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Chapter 179 The Fuguang Incident

Chensheng Technology currently has two main products, arc light cars and companion robots.

As for other large silicon wafers, the new Ebola virus vaccine, various new energy auto parts, etc., they are not the main business of Chensheng Technology, at most they are a side business.

Even today's Chensheng Technology is a leading company in the large silicon wafer industry.

After all, compared with Arclight Automobile and robotics business, the revenue of Chensheng Technology's other businesses is really nothing, less than a fraction of Arclight Automobile's annual revenue.

Although Arclight cars and companion robots are high value-added products, there is one thing that they are large-scale products, and most of them are exported abroad.

Therefore, the transportation problem of overseas trade is the top priority.

In the initial stage of business, Chensheng Technology chose to cooperate with the shipping giant Maersk Group.

But with the establishment of the Huanyu Trading Company, all these businesses were handed over to the Huanyu Trading Company to take care of.

You know, Chensheng Technology is a super big customer.

Last year, Chensheng Technology's foreign trade vehicles reached nearly 2000 million vehicles, of which more than 80% were exported.

What is this concept?
In other words, Huanyu Trade needed to ship more than 500 million cars to all parts of the world last year.

In addition, Chensheng Technology also needs to import various parts from non-core parts suppliers around the world. As the first party, Chensheng Technology appoints the other party to use the transportation of Huanyu Trading Company.

It's also a huge business.

In order to meet business needs, Huanyu Trading Company, which was established less than two years ago, expanded wildly and ordered ocean-going cargo ships from major ocean-going shipbuilding companies around the world.

At present, the entire Huanyu Trading Company owns 30 ultra-large ocean-going freighters of more than 21 tons, 20 large ocean-going freighters of more than 34 tons, and 107 freighters of more than [-] tons.

It can be said that in order to build this super ocean-going fleet, Qin Ruolan almost used up all the funds that the Lu Chen family trusted.

If it wasn't for Lu Chen making money faster, he wouldn't be able to afford the funds to build this fleet.

Don't forget, the Huanyu Department is not only a Huanyu Trading Company, but also a Huanyu Agricultural Company that ranks first in Africa. For this company, Lu Chen has spent more resources.

The investment in Kanya's infrastructure projects alone exceeded hundreds of billions of Xia Yuan.

Of course, in terms of shipping scale, Huanyu Trading Company, which has 162 large ocean-going cargo ships, is definitely not the largest shipping company in the world.

At present, Maersk Group, the world's number one shipping company, has a total of more than 500 container ships with more than 200 million containers.

Of course, it is impossible for Maersk Group's freighter to be as crazy as Huanyu Trading Company, with a base of [-] tons and no limit.

Therefore, in terms of carrying capacity, Huanyu Trading Company is not much weaker than the other party.

The real gap between the two sides lies in the global ports.

Maersk Group was established in 1904, and its routes cover ports in more than 130 countries, with more than 600 ports. In this regard, Huanyu Trading Company, which was established less than two years ago, is far from being comparable to the other party.

So far, the ports covered by Huanyu Trading Company are only distributed in 37 countries, with only 139 ports.

Of course, in terms of scale, Huaguo COSCO is the largest in the world, with a total fleet of more than 150 ships covering more than 1800 ports in more than [-] countries, which can be called abnormal.

The reason why Huaguo COSCO is still ranked behind Maersk Group is because it cannot compare with the other party in terms of global shipping market share.

Of course, neither the Maersk Group nor the Huaguo Ocean Company is comparable to the newly established Huanyu Trading Company.

Perhaps Huanyu Trading Company's funds are not bad, but the foundation of this thing still needs time to accumulate.

Just like the Fuguang incident this time.

The Fuguang is one of the 21 ultra-large ocean-going freighters owned by Huanyu Trading Company.

As a super-large freighter with a cargo capacity of more than 30 tons, the Fuguang can be described as a super giant at sea. Even the Ford-class aircraft carrier is a younger brother in terms of size.

Fuguang is 374 meters long, taller than Wenming Building, and 57 meters wide.

When it is full of goods, it is more than 60 meters high, which is almost equivalent to a 12-story office building.

In the past, Fuguang, as a freighter for transporting companion robots, should have traveled to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope.

Because it is too big, it is not suitable for the route of the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

But just the year before.

The work of widening the waterway of the Suez Canal has been completed again, so that it can pass ultra-large freighters of more than 30 tons.

Now, the Suez Canal is even more lively.

The Fuxing also chose to take the Suez Canal to Europe, after all, this road is much closer.

However, while the Suez Canal route is prosperous, it also has a flaw.

That is to take this route, which will pass through the Gulf of Aden Strait.

The Gulf of Aden is a stretch of water in the Arabian Sea between Yemen and Somalia.

That's right, when it comes to Somalia, everyone can't help but think of a term, Somali pirates.

Pirates, as a profession that arose along with maritime shipping, still exist today. It has to be said that they are very "capable".

Because today's pirates are different from those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they have kept pace with the times.

Today's pirates have already carried out corporate management, and hijacking cargo ships to pay ransoms is just their trivial business. The real meaning of their existence is to provide an excuse for major countries to maintain military power in the Gulf of Aden Strait.

Otherwise, the little pirates would have been wiped out long ago in today's era of satellites flying all over the sky.

Therefore, the seemingly vicious pirates are actually the masters of watching the dishes off the ship.

For example, the Maersk Group, which is backed by the world's largest navy, has never been hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

Another example is the ships of Huaguo, whose navy is constantly rising, and the pirates are gradually afraid to attack it.

As for those ships that are not capable of "escorting" countries in the ocean, sorry, the tolls that should be paid still have to be paid.

Fuguanghao is a typical example.

Because the territory of the Universal Trading Company is Kanya.

As we all know, Kannya has no navy.

Such objects are the best targets for pirates.

The point is, a 30-ton freighter is a super big job for pirates.

Therefore, in order to hijack this freighter, a certain well-known pirate located in the Gulf of Aden almost came out with all his strength.

A total of more than 30 speedboats surrounded the huge ship Fuguang like flies.

Some people may wonder how a cargo ship larger than an aircraft carrier could be hijacked by a speedboat.

In fact, their specific process of hijacking the freighter is as follows: first drive the speedboat close to the freighter, then install the bomb, and then shout out after installing the bomb, and blow your ship through without stopping.

The structure of the freighter is incomparable to that of a warship, and these pirates hijack the cargo ship all the year round, so they know where the weak point of the cargo ship is.

As a result, a cargo ship with a cargo capacity of more than 30 tons was hijacked by a group of pirates in such a humiliating manner. Together with the 27 employees of the Huanyu Trading Company on the cargo ship, they all became hostages of the pirates.

Because the tonnage of the hijacked Fuguang was too huge, it also made international news.

The Chinese media, including those in China, are reporting on the hijacking of the freighter Fuguang by Somali pirates.

(End of this chapter)