Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 175 Why reduce the ship landing?
Xiangjiang area, Rong family villa.

"In 1963, I just bought the fourth boat. Because the shipping business started to prosper, some customers were very anxious to rent a boat from me, so I tried every means to buy this boat."

"But because I bought the third boat not long ago, I didn't have enough funds at that time, so I didn't buy insurance for this boat in time."

Alright, speaking of this, Zhao Wenmu has roughly guessed the following plot.

Shortly after the ship was delivered to the customer, it sank in a storm at sea.

And the main reason for the sinking of the ship is the illegal operation of the crew.

After cleaning the ship, the crew forgot to close the intake hatch at the bow of the ship, which was just big enough to cover the bow.

When a ship sails at sea, it rises and falls with the waves, so sometimes the bow of the ship will be submerged in the water, or in the high waves.

This is normal.

Of course not the entire hull submerged in the water.

Every time the bow of the ship sinks into the waves, tens to hundreds of tons of seawater will wash up, and the huge water pressure will pour a large amount of seawater into the airtight cabin of the bow that should be sealed.

At that time, it was late at night, and the crew on duty did not find out in time that the attitude of the ship had gradually become abnormal.

When the problem was finally discovered, everything was irreversible.

Subsequent investigations confirmed that at least 5000 tons of seawater were poured into the ship at that time.

For a supertanker with a load capacity of 12 tons, 5000 tons was originally just a small number, but that was for the cargo warehouse.

Rather than the bow watertight compartment.

This greatly disrupts the ship's balance and structural pressure distribution.

In the end, under the impact of another big wave, the bow and the hull of the ship broke directly, and the whole ship quickly sank into the water in an extremely tragic state of cutting in half.

The only good news is that most of the crew members escaped in time by abandoning the ship in lifeboats.

Or, more fortunately for a shipowner, the ship was empty at the time.

Otherwise, he still needs to pay for the 12 tons of oil.

Most importantly, the cleanup of the 12 tons of oil pollution to the ocean will be an astronomical sum.

Unfortunately, the crew were all dispatched by Rong's Shipping Company.

"The shipping company was judged to be fully responsible for that accident."

Rong Ren said quietly.

"The most important thing is that the company has no other ships. Although breaching the contract with customers does not require a lot of compensation, it will cause great losses to customers. After all, their business cannot be carried out without ships."

"That time I sold all my family property and other properties, and your aunt even sold her wedding ring. Finally, I raised funds to buy a new boat and deliver it to the customer, and the matter finally passed."

It had to be said that Rong Renyi was indeed courageous.

At that time, he could also choose to breach the contract, at worst, lose some money. I believe this is definitely a drizzle compared with the cost of buying a new boat.

But a breach of contract will chill the hearts of customers.

No one can stand without trust, especially a businessman. If he breaks the contract, the reputation of Rong's Shipping Company may never be restored.

"A misfortune is a blessing, and a blessing is a misfortune. The accident of Rong's shipping was a blessing in disguise, and it was widely recognized by the market. The shippers are more willing to rent my ship, and even willing to pay part of the money in advance."

"With this part of the funds, using it to leverage large loans from HSBC, the shipping company was able to expand rapidly."

Rong Ren chuckled.

The ancients often say that suffering is a blessing, sincerity does not deceive me.

"Uncle Rong, it's your charisma that has convinced everyone. Customers trust Rong's Shipping, and they can do business with you with confidence!"

Zhao Jing was deeply touched by Rongren's wife selling the ring. She put herself in the shoes and imagined that if Zhao Wenmu was in trouble, she would definitely give up everything to support him without hesitation.

"Uncle Rong, why is the Rong family so active in reducing ships to land? Although the oil crisis has indeed had a great impact on the shipping business, as far as I know, Global Shipping has sold a lot of ships before that, right? How about continuing to sell ships on a large scale?"

In the 70s, the world encountered an oil crisis. Due to certain geopolitical factors, oil production was greatly reduced, resulting in countless ships having no business to do and staying in ports for a long time.

Many shipping companies went bankrupt as a result.

Global Shipping had already disposed of a large number of tankers before this, so it hardly suffered too much loss.

In hindsight, the decision of the Rong family to reduce their ships and land was indeed very wise, but Zhao Wenmu was still very curious about why Rong Renyi and his son made this decision.

After all, Rong Ren has been dealing with shipping for half of his life, and he suddenly abandoned the ship drastically. There must be a deeper reason for this drastic change.

"Amu, Global Shipping sold a large number of ships in the past few years. To tell you the truth, one of the reasons is that Abang and I had a premonition that there would be oil problems. There are some friends in the Federation and the Beautiful Country, and they have been informed in advance that the war may start at any time."

Rong Renichi's "some friends" probably won't have a low rank.

Therefore, before the conflict broke out, Rong Renyi had basically determined that the probability of war was inevitable.

Based on the premise that the war is inevitable, combined with the principle that the beautiful country must support Israel, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion:
The beautiful country wants to fight against the local tyrants in the Middle East.

Naturally, it is inevitable that the followers of the beautiful country will fight against the local tyrants.

The chiefs in the Middle East are unable to retaliate against the beautiful country at the military and political levels. The only weapon they can use is oil.

This war is bound to be bound up with the oil crisis.

The oil crisis will inevitably lead to a depression in shipping.

These series of propositions are natural, and the logic is smooth and flawless.

Afterwards, it proved that the plot did advance in this way.

The oil crisis prompted Britain to develop North Sea oil fields, and the beautiful country to redevelop its own oil fields.At the same time, oil fields in Asia and Latin America have been put into production one after another.

As the world's reliance on Middle East oil dwindles, more and more tankers are being idled.

"Another reason is that Shen Bi replaced Pittman as the head of HSBC Bank."

As soon as Rong Ren finished speaking, he patted the table casually and looked at Zhao Wenmu.

Zhao Wenmu understood, the boss is trying to teach himself.

"Shen Bi is a new official, and if he wants to establish his prestige and frighten everyone, the easiest way is to hold Uncle Rong?"

he tried to ask.

"On the one hand, Shen Bi wanted to establish his prestige, but on the other hand, he was really not optimistic about the shipping business. So HSBC stopped granting me new loans, and even secretly asked Global Shipping to repay the previous loan as soon as possible."

This time it was Rong Zhenbang who explained.

He went on to say:

"Shen Bi wanted to push his father out of the HSBC board of directors, but his father resisted the pressure, quickly sold the tanker, and further increased his holdings in HSBC."

"To a certain extent, Shen Bi is also a nobleman of the Rong family, haha!"

Indeed, Shen Bi's method of suppressing the Rong family, on the contrary, pushed the Rong family away from the tanker business depression caused by the oil crisis.

The Rong family is indeed a family with great luck.

"Uncle Rong, why are you continuing to sell ships now? Global Shipping doesn't have many ships in hand right now?"

Zhao Wenmu continued to ask.

(End of this chapter)