Tang Zheng led a huge technical team to set off. The reason why it is huge is because there are ten teams of ten people, hundreds of people, plus security personnel, more than 130 people, and 50 vehicles.

The planned canal is 137 kilometers long, and according to the design, the course of the canal does not directly cross the Kra Isthmus, but presents a northeastward route, and if a straight line is taken under the canal, with the east bank as the vertical line, forming a right triangle, then the canal is the longest hypotenuse.

This was done with the view to the sea - the location of a semicircular bay that would be very conducive to the development of a large port.

In other words, each team is responsible for about 14 kilometers of volume, while carrying out detailed surveys. The amount of excavations, the surrounding environment, the transportation environment, the construction environment, and so on in the places where the canal passes, etc., must be counted first-hand.

Therefore, each squad is composed of elites of different professions, which can be described as the technical elite of FKY company.

It stands to reason that Li Mai did not comply with the rules in doing so without the authorization of the authorities. However, the current situation of the authorities, coupled with the fact that they have communicated with the leadership of the two canals in Chumphon and Ranong, will not be a big problem with this large-scale survey operation. Even the regional police are dispatched to provide them with a certain amount of protection.

Just have money.

The 10 teams split up in Chumphon and headed for their respective destinations, each with two to three members from the Safety Supervision Department driving a Land 4700 off-road vehicle to take care of safety.

Tang Zheng needs to be in command in Chumphon City, pay close attention to the situation of each team, and after the work is halfway completed, conduct a team-by-team inspection.

Responsible for commanding the personnel of the safety supervision department, it is Long Yi, in the short term, he is in charge of security work, and he is basically the specific work implementer under Li Xian. He had already set off with the team, and the executives who stayed in Chumphon City were left with Tang Zheng and one of his assistants.

On the afternoon of his arrival, Tang Zheng drove alone along the Pan-Asian Highway for more than 30 kilometers to the south, then turned to the left, thinking that after driving about 5 kilometers to the coast, he could see the Gulf of Thailand.

At this time, in front of him was the future east port of the Kra Canal.

After getting out of the car, he walked towards the beach. The team in charge of surveying this section of the route will take at least a week to survey here, so he came over in advance to take a look. Both the east and west ports of the Kra Canal will be large deep-water ports, capable of berthing fully laden 300,000-ton oil tankers.

With the original plan, the Japanese did not need to build a deep-water port. Ships can sail directly into the Gulf of Thailand into the South China Sea or the Andaman Sea into the Indian Ocean via the Guò Canal without stopping. Even if you need to wait at anchor, you can do so in shallow waters. Deep-water ports are largely insignificant.

In the early stage, there were many discussions within the Gun Regiment Construction Group, and in the end, Li Maili decided to build a large-scale deep-water port that could meet the needs of at least 10 300,000-ton ships docking, recuperation, replenishment, and even simple maintenance.

Almost no one on the board of directors, the executive board, and the executive committee, except for a few die-hards who blindly obeyed Li Mai as always, agreed with Li Mai's ideas.

The reason is very, very simple -- the investment is huge.

FKY plans to invest 300 billion soft yuan in the Kra Canal, which is still a preliminary estimate. If only one canal is dug up, even if it is an incomparable canal, it will be enough at most 200 billion. Investment soared to 300 billion precisely because of the two large deep-water ports at the east and west ends.

The cost team recently made an analysis, and maybe 300 billion is not enough. Specifically, it depends on the design standards of large deep-water ports.

Tang Zheng walked to the beach and looked around, a large barren tidal flat. Compared with China, there are no shelterbelts here at all, and all the trees seem to grow naturally, but there is more natural beauty.

Jumping on a large rock, Tang Zheng looked at the semi-circular bay, and his mind was already sketching a future large-scale deep-water port as far as his eyes could see.

The area of the bay is very large, and the hydrological situation, underwater topography, water depth, etc., are all in Tang Zheng's mind. The entire bay is leveled and deepened, the mouth of the canal is opened in the middle, and the two sides are either 55 or 37, and ten 300,000-ton wharves required by the boss are arranged, and two docks that can accommodate 100,000-ton ships for maintenance are built at the edge of both sides of the bay. Various other port facilities, transportation terminals, living facilities and so on.

There are almost six kilometers from here to the Pan-Asian Highway, and a high-grade four-lane or six-lane highway has been built to connect with the Pan-Asian Highway. For future development, it is also necessary to retain at least two square kilometres of reserve land around the harbour.

And so on and so forth......

A sketch was formed in Tang Zheng's mind, but what he saw was such a picture - using trucks of soft coins to pour into the sea water and into the surrounding wasteland. He suddenly had a strong feeling -- immediately submit a report to Li Mai that the budget of 300 billion yuan was not enough!

Even now, Tang Zheng has not fully understood Li Mai's insistence on building a large deep-water port at the mouth of the two sections of the canal, and even a maintenance dock. If the construction of the two seaports is completed as proposed by Li Mai, they will become among the top five largest ports in Southeast Asia.

Is it necessary to save zài? The canal, which is no more than 100 kilometers long, can be reached in five or six hours by a slow ship, that is, it only takes half a day. By design, the Kra Canal will never have the point where there are so many ships waiting to pass that they have to wait in line and need a port.

Why did Li Mai use so much money to build two large deep-water ports, and the money was burned in a panic? Tang Zheng didn't know what the others thought in their hearts, but although he obeyed the instructions, he was opposed to them in his heart.

It is precisely because he has never figured out this problem in his heart that after Tang Zheng arrived in Chumphon City, the first thing he wanted to see was the location of the Dongkou Port that would be built first.

Thanks to the developed technology, what Tang Zheng has seen with his own eyes now is not very different from what he saw on the real-time 3D map of the satellite before. It's more about the difference in feeling. You know, using satellite 3D technology to determine the contour of the coastline, the accuracy can even reach the centimeter level!

In Tang Zheng's imagination, the outline of a large deep-water port is already very clear. As the company's chief engineer and general manager in charge of engineering construction at FKY, he is not in vain. He also has some accomplishments in port design.

How to design a more modern seaport that meets the requirements of the boss is the first thing he needs to consider, and there is also a crucial issue of engineering quality standards......

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