Resource Tycoon Reborn

Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. is already in dire straits at this time, not just because! Chapter.

The crude oil spill from the Shomaru oil tanker caused serious pollution to the coastlines of South Korea and Japan. It also caused large areas of the Sea of ​​Japan to be polluted, and it faced high claims from the people of South Korea and Japan.

But they never expected that just before the oil spill from the second Shomaru oil tanker had subsided, a new oil leak suddenly came to light in Indonesia in Southeast Asia.

And they never expected that the Surabaya crude oil spill, which was originally just a small accident and the leak was not serious, was actually covered up by the Indonesian side. After a typhoon, all the efforts made by the Indonesian side were in vain.

The strong suppression has caused a strong backlash in media reports now.

Many mainstream media around the world have focused their attention on the waters of Surabaya in Indonesia. People are paying attention to the clean-up process and the extent to which the ecological environment there will be damaged. Naturally, the second Yuxiang Maru oil tanker is also involved.

The leak incident has also been mentioned again and has once again become the focus of people's attention.

Everyone at Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. hates the Indonesian shipping company with hatred. If it weren't for them, the second oil spill incident from the Shomaru oil tanker would have faded a bit. As long as everything goes smoothly, it will be over after a while.

No one pays attention anymore. After all, people's enthusiasm always comes and goes quickly.

However, as a result, the oil tanker leakage incident of the Second Shoumaru, which had been somewhat downplayed, once again became the focus of the media.

And this is not the most important thing. The most headache for Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. is that, seemingly overnight, in East and Southeast Asia, calls to ban single-hull tankers from continuing to transport crude oil are springing up like bamboo shoots after the rain.

Yes, and it is developing and growing at lightning speed. Now, in addition to mainland China, even in Japan, there is a call for government departments to ban single-hull tankers from continuing to transport crude oil in advance, which has caused many people in Japan to

Transportation companies were caught off guard. As the world's largest shipbuilding country, and once the world's largest shipbuilding country, Japan's shipping companies naturally purchased most of the oil tankers in their own fleets from their own shipyards. As for the Japanese shipbuilding industry,

In the 1970s and 1980s, a batch of ships were crudely built, and a considerable part of that batch of ships are still in service with Japanese shipping companies. These are all oil tankers of high age.

Moreover, single-hull oil tankers account for a large proportion of the fleets of these shipping companies, including Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd., and most of those double-hull oil tankers are responsible for US routes. After all, according to the International Maritime Organization,

It is required that single-hull tankers will not withdraw from crude oil transportation until 2010, and some older ships can still operate until 2015. Moreover, Japan's economy has not been booming in recent years.

In addition, due to the Southeast Asian financial crisis in the past few years, the vitality of Japanese domestic companies has been damaged, so these companies naturally have to make careful calculations to squeeze the maximum value out of these single-hull oil tankers.

However, God is not as good as man. They never expected that the second oil spill from the Shomaru oil tanker would eventually turn into a storm targeting the single-hull oil tanker!

Ishii Jianshui now felt like a cat whose tail was set on fire but was locked in a cage. Although he knew that the danger was coming, he could not find a way to break it!

Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. can be said to be the first to bear the brunt of this storm. It not only has to face the high claims from South Korea and Japanese people, but also must find a way to deal with the ban in South Korea and Southeast Asian countries as soon as possible. If it is really like South Korea

In line with the requirements of Southeast Asian countries, Diamond Cruises currently has about 27% of its ships that will have to withdraw from raw oil shipping routes because they are over fifteen years old!

Twenty-seven percent, close to one-third of the total capacity of Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd.! Once such a large capacity withdraws from the operations of Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd., it will inevitably have a huge impact on the operations of Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. The most direct

The problem is how to continue to perform the many transportation contracts signed by Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd.!

In the face of bans imposed by governments of various countries, oil refining companies from various countries will naturally not jump out to go against the people and the government at this time. It is undoubtedly asking for death. Therefore, Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. must be satisfied to continue to perform the contract.

Government requirements.

If there is enough time, or if it is only for Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd., this is not too difficult. After all, the shipping industry has not yet fully recovered to the level during the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, whether it is Europe or the Americas, or even

Even within Asia, it is more troublesome to rent double-hull oil tankers, but it is not difficult to rent some single-hull oil tankers under 15 years old.!

