Chapter 634: Global Imports of Ores

After leaving the car factory, Cook's face immediately recovered.

Cai Ruichen originally proposed to go to his private reception room immediately to communicate about the cooperation between the two sides in the future.

If it was before, Cook would never refuse, after all, reaching cooperation with Future Technology Group as soon as possible is the biggest purpose of his trip.

But after a series of blows, Cook realized that his previous plans and ideas were too naïve.

In fact, from the very beginning, when Future Technology Group launched the extremely advanced machine steward, he should have realized that the technology of Future Technology Group in the high-tech field is no longer something that Apple can compete.

It's just that subjectively, he doesn't believe that in terms of Apple's most specialized field, it will be surpassed.

In fact, the tip of the iceberg of the future technology group he saw in his eyes told him that his previous thoughts were as naïve as a sixteen-year-old girl.

At this moment, Cook, who was deeply hit, must calm down, otherwise he will not be able to cooperate with Cai Ruichen at all.

So when Cai Ruichen proposed a formal cooperation meeting, he chose to refuse, saying that he was a little tired and hoped to take a break before talking.

Cai Ruichen didn't feel surprised at all, he understood Cook's fatigue along the way, and asked Xu Jie to take out a copy of the information of Future Technology Group and hand it to Cook, and asked Xu Jie to personally send him to the hotel room to rest.

The time of the meeting was revised to tomorrow morning.

At the door of the automobile factory, Cai Ruichen looked at Cook who left in a special car, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled. Then a slight smile. Then he laughed.

His heart at the moment. He was very happy to be able to scare such a global technology giant like this, and he was both proud and gratified.

In global science and technology, the United States no longer has the status of absolute hegemon, and in the future, it will embark on a new path of scientific and technological development under its own guidance.

And today's scene was originally designed by him. In order to let Cook see the gap between Apple Group and Future Technology Group.

Cooperation is possible, and the future technology group also needs partners to cooperate, but cooperation is to show strength and sincerity.

Now that Future Technology Group has a comprehensive leading technology in the field that Apple Group is best at, he wants to see how Apple Group can cooperate with him.

And today, he had no plans for a formal meeting with Cook, nor did he have such a schedule.

From Cook's choice to come to the car factory, everything is already within Cai Ruichen's plan. Only by fighting such people can there be a sense of accomplishment.

Cai Ruichen, who also left in a special car. It's also starting to get busy.

However, he is busy with taking as much time as possible to meet with representatives of various countries, and as for the business team, he is not required to be present at all.

Lin Chongxian will arrange these people, otherwise, if he needs to meet with all of them, then even if he is given a month, it will not be enough.

He could only pick some major goals and negotiate the necessary cooperation for the next step.

After Cook left, Cai Ruichen met with the general managers of three Australian iron ore export companies in one go during the next three hours until lunch.

BHP Billiton has the largest iron ore industry, exporting 70 million tons of ore annually on the international ore trading market.

The second company is the Hamosley Iron Ore Company, which exports 10,000 tons of iron ore in the international export market every year.

The third company is the Luobu River Iron Ore United Company, which exports about 30 million tons of iron ore annually.

Combined, these three companies account for more than 20 percent of global iron ore exports.

In addition, Cai Ruichen also held talks with the president of Brazil's Vale, which exports a staggering 120 million tons of ore annually.

After the conversation, Cai Ruichen also signed ore import agreements with these four iron ore companies.

At present, the global price of iron ore has fallen into a downturn for two consecutive years.

From US$92 a tonne two years ago, it has now been reduced to US$59 a tonne, which is almost a cut in price, and it has also made life difficult for these companies, which mainly rely on iron ore exports.

Recently, the global price of iron ore has begun to recover a little, but it has also increased by $5 per ton from the lowest price of $54 at the beginning.

Future Technology Group has signed contracts with three companies in Australia for the supply of 5 million tons of iron ore per year, and Vale has also signed contracts for the supply of 15 million tons of iron ore per year.

For all the iron ore transportation, the four companies only need to move to the ports of their home countries, and then the cargo ships sent out by the future transportation companies will transport them back.

Transportation to the port is a service that the export company should provide, and even the loading is the responsibility of the export company.

In the contracts signed with the four iron ore export companies, the prices are all calculated according to the international iron ore price fluctuations, and in terms of actual prices, all four companies have signed price supplementary agreements with Future Technology Group, and the price per ton of iron ore will be two US dollars lower than the actual international price.

Don't underestimate these two dollars, in a year, you can save the Future Technology Group $60 million in expenses.

The agreement will last for eight years, and in the next eight years, the future technology group can only increase the number of orders, not reduce the number of orders.

Of course, if the order is increased, the four companies must also give more discounts, and they must still be lower than the international market price.

The annual cost of importing 30 million tons of iron ore has reached 2 billion US dollars.

Two billion US dollars, for Cai Ruichen, is just a drizzle, and the direct capital income will reach three billion base funds.

On average, if all the iron ore can be digested, it can add at least 8 million to the base every day.

The steel required for construction can also be produced from the base.

Once these contracts were signed, the four companies had to provide iron ore as soon as they were requested.

However, Cai Ruichen is not worried, because these four companies still have a backlog of more than 3 million tons of iron ore in their respective ports, all of which are not purchased and are backlogged in the ports.

The news that Future Technology Group has signed an annual import of 30 million tons of steel with the world's four major steel companies has also spread.

For the import volume of 30 million tons of steel, many people are curious about where the Future Technology Group got such a big appetite, because such a huge import volume is not imported by the Iraqi government. (To be continued.) )