Tower Defense Strategy

Country C is actively adjusting its structure to meet future challenges, and the whole world is also passively adapting to a planet with monsters.

According to follow-up surveys conducted by some well-known survey institutions, in the second half of January, global shipping contracted by 8% year-on-year. The strange thing is that shipping prices are actually rising sharply.

Generally speaking, shipping prices reflect the relationship between supply and demand. When prices rise, many shipping companies will increase shipping capacity and stabilize prices.

This is not the case this year. The cause goes back to the cargo ship Dali, which disappeared at the beginning of the month.

This is a transoceanic freighter full of 28,000 containers. It disappeared inexplicably while sailing through a deep sea route. This is what the news reported anyway.

In fact, after the routine response did not receive a response, a shipping group of country F to which the freighter belongs had already reported to the relevant department. A few dozen hours later, the country A spy satellite found its trace in the gap between clouds and notified country F.

What the country F did and did not discuss, in short, the ship was not towed back.

The breach of contract by Dali Freight directly led to thousands of lawsuits by the shipping group that it belonged to. The lawsuit took time, and the money had not been compensated. In the second half of the month, two more freighters were involved.

With tens of thousands of containers on a freighter, what group can withstand such a loss.

For a time, the entire shipping industry was turbulent, selling ships for selling ships, and outages, resulting in a serious decline in capacity.

But at the moment, except for country E and small island countries in the large and middle oceans, other countries are limited by the monster incident. The panic caused by the panic has caused the global freight demand to actually rise.

That's why the abnormal situation in which the price rises and the capacity drops.

Fortunately, the increase in shipping prices still maintained the scale of shipping, and the impact did not spread out for a while, and only certain price fluctuations occurred.

On the first day of February, the most serious monster incident occurred since last year.

The site of the incident was the Golden Canal between Central Continent and Heizhou. This artificially excavated canal carrying 10% of the world’s shipping was originally not very wide. As the size of the freighter became larger and larger, it became one-way traffic. It is a good thing for the country of origin, because the collection of river fees is more orderly.

The time of the incident was the same night as in Country E. The monster that caused the incident was called a starfish, a kind of weird monster with a shape between a starfish and an octopus.

The monster starfish has no mobility, but there is no small aquatic and amphibious monster that is more suitable for climbing cargo ships.

There was only one monster, but unfortunately, the ship invaded into the cockpit when it was passing through the canal, and the pilot was killed on the power pole, causing the freighter to accelerate.

The freighter waiting to enter the canal on the opposite side and the shore didn't know what was going on. As a result, a freighter was driven on top of the accelerating freighter, and the two freighters blocked a waterway.

The bow of the ship was on the side of the bow of the unlucky ship, and the stern shifted. Eventually, the propeller ran aground and shattered.

The bow of the unlucky ship was pushed to the shore by the accident, and the hull also turned sideways.

A total of 5,000 boxes of cargo were dropped into the sea by the two ships.

The monster on the ship in the incident was killed, and it was unable to move on its own because of the broken propeller.

However, the posture of the two accident ships was not very good. First, the first boat must be towed away, and then the second boat out of the ground, towed away, and finally the first boat can be towed away from the canal.

There are still a large number of containers and scattered cargo that need to be salvaged and cleaned up. It would be very dangerous for freighters to cross the canal before finishing.

The country where the canal is located announced its reputation on the same day to ensure that the canal will be restored to traffic within a week.

Everyone smiled when they were deaf.

This country said that three days would be six days, and that a week would be one month. Can it be done? Anyway, the queues and the freighters that are coming to the canal hurriedly left to find their way.

In fact, when the first wave of news was sent out, the monsters were not killed. The monsters were not flat on the ship. From the news pictures taken by the helicopter, it seemed that most of them had gotten into the cabin. In this case, give a definite time to resolve the situation. Who can believe that if there is a delay, the scope of floating cargo and containers will become larger, and it will be more difficult to solve them.

The current loss of the accident is definitely better than that of country E, and it can be regarded as one of the most important waterways in the world. The blockage of this waterway will cause 10% of the world's freighters to sail 7,000 kilometers more to deliver goods.

