Traversing the courtyard

Chapter 437 Container Terminal Renovation

After half a month, Wei Dong and the classmates in the class were only considered familiar, and it was still a long time, so he was not in a hurry to put anyone on the bed.

However, the sale of the fleet went smoothly. After Weidong took over, he sold both the shipyard and the fleet. Only then did those who understood know that Weidong bought it from Taikoo Oceanic Company for the land of Taikoo Dockyard.

On Sunday, Weidong took Ruan Tao and his assistants to Taikoo Wharf for inspection again. The bulk wharf was still busy. At this time, there were more bulk ships, which relied on manual handling, conveyor belts to assist in unloading, and later generations used containers. Totally different.

Berkeley introduced in detail the recent affairs of Taikoo Wharf. The name Weidong was originally changed to a new name, but Taikoo Wharf Company has been established for hundreds of years. Taikoo Wharf has long been used to being called Taikoo Wharf, and no one else is used to changing the name.

Right now the fleet resident is vacant, but the shipyard has not been moved yet, and many equipments are still there.

I came here today to check it out and discuss the planning of this resident and the development of Taikoo Wharf.

Now Margery is in charge of the storage work at the terminal, and the other two have also gone to their respective owners.

Margery waited for Berkeley to finish his introduction before saying, "Boss, please."

When Weidong first bought it, he was still a little apprehensive. Now that the shipyard and fleet have been sold, only the wharf company is left, and they will definitely not sell it again. No one buys a wharf without land, and sells the wharf Taikoo. All that remains of the dock is the sign.

Entering the conference room of the office, Margery said: "Now the terminal is running well and the performance is stable. Although it was affected by the arrival of Universal before we came, it is gradually recovering now."

Ruan Tao said: "It's good to recover. You are also an old man who has managed the terminal for a long time. Can you tell me about the prospects of the terminal industry?"

Magery said bluntly: "Shipping business has been good this year, and the throughput on the terminal is increasing month by month, especially more and more goods are being sent from Meiguo and Neon, which are reloaded in Xiangjiang and sent to Southeast Asian countries. .”

Xiangjiang is an important distribution center on this route. The zero-tariff policy coupled with the fact that Victoria Bay is one of the three excellent deep-water ports in the world has made the port industry in Xiangjiang very prosperous.

Margery reported this year's performance in detail. Weidong suddenly felt that it would be cost-effective to turn this wharf into a residence. Even if the house price rises skyward in the future, building a house will earn more than one billion. Compared with the long-term benefits brought by wharf storage, Still not enough to watch.

Besides, the land of the Taikoo Dockyard was bought for 999 years. It would be a pity if the house was built and sold. If the leasing industry is developed, this is the foundation of a family. Only rent can maintain a thousand-year-old family.

Weidong decided to overthrow the previous plan of building a community, and develop the port logistics industry first, hold this piece of land in his own hands, and never sell a piece of land.

I remember that the Kwai Chung Container Terminal in later generations can earn billions a year. Although that was in the 90s and [-]s, it doesn’t mean that it didn’t make money in other years, it’s just that the earning is not so exaggerated.

The container terminal is also a container terminal. At this point in time, containers are still rarely used, and most of them are transported in bulk or packed in sacks with low labor costs.

"I think the previous plan has to be overthrown and re-planned."

Ruan Tao asked in surprise, "Boss, what do you think?"

Weidong and Ruan Tao had talked before, and they wanted to start real estate development in a few years. Now the land price is only more than 50 yuan per square foot. If you develop too early, you will not make money.

Right now, the Taikoo Dockyard is not to be moved much, just keep it as it is, but after the shipyard moves out immediately, we need to make a plan in advance, so we will come and see it today.

Why do you want to overthrow this plan now?

Wei Dongdao: "I saw a lot of container ships coming in and out at the docks in Los Angeles and San Francisco for unloading. They all use shore cranes to unload the cargo. The trucks can be pulled away as soon as they are pulled, and they don't need many workers to load and unload. Why don't we have any at the docks?"

Magery explained: "That is a container terminal. Our Taikoo terminal is a bulk cargo terminal, and there is no equipment such as shore cranes."

Next, I explained the difference between the two. After the design and construction of Swire Dockyard, it has always been a bulk cargo terminal. It had previously reported that it wanted to add quay cranes to transform part of it into a container terminal, but there was no follow-up after the report was submitted.

