where six oil tankers were docked, accompanied by the shipyard boss, a middle-aged man about 40 years old.

"Mr. Li, you see, these 6 oil tankers are all new ships, and they are basically completed, so they can be used as soon as the engine is safe!"

"Mr. Chen, your shipyard is doing well, it's a busy scene!"

"Hehe, it's okay!"

"But why did I hear that our business is not very good, it doesn't look like it?"

"Alas, don't look at the blind work, you can't earn it before, now the general environment is not good, it is difficult for us to do these small shipyards, and the big factories are better."

"Mr. Chen, I am a relatively straight person, I like to open the skylight and say bright words, I have known in advance about the recent situation of your shipyard, so it is not interesting to rub it, I am really interested in 6 oil tankers, but now that the financial crisis, there are more shipyards to choose from, let's talk about the price directly!"

After the two entered the shipyard office building, the attention of all the workers was focused there.

"500 million yuan is too low, and my cost price has reached 6 or 700 million yuan," Mr. Chen shook his head and said,

"700 million yuan must not be so much, 600 million yuan you are reported according to last year's steel price, this year's steel fell sharply, my price is not low at all, and the later you sell, the lower the price!"

"Mr. Li, go up a little more, okay, I'm really embarrassed, I'll tell you the truth, now I owe 730 million yuan to suppliers and banks, if 500 million yuan is sold to you, I can't make up for the difference of 230 million yuan, and now the company has only 70 million yuan on the account, to put it mildly, I have thought about running away, these 2 months, there have been 3 small factory owners disappeared."

"Oh, why is Mr. Chen still insisting."

"My family business is here, 20 years of hard work, I really can't be reluctant, although foreign countries are good, but how many years can I sit and eat? And these workers have been working with me for 7 years at the earliest, and I don't want to go that way until I have to. ”

"Admire, there are not many like you, I can grow a little, 525 million yuan."

"It's still a little less, Mr. Li, you see..."

"I'm here to make this business, Mr. Chen! In this way, I have a proposal, I will order 6 more oil tankers from you, no need to equip engines, or 525 million yuan, a total of 1.05 billion yuan, how about it? ”

"Really, okay, no problem, what about the payment time?"

"If you consign these six to Weihai Port, I will pay 30% first, and then pay 70% to Weihai, and I will pay 10% for the other 6 ships, and then allocate them according to the progress every month."

The workers of the Dongfang Shipyard received unexpected good news in the afternoon, the shipyard not only sold the six ships and recovered the funds, but also obtained orders for six new oil tankers, and the whole factory was jubilant.

The next day, when the first funds were transferred to the account of Dongfang Shipbuilding, the entire shipyard began to be busy again. On the same day, when the lending banks and suppliers learned that Dongfang Shipbuilding had sold 6 oil tankers in stock and obtained 6 new orders, they either relaxed the loan restrictions on Dongfang Shipbuilding or the time of repayment, etc., for a time, the overall economic environment of Dongfang Shipbuilding improved rapidly, and the entire shipyard came to life again. This year, orders are king!!

At this time, he was already disguised as a middle-aged man who bought oil tankers, Wang Fan, who was already disguised as a Mi countryman, relying on the economic crisis to bargain fiercely, and after purchasing more than 5 million tons of non-genetically modified high-quality wheat and other grains and a large amount of fodder hay from the farmers of Mi in batches, he went to the target plane with a high-resolution extremely detailed map of the global mine and oil distribution purchased from the Qiandu Library.

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