Resource Tycoon Reborn

Fang Mingyuan sent Qiu Xia to the headquarters building of Guo's Shipping Group Company, but he did not go in with him. The convoy turned around again, but Fang Mingyuan did not choose to return to the Guo family mansion, but chose to go to Taiping Mountain.

Victoria Peak is a famous tourist attraction in Hong Kong. From the mountain, you can not only clearly see the scenery of Victoria Harbor in Central and Kowloon on the other side, but you can also overlook the entire Hong Kong Island from multiple locations! Various tourist facilities on the mountain are complete, which can satisfy the needs of climbers.

With various needs for sightseeing, shopping, and dining, it is a popular tourist attraction for Hong Kong residents and foreign tourists.

Fang Mingyuan got off the car at the foot of the mountain. Instead of taking the local cable car system, which has a history of hundreds of years and is quite famous at home and abroad, he chose to walk up the mountain. Seeing that Fang Mingyuan had no intention of chatting with anyone, Wu Xingguo and others did not move forward.

, followed him in front and back, not far or near. Since it was not a rest day or a holiday, although there were many tourists on the mountain road, the number was not too large. Fang Mingyuan walked easily. He has been exercising since he was a child, and every day

Zhou also has to arrange several fighting lessons. Although he usually doesn't have many opportunities to show off his skills, he is still very physically fit. There are no hills even 500 meters above sea level like Taiping Mountain, and there are smooth mountain roads.

, for him, it was just like taking a leisurely stroll.

Fang Mingyuan walked casually, sometimes stopping to admire the scenery along the way and the Hong Kong cityscape at the foot of the mountain. In fact, he had been thinking about the pros and cons of Kuok Shipping Group's entry into the cruise industry.

There are two main reasons for the opposition in the management of Guo's Shipping Group. One is that the bottom of the economic crisis has not yet been seen. The shipping industry is now at its lowest point since the last economic crisis. There is obviously a phenomenon of overcapacity around the world.

, although Guo's Shipping Group Company has already responded, eliminating and transferring a number of old ships, avoiding a large amount of idle capacity and avoiding the resulting losses. However, if the economic crisis will not be resolved in two or three years,

To be able to return to the growth track, it is very important for Guo's Shipping Group to ensure that it has sufficient funds on hand. Firstly, it can ensure the company's ability to resist risks, and secondly, it can also ensure the company's ability to continue to make mergers and acquisitions of peers to avoid future problems.

When M&A opportunities arise, they have to bear higher liabilities.

Another reason is that they believe that the construction of luxury cruise ships is a difficult technical task. Although Xiangjiang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., Ltd. is now able to independently build liquefied natural gas carriers, ultra-large container ships and super tankers, it does not

This means that a satisfactory luxury cruise ship can be built. For this, even in East Asia, there are already unsuccessful precedents. As early as around two thousand years ago, Fang Mingyuan cannot remember the specific time, the Japanese shipbuilding company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries once set foot in

Luxury cruise ships were being built, but a fire caused heavy losses to the shipyard and the unfinished cruise ship was burned to ashes. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced its withdrawal from the construction of luxury cruise ships.

The construction of luxury cruise ships is recognized as a technical activity in the international shipbuilding industry. Many people in the industry believe that the difficulty of its design is no less than that of building a warship! And compared with other commercial ships, the most difficult part of building a luxury cruise ship is actually not

The most difficult part of building a hull is the design and interior decoration of the ship! This is the key link for a ship to be called a luxury cruise ship. It requires first-class construction technology, unique cultural concepts, and taking into account different living customs! In order to

To meet the needs of its passengers, the interior decoration of a luxury cruise ship is equivalent to decorating a five-star hotel, and it must have all kinds of entertainment facilities and its own cultural concepts. Shipyards like those in Europe that can build luxury cruise ships

, all have their own design teams, and after so many years, they have already become proficient in this experience. However, Xiangjiang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., Ltd. has no problem building ordinary passenger ships, but it has no experience at all in building luxury cruise ships.

!Furthermore, the funds required to build a luxury cruise ship can range from hundreds of millions of dollars to more than a billion dollars. If such a high cost were to be spent on the hands, the loss would be too great for Kuok Shipping Group Co., Ltd.

Even though I have a profound foundation, I will also feel heartache.

Regarding these two reasons, Fang Mingyuan believes that they are reasonable. If luxury cruise ships are so easy to build, and Japan and South Korea are so developed in shipbuilding, how can they still not have the construction capacity? But he feels that since Xiangjiang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., Ltd. has

This plan should also be supported. With the rapid development of China's shipbuilding industry, if shipyards cannot build high value-added ships, the competition they face will be extremely terrifying. If the monopoly of European shipyards on the construction of luxury cruise ships can be broken, this will

For Xiangjiang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., Ltd., it undoubtedly has another trump card that can last at least 20 to 30 years.