There are also container terminals in Tsing Yi and other places, but now the freight is still mainly in bulk, supplemented by containers.

Wei Dongdao: "That is to say, our Taikoo Wharf can also be transformed into a container terminal?"

Margery said: "Of course, the pier where the original fleet was stationed is now vacant. It is just right to renovate that pier first, purchase shore cranes to complete the roads and facilities, and some warehouses also need to be demolished."

Weidong thought about it. He had never heard of a container manufacturing company in Xiangjiang. Now that the container terminal is being renovated, should he also build a container manufacturing factory?
However, this matter will be explained later. Coincidentally, after the shipyard moved a part, the original production workshop made room for transformation into a container production workshop.

Moreover, the original fleet has no container ships and it is just right to sell them.

Since Wei Dong wanted to change the plan, today's inspection ended hastily, and Ruan Tao said, "Why do you want to change it to a container terminal again?"

Wei Dong said with a smile: "In the future, with the rise of labor costs, this bulk cargo method will be gradually eliminated. Even for the transshipment of food, liquid, frozen and other materials, there are corresponding containers. The shore crane can transport dozens of tons in one to two minutes. The containers are hoisted from the giant ship and pulled away by cars, which is convenient and quick, and of course we have a wharf to be transformed into a container terminal.”

Ruan Tao thought about it carefully, what Weidong said was indeed reasonable, as long as his own pier was slightly remodeled and a part of it was used to build the shore crane unloading area, anyway, the original plan was to wait ten or eight years before relocating and building a house. It's okay to spend some money to transform it into a container terminal now.

"That's fine, I'll find someone to make a plan and budget, and it probably won't cost much."

Wei Dongdao: "Also, haven't two of the shipyard's production workshops been vacated? You can find someone to buy a container technology, ordinary containers, as well as frozen and refrigerated ones, and those that can hold some special liquids. We also produce containers ourselves.”

Ruan Tao immediately understood Wei Dong's meaning. Lu Qingsong's dismantled and scrapped cars accumulated a lot of steel and was collected by Wei Dong. He couldn't directly make containers, but he could take out raw materials, and then he would buy some more. It is sandwiched inside for factory use, which can save a lot of raw material costs.

"I understand what you mean, such a business can be done."

Ruan Tao knows Wei Dong's supernatural ability, which makes things much more convenient. If Wei Dong doesn't know Wei Dong, he has to find a way to hide it from Ruan Tao.

The most important thing for the company right now is the production of portable electronic calculators. Intel has designed two chips, one for storing calculation programs, and the other for the calculation process. The second generation was launched.

Wei Dong asked: "Has the test of the electronic calculator been completed?"

Ruan Tao said: "It has come to an end, and the durability test is underway. The workers work in three shifts to calculate how long it can be used continuously for a long time."

"The test will tell me which chip is the most durable."

Before the test, Weidong copied and numbered all the samples. After continuous durability testing, the most durable chip was the sample copied by Weidong in the future. In this way, the product is the most perfect one.

After the production of the random access memory required by Intel is completed, the chip design verification of the electronic calculator is completed, and the production line can also produce products. Now the production line is still in operation, and the rest of the production line operators are still training. Besides, there is no need now. orders to manufacture.

Ruan Tao asked: "Didn't you say that chips are making money? I let the accountant do the calculations, and it doesn't seem to make a lot of money from producing them!"

Wei Dong smiled and said: "Your products have not been produced, just like our radios and calculators. The core is the chip on the circuit board. If there is no production line, you must find other manufacturers to entrust the production. Then the pricing power will be determined." It is in the hands of chip manufacturers, and a chip can earn several times the profit, if you want more, there may be insufficient production capacity to meet your requirements.”

"But let's say that the big profits are made by the manufacturers?"

"That's right, so we must have the ability to produce door-to-door accessories, otherwise we will be stuck, and we won't even sell you the chips."

We chatted about the company for a while,

Ruan Tao just remembered and said: "By the way, Ah Wei, there was news from Intel yesterday, saying that IBM refused to sell us hard disk and floppy disk production lines, but can only provide products."

Wei Dongdao: "It looks like it has technological advantages. If you don't want to sell it, you can't buy it. Since IBM doesn't sell it, we will develop it ourselves."

Weidong has samples of hard drives from later generations, and he just needs to take them out and study them to imitate them. He bought a production line just for show, and he will definitely not be able to produce the clumsy cabinet hard drives of today.

