Homo sapiens

Li Guming's surrender made the situation on Xingdao suddenly clear.

Although Homo sapiens has not yet formally established a management system for its local branches, its branches and subsidiaries in Luzon, Siam, Honsawady, and Ceylon have officially started the integration process.

It is expected that the formalization of Homo sapiens company will be officially announced on June 15th.

This marks the birth of the first giant company on earth in the history of human civilization.

However, this kind of thing only attracted great attention from the great powers and regional tyrants. Ordinary people and private companies were still busy in their own small circles.

For example, major shipping companies around the world at this time.

Especially in Asia, world-class shipping companies such as Evergreen International, COSCO Group, China Shipping Group, Oriental Neptune, Hanjin Shipping, Mitsui Shipping, and Kawasaki Lines.

These days, they have been meeting almost every day, discussing the Strait of Malacca, Strait of Lombok, Strait of Sunda, Kra Canal, and Tangwong Canal.

As an insider, the New Luzon Shipping Group was already sailing transport ships in the Kra Canal and Dang Weng Canal.

Consider safety.

Many shipping companies have doubts about the Kra Canal, but they have no concerns about the Dang Ung Canal. However, the Dang Ung Canal can currently only accommodate ships of 30,000 tons.

In addition, in terms of geographical location, the Dang Ung Canal should actually be the inland canal between Siam and Hongsawady, and most of the navigable ships are inland river vessels from the two places.

Therefore, the Kra Canal has become a shortcut that many shipping companies have to consider.

The first shipping company to take advantage of the situation was Mitsui Shipping.

Mitsui Zaibatsu's spokesman, Mitsui Tomishige, personally spoke and asked the shipping company to let the oil tanker go to the Kra Canal to test the water as soon as possible. Anyway, Japanese people are not afraid of nuclear radiation.

Under the order of the head office, an oil tanker Kirishima, fully loaded with 200,000 tons, slowly approached the west port of the Kra Canal.

Mishima Aolan, the captain of the Kirishima, was also in a state of confusion.

"Captain, the canal management company has sent a pilot." Second officer Hirota Otake shouted.

"Go over and bring them up."

"Hi."

Twenty minutes later.

The two pilots boarded the tanker and came to the cockpit.

"Who is Captain Mishima?"

Mishima Aolan was very surprised to hear Japanese with a Tokyo accent, but he quickly replied: "I, Mishima Aolan, am the captain of the Kirishima."

"Hello! I am the navigator Meng Lin, and this is the fee list." The navigator Meng Lin said while handing over the fee list.

Mishima Qinglan quickly took it over. There was one copy of the content in English, Chinese, and Japanese. The single toll for the Kra Canal was calculated based on the ship's displacement, 40,000 gold yuan per 10,000 tons, and 10,000 tons if less than 10,000 tons. calculate.

The Kirishima's full load was 211,000 tons, and the total cost was 840,000 gold dollars.

Regarding this fee, Mishima Aolan said that it was acceptable, and it was only equivalent to US$84,000.

Detouring through the Strait of Malacca will add 1,200 kilometers to the voyage and increase transportation costs by US$120,000, while detouring through the Sunda Strait will add 4,000 kilometers and US$400,000.

But when Mishima Aolan saw the clause on the fee list that only gold dollars could be used for payment, he asked with some embarrassment: "Uh... I don't have gold dollars here. Can I use U.S. knives or euros?"

"Don't worry, you can sign the payment bill on behalf of Mitsui Shipping, and Mitsui Shipping will pay the gold yuan to our company. If you feel that you can't make a decision, you can use a satellite phone to contact someone in your company." Meng Lin waved his hand. .

Mishima Qinglan was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "I understand."

As for whether Mitsui Shipping will default on its debts afterwards, Homo sapiens is not afraid of others defaulting on its debts, and no one can rely on Homo sapiens' debts.

After a while, Mishima Qinglan completed the communication with the head office and signed the payment form.

Meng Lin put away the payment slip: "Okay, you lift anchor and prepare to enter the canal."

Another pilot picked up the walkie-talkie and communicated a few words with the management tower at the west entrance of the canal.

The Kra Canal is 100 kilometers long and divided into two channels.

At this time, the northern channel that the Kirishima entered was actually separated by pillars and barbed wire between the two channels. It was just one river channel.

The west entrance channel has a depth of 35 meters and a width of 200 meters. Even ships of 300,000 tons can easily pass through this level of channel.

Mishima Qinglan saw many workers installing navigation lighthouses on both sides of the embankments.

The Kirishima, with a speed of 12 knots, took 2 hours to pass the west exit return channel. At this time, they entered the sunrise channel.

The so-called sunrise channel is actually an 8.4-kilometer-long nuclear explosion crater area. The channel here is not divided into two, north and south, but one direct channel.

The width of the river here is between 700 and 900 meters, and the water depth in the middle is 100 to 120 meters.

As the first foreign ship to visit Sunrise Lake, Mishima Aolan saw a very shocking scene.

All the trees within a radius of 10 kilometers have been destroyed, leaving only a small number of blackened tree stumps. Especially in the area near Sunrise Lake, large areas of glass appear on the ground, shining in the sun. .

Gulu! Mishima Qinglan swallowed involuntarily: "Navigator Meng, is there really no problem here?"

Meng Lin took out the Geiger detector and pointed at the value on it: "Don't worry! The nuclear radiation level here is much safer than Fukushima, it is 17% higher than in ordinary sea areas, and it will return to normal levels in a few months. "

"Haha..." Mishima Qinglan laughed dryly.

Another pilot reminded: "Pay attention to avoidance and do not cross the middle buoy. There is a container ship approaching in front."

"Thanks for the reminder." Mishima Qinglan quickly blew the whistle and then stared at the channel.

Sailing to the middle of Sunrise Lake, they encountered a 6000 standard container ship from New Luzon Shipping. The two sides were about 200 meters away and passed by each other slowly.

Twenty-three minutes later, the Kirishima entered the east entrance channel of the canal. This section is 52 kilometers long, divided into two channels, north and south, with a width of 200 meters and a depth of 33 to 38 meters.

Along the way, the Kirishima encountered many ships.

We also saw another channel being dug not far away.

Mishima Aolan was very surprised by the efficiency and planning of the Homo sapiens company. In his opinion, the navigation capacity of the Kra Canal at this time was already very strong.

However, he did not know that without separate double-track channels, according to the internal standards of the Homo sapiens company, it was unqualified and unsafe.

The cost of excavation by Homo sapiens is also very low, and there is no need to search like the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal.

Two and a half hours later.

The Kirishima successfully passed through the Kra Canal, which not only saved 1,200 kilometers of voyage and fuel, but also reduced the sailing time by 60 hours compared to the detour to Malacca.

In addition, security has also been greatly improved. After all, there are pirates in the Strait of Malacca, and the surrounding areas of the Kra Canal are managed by branches of Homo sapiens. If pirates come to cause trouble here, they will most likely become soldiers.

After receiving the report from Mishima Seiran, Mitsui Shipping Headquarters immediately made up its mind to divert all its own transport ships transporting oil and natural gas from West Asia to the Kra Canal.

Now that shipping costs are soaring, the pressure on Japan's imports and exports continues to increase. Transportation costs can be saved, but a little nuclear radiation is nothing.

In terms of radiation resistance, other shipping companies are really not as good as Japan's three shipping companies.

Other companies are very concerned about the nuclear radiation problem in the Kra Canal and worry that their ships will be contaminated by radioactive materials. They can only watch Mitsui Marine and New Luzon Shipping happily sailing in the Kra Canal.

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