Moreover, Fang Mingyuan also believes that cruise tourism will become a craze in China in the future, and Guo's Shipping Group Company does have the conditions and strength to fully participate in it. If it really operates, it will also be a success for other companies under the Fang family.

An opportunity to expand one's own business. Even if it fails for a while, this setback will not hurt the Guo's Shipping Group Company and the Fang family. And if it succeeds, the benefits will be great.

Moreover, Fang Mingyuan will of course take up the olive branch extended by the Pengcheng City Government. The construction project of the cruise home port will have an impact on the performance of Fang's companies such as Longxing Construction Group Company, Qinxi Airlines, Fang's Restaurant, travel agencies and hotels.

Moreover, as far as he knows, there is already a cruise port in Shanghai that started construction at the end of last year. If it can achieve good benefits in the future, it is conceivable that by then, many ports along the coast of China will

It is possible that similar projects will be launched. The opportunity to seize the opportunity is still very important. From a personal point of view, Fang Mingyuan is in favor of testing the waters in this industry...

Fang Mingyuan thought all the way, and soon reached the platform on the top of the mountain. Standing on the edge of the cliff, he looked at the city of Hong Kong under the sun on the seaside below the mountain, and the endless sea in the distance. Fang Mingyuan felt that his mood had improved a lot.

The heavy pressure that has been hanging around for many days seems to have been swept away!

The phone next to him rang. Fang Mingyuan took it out and glanced at it, but it was Yu Qiuxia calling.

"Mingyuan, I just got a piece of news here that I think you will be interested in." Yu Qiuxia said, "South Korea's stx group company just announced in Seoul that since the acquisition plan has been officially approved by the relevant departments of the European Commission,

It has officially acquired 40.2% of the shares of Aker Shipbuilding Group, the largest company in Europe, and has become the largest shareholder of Aker Shipbuilding Group. At the same time, the French government also announced that they own 100% of Atlantic Shipyard.

Thirty-fourths of the shares, and has one veto power on core matters."

"The Koreans actually succeeded?" Fang Mingyuan said in surprise.

Aker Shipbuilding Group is the largest shipbuilding company in Europe. Even if you look at the world, it can also be ranked among the top five. Aker Shipbuilding Group enjoys a high reputation in the field of building passenger ships and merchant ships. It can not only build

Large commercial ships can also build the world's top luxury cruise ships. In the European shipbuilding industry, Aker Shipbuilding Group can be said to have a very special status.

Before, Fang Mingyuan also heard the news that South Korea's STX Group Company was actively acquiring shares of Aker Shipbuilding Group. However, in his opinion, if the shares were not large, this acquisition would be a waste. If the acquisition of shares was enough to make Aker Shipbuilding

The change of the group company's major shareholder requires approval from relevant EU departments. This is not only because of the position of Aker Shipbuilding Group in the European shipbuilding industry, but also for another important reason, that is Aker

The Shipbuilding Group also owns 75% of the shares of the French Atlantique Shipyard, and the French Atlantique Shipyard can not only build large luxury cruise ships, but also build warships! Although the relationship between France and South Korea seems to be okay, the two countries

Both have a common ally, the United States, but this does not mean that France can allow its warship construction plant to be controlled by South Korea's Stx Group Company.

If Fang Mingyuan realizes something, it seems that South Korea's STX Group must have made some concessions on the Atlantic Shipyard. The French government has a veto power on core matters, probably because of the confidentiality issue of the warships built at the Atlantic Shipyard.

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"Yes, it took the Koreans almost a year to finally crack a hard nut. They became the pioneers of the East Asian shipbuilding industry in the field of luxury cruise construction!" Yu Qiuxia sighed, and made the request at Xiangjiang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., Ltd.

After building the luxury cruise ship, Yu Qiuxia had actually thought about whether he could achieve his goal in a roundabout way by acquiring a European luxury cruise construction company. Although the initial investment was quite large, like South Korea's Stx Group, just this hundred

It is said that it cost nearly one billion US dollars to divide about 40 shares. This was due to the impact of the global economic crisis, and the European shipbuilding industry was already on the verge of collapse, so it was a last resort.

But if the Koreans can successfully build luxury cruise ships in Korean shipyards with the help of the luxury cruise design and construction teams of Aker Shipbuilding Group and Atlantic Shipyard, then the money will be worth it!

The cost of a luxury cruise ship can easily reach hundreds of millions of dollars, and the highest can reach more than a billion dollars, while the cost of a container ship of the same tonnage is only about one-tenth of that!