Mae Hong Kong has money.

To be precise, it is the Ministry of Finance of Meigang that has money.

When the cargo ship at the terminal departed for the other side of the ocean, the numbers on the accounts of the Meigang Shipping Company and the Blue Whale Group were always guaranteed.

It's just that the earnings of a single freighter are not as optimistic as expected.

There are two main reasons.

The first reason is that the ship cannot reach full load in a short period of time due to the problem of order quantity and delivery time.

For example, a 10-ton cargo ship from Australia to Arabia was sent to sea, and due to these two problems, it was only 6 tons or even less than half of its carrying capacity before going to sea.

There are a lot of orders, but the timing is uneven, and the global branches are very scattered, and it is impossible to consolidate these orders and ship them in a unified manner.

This has led to a significant reduction in the earnings of the Mekong Shipping Company.

The second reason is piracy.

According to many captains, they sent messages to Mae Gang through GPS satellite signals, saying that they would often encounter harassment from those pirates when they sailed to some sea areas.

For example, the Strait of Malacca in Asia, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and some high seas areas of the Indian Ocean, especially the Somali Sea at the junction.

Some of these pirates were organized by the largest Indonesian fishermen in ASEAN.

They tend to sneak up on freighters in the form of multiple armed fishing boats, especially in the dark of night or in the rain.

These pirates would quickly climb onto the freighter in the harsh environment with years of experience, and were already on board the freighter before the vast majority of the crew could react.

The pirates are all armed with weapons.

Even the weapons in their hands are better equipped than the ordinary military departments of most ASEAN countries.

If these guys were allowed to board the freighter, the fate of the hijacking would be inevitable.

The most important thing is to kill all the people on the ship, cut off the GPS on the ship, and disappear without a trace along with the ship's cargo.

At worst, they surrounded the freighter and harassed and negotiated.

The negotiation is about money, goods or fuel.

If the captain agrees, the pirates will let them go, and if they don't, they will continue to harass and even fire.

The pirates are all in hordes, elusive.

In the blank sea, it will suddenly appear, without any defense.

They seemed to have stepped on a good point, and they knew the routes of these freighters well.

Or wait for the rabbits in a sea area and wait for the ship to appear and rush up.

In just half a month, hundreds of distress signals have been transmitted through satellite frequencies.

Fortunately, the freighter in Mae Harbor was accompanied by soldiers from the Black Hawk Special Operators, and the ships were equipped with modern weapons, so that the pirates did not have the possibility of boarding the ship.

But the hijacking of ships and the killing of people did not happen, and the harassment of the pirate ships was a headache for the captains.

In order to reduce unnecessary friction and losses, captains often choose to pay some "transit fee" compromises.

As a result, the entire route of the freighter will be delayed for a while.

In a sense, it's also a loss.

And it's not the decimal that is lost.

These two situations quickly attracted Bai Chengen's attention.

Bai Chengen immediately convened a special meeting on the issue of the cargo ship being unable to transport at full capacity and how to deal with piracy.

For a time, all the senior leaders of the whole Meigang *** building and the Meigang Shipping Company gathered in the conference room.

Bai Chengen was resolute.

He said: May, June and July are the outbreak period of Meigang orders, and it is also the golden period for Meigang shipping companies to make money.

In any case, it is necessary to solve the current two pain points of shipping companies before the arrival of these three months.

Li Yan also attended the meeting and gave clear support with the attitude of the Supreme Commander of the Ministry of Finance.

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The content of the meeting was very clear.

She said that in order to solve these two pain points of the Meigang Shipping Company, the Finance Department of Meigang can approve a special fund of 10 billion Mekong dollars.

This special fund was personally approved by Jiang Yang, chairman of the Meigang Special Administrative Region, and can be received at any time.

As long as the relevant people in the department propose relevant solutions, the money can be transferred to the account of the company department at any time.

The planning, operation and sales departments of the Mae Gang Shipping Company are responsible for the problem of scattered orders and inability to travel with full loads, while the newly established Maritime Affairs Department team of Mae Hong Kong is responsible for solving the problem of piracy.

The meeting was divided into two steps.

First of all, there is the problem that the cargo is scattered and cannot be fully loaded out of the ship.

A person from the planning department pointed out that although there are nearly 150 large and small cargo ships in Meigang, after all, there are 42 wharves controlled by shipping companies, plus those wharves cooperated with other countries, and the vast majority of each port is docked with one cargo ship.

Regarding the inability to travel with full loads, the main reason is that Meigang *** is excessively "order-taking" in order to monopolize the maritime logistics market.

For example, small countries such as Argentina or Spain do not need to set up their own cargo terminals or cooperative stations in Meigang.

Even if a temporary cooperation station is established, there is no need to send a freighter for them.

As a result, the ships are too scattered around the world, and the dock resources are also scattered.

In Argentina, for example, sometimes the orders accumulated for two months add up to less than 40,000 tons.

The customers of these goods are in a hurry, and the cargo ship has to depart, which greatly increases the probability that the ship will not be able to travel with full loads.

If Meigang can avoid these countries where orders are not concentrated, and concentrate terminal resources and ships in some neighboring countries with more orders around the sea area, such as Australia and the United States, then the first phenomenon will be greatly reduced.

Regarding the suggestions given by the planning department, Bai Chengen's response was: treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

On the surface, it seems to have solved the problem, but in fact it has not helped Meigang much.

The data is good, but for Meigang, it has lost some benefits.

To this end, Bai Chengen told the planning department.

It's not the north, it's not the country.

The purpose of the people inside Meigang is not to make a good data and show it to "above" and show it to Mr. Jiang.

Instead, we should proceed from reality and solve the problem at the root.

"If Mr. Jiang shows these data, I am sure he will be very happy."

"But I'm sorry."

Bai Chengen tapped his fingers on the table: "This is not domestic, and your domestic set will not work here. The management and business model of Mae Hong Kong is that of a company, and in the final analysis, you are just the employees of the company. What I want is a practical solution to the problem, not how to use my brain to get promoted and make a fortune in the system."

For this reason, Bai Chengen removed the minister of the planning department from the list of special personnel in the Meigang *** building on the spot, and asked his secretary to book a ticket for the former minister to return to China.

Under everyone's surprised gaze, the director of the planning department of the Meigang Shipping Company and the director of the northern district of the Meigang Diplomatic Department.

A cadre equivalent to the mayor level.

Just like that, he was fired.