现在硬盘还是柜式机，长150cm高有172cm里面有50张磁片总容量只有可怜的5M，连一首mp3歌曲都放不下。

Many computers with such a huge hard disk cabinet cannot afford to use them. The system programs are all stored in the random storage, and they are gone after the power is turned off.

Only some large units have the financial resources to purchase IBM's cabinet hard drives.

Weidong intends to research modern hard disks and floppy disks first, occupy this market first, and try to build computers after the CPU is released.

Before that, he wanted to try his best not to disrupt the progress of the original computer industry, but later Weidong also figured it out. Wouldn't it be a happy thing if all the technology was in his own hands?

At that time, the hardware will be produced by itself, so how can Apple have a chance to develop?I also killed him with the advantage of cost.

In the last 30 to [-] years, the development direction of the computer industry and the communication industry, Weidong only needs to focus on these two directions.

Weidong entered the space when he got home, took a formatted 3.5-inch hard drive and disassembled it first, leaving only one disk, and used his mental strength to feel the sectors on the disk. Dong now wants to find a way to reduce this capacity, first erase some magnetic tracks to make it not so tight, and then use mental power to remove part of the magnetic substance on it, so that the capacity will be reduced after reducing the concentration of the substance.

It's very simple to say, but Weidong's operation is not easy at all. After damaging several samples, Weidong finally got a satisfactory sample.

Get out of the space, put the hard disk into an external hard disk box, connect it to the laptop, and find the hard disk after turning it on. Check the properties and it still has a capacity of 1T.

I patted my head, and I forgot to modify the firmware of the hard disk. Of course, I checked the information in the firmware.

Only then did I try to copy the small movie from the built-in hard disk to the mobile hard disk. At the beginning, the copy could be carried out smoothly, but in just a few seconds, a prompt of disk damage popped up, and the copy could not continue.

The first experiment failed without accident, but it seems that it can be copied smoothly at the beginning. It seems that after several more experiments, a hard disk with tens of megabytes can be copied.

The capacity of a hard disk cabinet with hundreds of kilograms is only 5M. Weidong can use a 3.5-inch hard drive even if it only has a capacity of 3.5M. It is already a huge improvement to compress the volume to [-] inches. It is safe to gradually increase the capacity in the future. The way to make money is to sell many versions less after it is in place once.

Just about to go in for the experiment again, there was a knock on the bedroom door, and Ah Zhen's voice came:

"Awei, why are you hiding in your bedroom in broad daylight?"

Weidong put all his things into the space in an instant, and came to open the door again. Ah Zhen looked at Weidong's whole body suspiciously, especially the ones below were the focus of attention, and only asked if he didn't find anything:
"You didn't hide in the room and did it secretly, did you?"

Wei Dong was so angry, is he the kind of person who needs to solve problems manually?

"What are you talking about, have you thought about it?"

"It's you who thought about it. It's Sunday and you hide in your room and play with yourself."

Wei Dong pulled A-Zhen into the room and pushed her behind the door, pinching her smooth chin and gently lifting it up. A-Zhen closed her eyes knowingly, and slightly opened her cherry mouth, waiting for Wei Dong to pick it.

After a while, Ah Hui's voice sounded outside: "Sister Ah Zhen, brother Ah Wei, come down to eat."

Only then did Wei Dong leave, and said softly, "Why did you bring the light bulb, Ah Hui?"

Ah Zhen smiled and said, "I can't come without bringing me, why don't you let me go?"

Wei Dong sighed, and replied loudly: "Come down immediately."

Only then did he pull out his right hand, and help Ah Zhen tidy up the T-shirt by the way, "We will continue in the afternoon."

"Bah, little rascal, I don't want it!"

Wei Dong led Ah Zhen down the stairs, and was greeted by Ah Hui's scrutinizing gaze.
"What were you doing in the house just now?"

Ah Zhen blushed, but Wei said calmly, "I'm asking for homework, can't I?"

Ah Hui muttered, "I'm too lazy to take care of your business, you can eat now, if I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have come."

Wei Dong smiled and said, "I didn't ask you to come, you came by yourself."

Ah Zhen pulled Wei Dong for a while, Ah Hui always joked casually, don't make Ah Hui cry.

Sure enough, the smile on Ah Hui's face disappeared, she lowered her head and said nothing, Ah Zhen quickly stepped forward to put her arms around her, and whispered a few words, Ah Hui gave Wei Dong a look, and walked towards the restaurant together.

(End of this chapter)