However, most of the buffer time given by governments of various countries is only two or three weeks, and it is fully rolled out. It targets all oil shipping companies passing through their territorial waters and ports. This suddenly creates a big problem for Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd.

The problem is that if you want to rent a boat, you will face many competitors.

As a result, when limited ship leasing resources face many customers, the rental price will naturally rise accordingly.

The number of supertankers available for leasing is originally small, but Suezmax tankers, Aframax tankers, and even Panamax tankers have become hot commodities, and daily rents have increased by a full 60 to 80%.

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For example, Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. had to bite the bullet and rent a 50,000-ton product oil tanker for 120 days, with a rental price of up to 18,000 US dollars per day! In April, this type of oil tanker was in the leasing market

On the market, the daily rental price is only US$10,000, while its daily operating cost is US$8,000. In order to obtain enough oil tankers to supplement its transportation capacity, Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. had to send people to the Americas and Europe urgently to lease ships from there.

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But what they Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. thought of, the heads of other companies can naturally think of. So the competition is equally fierce.

The high rents determine that the profit margins of these transportation contracts will drop significantly, and may even result in losses!

But Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd. has to bite the bullet and rent it. Otherwise, the high liquidated damages are of course one thing, but the loss of many customers is the most terrible thing! Without these customers, no matter how many ships there are, there will be no more ships.

What's the use?

Therefore, every day, Ishii Mimizu's heart bleeds. Needless to say, in 2001, Diamond Cruises Co., Ltd., not to mention how much profit it made, was able to control the losses within an acceptable range. That is all thanks to it.

God has blessed me.

At the same time, the life of Fang Mingyuan and Guo's Shipping Group Company was not to mention how nourishing it was.

Originally, after Cui Taiyan discussed with Li Jianxi, the differences between the two parties were relatively large and it was difficult to reach an agreement. However, on May 8, when the news came out that the culprit of the Surabaya crude oil spill broke off and sank to the bottom, Cui Taiyan made a decisive decision and immediately responded.

Accepting Li Jianxi's somewhat harsh conditions, he successfully purchased six supertankers from the SK Group.

To this end, in addition to paying the ship purchase fee to Guo's Shipping Group Company, SK Group must also agree that Fang Mingyuan has the right to acquire SK Group's environmental protection technology in coal combustion at a reasonable transfer price. SK Group must also transfer WCDMA in its hands

Several key technologies were transferred to Samsung Group, and within a year, Samsung Group had the right to use two of the six tankers to transport crude oil for itself as long as it paid rent.

Although it seems that SK Group suffered a big loss, the share price of SK Group on the Korean stock market rose significantly on the day after the two parties signed the contract. By the close of trading, the increase reached 7%.

! Set a second record of daily increase in SK Group’s share price since the Southeast Asian financial crisis!

Moreover, on the same day, representatives from several other shipping companies in South Korea approached the person in charge of Kuok Shipping Group in South Korea and asked whether Kuok Shipping Group would continue to transfer oil tankers, or whether Kuok Shipping Group would continue to transfer oil tankers.

For orders from the three major shipbuilding companies, they are willing to pay high prices.

"Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., Ltd. has placed an order for a total of thirteen oil tankers of various sizes with Hyundai Heavy Industries. Samsung Heavy Industries has received orders for a total of sixteen oil tankers from four domestic and foreign shipping companies in the past two days. And Daewoo Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. has also

We received an order for fourteen oil tankers." Li Jianxi said with deep emotion. For the negotiators of Samsung Heavy Industries, these two days have been like paradise!

You know, in the past, when Samsung Heavy Industries signed a ship purchase contract, the two parties had to negotiate one by one on the ship price, construction time, ship configuration, materials, etc., and the negotiations lasted for dozens of times.

There is nothing strange about that.

In the past few days, the companies that came to Samsung Heavy Industries to order ships all brought with them a contract that had been drafted and placed it in front of Samsung Heavy Industries negotiators. It did not have any messy requirements and could be used as a template for a shipbuilding contract.

Come and use it! Except for the cost of the ship, the two parties may have a slight dispute, but the other party will soon give up.

In two days, sixteen oil tankers were obtained, with a deadweight tonnage of more than two million tons. This kind of beautiful thing has never happened since the establishment of Samsung Heavy Industries.

Fang Mingyuan looked at Lin Rong and Li Jianxi. Li Xintong's excited eyes showed helplessness.