Chapter 526: Top Port (Twelve More Subscription Rewards)
The calm world public opinion is being turned upside down by a series of plans of Future Technology Group.
High-speed rail technology is a relatively mature technology, and it is also a new driving force for the rapid development of the global economy.
Even the United States, which has not built high-speed rail for decades, has planned to start building bullet trains to replace the current green cars in the United States.
In fact, the United States is not without such technology, but it does not have the money to make such a large investment, after all, the American rail system and highway network have been built for decades.
In the United States, there has been no such large-scale construction for decades, and all the investment costs of that year have been recovered, and the high-speed toll collection mechanism has been abolished.
However, one of the problems is that it is in disrepair, and the railway is abandoned every year for a long time due to the development of air transportation.
Highways are getting more and more dilapidated, especially those that were built in the earliest days, and there are problems everywhere, and the uneven ground or some cracks are already minor problems.
The United States originally planned to repair its road transportation facilities at the beginning of the 21 st century.
However, it is a pity that the US Congress has never been able to come up with this money, and every department that uses the money will do its best to cry out to Congress at the annual budget meeting, and even a lot of propaganda and momentum began half a year ago.
In the area of begging for state funds, every year the various departments that spend money in the United States are staging a grand Hollywood production, and one by one they have all lost their discipline, and crying poor has simply become the best job of all American departments.
In the face of all departments, they are crying poor. Where does the US Congress have extra money to improve these infrastructures. After all, these facilities are still available. It's not really broken, it's going to drag it out anyway.
On the other hand, other countries in the world are constantly improving and building domestic transportation facilities, compared with the United States, the world hegemon, it seems to be ahead of time, but in fact, there are more problems.
It's just that the outside world is blocked by the glory on the surface, and few people in the outside world will see the problems that few people care about.
But the question, for the Americans. It is a big problem, and there have been many reactions to such problems on the official websites of many governments in the United States, or on the American livelihood forums.
Unfortunately, there seems to have been no major incident, and the U.S. government has not taken it seriously.
Now, after hearing that Iraq has planned to start building high-speed railways and subways, many citizens at the grassroots level of the United States have no choice but to sigh: Is it possible that even Iraq's railways will surpass those of the United States?
Although there are not many people who make such feelings. But it also occupies a certain proportion, but it has not caused any waves.
But it's the rest of the Middle East that's really getting attention. After all, Iraq is building subways in such a war-torn situation, and in fact, few people are really optimistic.
Some people even say that the construction of high-speed rail only allows those extremist groups to quickly gather in various regions, and will not bring any economic laughter and any benefits at all.
In fact, this is indeed the case, but when the outside world is generally not optimistic, the future shipping company said that it will thoroughly improve and expand the Basra port and completely repair the operation mechanism of the port.
At the same time, the Iraqi government has also said that it plans to raze all the abandoned warehouse areas in the southern part of the Basra port, and build a larger, modern integrated cargo port here by the future construction company, which will be combined with the original port to become the largest integrated port in the Middle East.
In order to improve the throughput of the port and the efficiency of the operation of ships, the depth and width of the waterway from the port of Basra to the Persian Gulf will be expanded, and it is planned to be able to dock supertankers of more than 300,000 tons or supercontainer ships carrying tens of thousands of containers in the future.
The entire investment and construction will be undertaken by the Future Technology Group, because only in this way can it meet the future transportation needs of the Future Technology Group and the needs of goods circulation.
After hearing the news, almost all the experts in the world thought that the future technology group was all amused.
The world's first building, which has already begun to be built, has long been criticized, claiming that it is the most failed building, because it is impossible to go to a place like Iraq, which is still a small town with nothing.
The railway is still criticized and disfavored, because Iraq has not needed such high-speed traffic in recent years, is it just to make it easier to visit and walk relatives?
Now it is necessary to build the world's top modern port, and such an investment will not be possible without hundreds of billions of dollars.
And what's the use of building such a huge port? Is it to unload the grain? Building a port with a daily throughput of millions of tons turns out to be loading and unloading tens of thousands of tons of cargo every day, or even tens of thousands of tons.
After all, in Iraq and the vicinity of the Middle East, there is no demand for freight in this area at all, and there are not so many goods to be delivered, so naturally there are not so many goods to be delivered.
The world's largest port in terms of throughput, Zhoushan Port, has an annual throughput of about one billion tons, and it has become the world's largest port in terms of annual cargo throughput.
The throughput of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is only more than 400 million tons.
Now, the two madmen of Future Technology Group and Iraq have actually expanded the port of Basra into a world-class port capable of reaching the standard of one billion tons of annual throughput.
When the construction is completed, if the annual throughput does not reach hundreds of millions of tons, it will definitely make the world laugh and have a stomachache.
At the same time, the blind optimism of the Future Technology Group is even more incomprehensible, is it possible for the Future Technology Group to completely change the fate of Iraq and even the Middle East?
Otherwise, all these investments will be doomed to failure, and even in the end, even a little bit of cost will not be recovered.
The facilities of those ports will eventually be turned into rusty scrap metal under the damp and salty sea breezes, and at least hundreds of billions of dollars of investment will eventually be sold as scrap metal.
Fortunately, Future Technology Group seems to be very aware of the reaction of the outside world, and has no intention of expressing the need to invest at all, but even if it does, it will definitely not have any grievances, and will invest in such a project that is stable and does not make money, and even the cost cannot be recovered.
However, the discussion of this matter is not over, and the future airline broke the news again. (To be continued.) )