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Chapter 817: Opportunities brought by the canal crisis (fourth update, please subscribe)
Crisis is business opportunity!

It is precisely because of understanding the changes in the "Suez Canal" over the past decade and the series of crises it caused. Understanding that period of history and its impact on the world's shipping industry made Li Yi'an understand that this is definitely an unprecedented opportunity for the Nanyang shipbuilding industry.

As a result, Li Yian connected the true and false connections between the impact of the "canal crisis" on the shipping industry.

"Let's not talk about this first. From this point of view, this will inevitably lead to the "Suez Canal Crisis." Maybe the crisis will be resolved within a few years, but in any case, it will cause a huge blow to the world shipping industry. Even if the canal has resumed operations, but Oil companies have lost confidence in its reliability. There is a fierce debate between European and American oil companies over the safety of the Suez Canal and the expansion of oil pipelines. It is obvious that both the canal and the oil pipeline are easily cut off. There is only one alternative!”

As the shipyard manager, Zhu Wanzhe immediately understood what the "alternative plan" was.

"Using a tanker with a larger load capacity and bypassing the Cape of Good Hope route in Africa should be their only option."

Zhu Wanzhe, who was speaking in the direction pointed by His Excellency, thought for a moment and then added.

"However, ship owners generally believe that large ships are expensive, have too high fuel costs, and are difficult to build. The difficulty and cost of construction will double. Under such circumstances, they are unwilling to invest in building large ships."

At present, the shipping industry has different views on super ships, but it is generally believed that the investment in super ships is greater. The risk is naturally higher.

Zhu Wanzhe is naturally very clear about the thoughts of the shipping industry. Even when they built 5-ton oil tankers, they were taking great risks.

More than just big!

"Yes, that's right,"

"So, you need to explain them with facts, and this is where the market for supertankers will be in the future! This market is even bigger than you think!"

Japan has always been the leader in this competition. Because Japan not only built the world's first 57-ton oil tanker as early as 10, but a few years later they also built the world's first over 20-ton oil tanker, and then the world's first A 30-ton supertanker.

After the Suez Canal was forced to close, the huge amount of oil exported from the Middle East had to go around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa before reaching North America via the Atlantic or entering the Mediterranean to reach Western European countries. Therefore, at that time, countries around the world were competing to build giant oil tankers in an attempt to reduce transportation costs.

It’s simply astonishingly big!
During the years when the canal was suspended and closed, due to the rapid development of the world economy, the heavy chemical industry received attention. At that time, the price of crude oil was low - only two US dollars per barrel, which stimulated Western industrial countries' interest in oil. Demand, the world's energy structure has completely shifted from coal to oil, and the demand for oil in countries around the world has also increased dramatically, which has significantly boosted the volume of maritime oil transportation.

Li Yian nodded and said.

It is precisely because of its rich experience and the continuous construction of supertankers that the Japanese shipbuilding industry became the final winner in this competition and became the first choice of shipowners from all over the world. After all, when placing an order, people will first choose companies that have achieved successful experience.

During the Suez Canal suspension period, Japan and Western European countries completed an average of 59 supertankers per year, setting a record in the history of world shipbuilding at such a speed.

Although this supertanker race did not last long, it also made the Japanese shipbuilding industry make a lot of money. After all, it was a market of tens of millions of tons. Now that Nanyang has entered the supertanker track first, Li Yi'an, who stands on the shoulders of historical giants, of course plays the role of a "prophet" and makes Nanyang the biggest beneficiary of this competition.

After all, this is related to the industrial upgrading of Nanyang. In any case, the shipbuilding industry is a valuable industry. Even in the 21st century, even with cabbage-price competition from the great Eastern countries, the shipbuilding industries of Japan and South Korea are still tenacious. The existence of the industry not only has good profit margins, but also involves the employment of hundreds of thousands of people.

From an economic point of view, since Nanyang is founded on trade, it must make every effort to develop its foreign trade industry. Then it is inseparable from merchant ships. Maybe there will not be many people working on merchant ships in Nanyang in the future. The sailors are likely to be Filipinos, Malays, or even Indians. However, the tonnage of merchant ships in Nanyang must be far ahead. This is related to the transportation of goods to Nanyang. "National goods and national ships" is also a basic trade policy.

From a military perspective, Nanyang is a maritime country. In the future, whether it is the construction of aircraft carriers or other warships, a strong shipbuilding industry will be needed as the foundation. Only in this way can first-class warships be built.

Therefore, whether from a military or economic perspective, the shipbuilding industry is a basic industry that not only needs to be developed, but also needs to be protected. It must not be directly hollowed out like the United States. In the end, even shipbuilding , they were not built very neatly, so that later it was difficult to describe the quality of those warships.

"So, now we must use our current leading advantage to occupy this market, and then rely on this market to grow our shipbuilding industry. In addition..."

Li Yian thought for a while and said.

"There are also financial channels. Ships are bulk products. We must cooperate with banks and provide loans through banks to occupy the market. The profits from financial services may even far exceed the shipbuilding itself."

Many industries are complementary to each other, and the financial industry is also a key industry in the development of Nanyang. It can completely enter the international financing market with the help of shipbuilding, and then join it little by little, even with the financing of the future expansion of the Suez Canal and Panama Canal. Although you can't control it if you participate in it, you can at least get generous returns through these international financings.

Afterwards, Li Yian chatted with Zhu Wanzhe for almost more than an hour. It was not until the secretary reported that the Foreign Affairs Minister Li Guoren had arrived that Zhu Wanzhe stood up and left. Li Guoren's arrival did not bring good news.

It can be said that it is bad news.

"Your Excellency, according to reports from our ambassadors to Hyderabad and other states, in the past few years, with India's recognition of their countries and India's initiative to ease relations with states, in order to ensure the security of its own rule , they are also actively seeking to comprehensively ease and improve relations with India. Therefore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs analyzes that the situation in the South Asian subcontinent has undergone fundamental changes.”

"It's not just a change in the situation, but..."

Compared with Li Guoren, Li Yian has a deeper understanding of the intelligence of the South Asian subcontinent through Hydra's intelligence. It can even be said that the decisions just made by the countries will appear on Li Yian's desk within a few hours. Before, it was precisely because of this that he knew the situation in the South Asian subcontinent.

"A group of extremely naive guys were fooled by an old fox. Alas..."

Li Yian couldn't help but sigh.

"If God does evil, you can still violate it. If you do evil yourself, you will not live!"

(End of this chapter)