For this type of freighter carrying tens of thousands of containers, the freight cost for every thousand kilometers exceeds 300,000 A national currency, which is 2 million C national currency, and the freight cost of a ship can easily double.

The above is only the basic freight cost. The freighter does not have to travel 7,000 kilometers of fuel outside the basic route, and must find a port to call and replenish, which in turn involves berth rental and other matters.

However, not every port has enough water depth to receive these huge super freighters. All the ports in Heizhou, together, do not have the capacity to receive so many large tonnage freighters. After all, the ports are based on daily demand and the latest one to three. There are not many idle facilities that are expected to be built during the year's development.

Therefore, the freighter has to go to several ports in batches to refuel when passing through Heizhou. Once congested, it will further push up the price of the berth. If there are other accidents, it may even cause the freighter to stop at sea to buy black market oil. Is there no need to burn oil at sea?

The cargo ships that are already planning to pass the Golden Canal at sea, or coordinated with the harvester to relax the time limit and try to wait for the canal to open, or have enough confidence to directly request the consignee to increase the price and detour to deliver, and there are only one or two freighters in the canal queue. If you don't come, you can simply file for bankruptcy and liquidation on the spot, and the ship will be no longer needed.

The incident itself was a serious blow to the shipping industry, and the subsequent delays in the transportation of massive cargo and the increase in freight costs will continue to magnify the impact.

As far as this incident is concerned, Tuqiu's entire logistics system is really fragile under the impact of monsters.

Of course, the pot of this canal incident can also be given to the country involved. After all, the canal has been operated for more than a hundred decades, and every ship had to pay for it in the past. The canal is only so wide that the country in question can’t help it. blame.

Speaking of monsters.

According to subsequent investigations, the monster sea star that caused the accident was brought in by a freighter from another sea area.

The clever reporter interviewed the player and learned that this is a purely marine ambush monster that is unlikely to run ashore.

The Golden Canal incident has become a testament to the existence of more unknown monsters in the ocean.

Those who do news are not afraid of big things, but this kind of news is accelerating the shrinkage of shipping. It can be foreseen that more and more people in the financial industry are preparing to run off and jump off buildings.

According to the current trend, the collapse of international trade is not far away.

Thanks to the fact that the monster landing incident in Country C took a firm hold, it gave some people some reassurance.

And the next day after the Golden Waterway incident, Country G in West Central Continent also blocked a wave. Although there were more than 100 dead people, the monster group was wiped out on the spot.

The disasters of the two consecutive landing events have not expanded, and the fluctuations in the international market have stabilized again.

But who knows how many people are preparing to run away underwater.

In short, country C has started a new round of negotiations with neighboring countries to increase the capacity of the inland supply chain and make up for the impact of shrinking shipping.

Shipping has the highest capacity and the lowest cost among various types of transportation. The cost disadvantages of land transportation and capacity are placed there, and it is impossible to completely replace ocean shipping.

However, considering the emergence of small monsters, it may even lead to the collapse of the international monetary system. At this time, money is boring. The main thing is to ensure the supply of basic survival materials, fuel, and munitions for all parties involved in the industrial chain.

Speaking of fuel, country C has a new news.

Country C itself is a place with more coal and less oil. In order to avoid the external environment from affecting its national policy, coal liquefaction has always been a key project.

Only limited by the high cost of oil and gas produced by coal liquefaction, the application scale is not large.

After encountering the monster landing, he finally made up his mind to carry out large-scale expansion of the coal liquefaction plant, especially the plant in the mainland.

However, if the situation deteriorates too quickly, the rate of capacity expansion may not keep up, so we must also make strategic reserves at the same time. In this regard, the general public will need to cooperate.

In countries where administrative orders are greater than commercial activities, this kind of thing is not difficult to do. All car advertisements have been removed and replaced by public service advertisements that encourage the use of public transportation.

The rest is not easy to explain, for fear that it will cause panic, only let the people learn to save fuel spontaneously.

Compared with the efficiency of country C, other countries seem to be a bit overwhelmed.

In particular, the group in West Central Continent, including Country E, has been around for more than a month, and the discussion is still set aside, and no actual plan has been put forward.

In this situation, Bai Qing and her family are also shrinking their strengths. For example, her sister-in-law is also the kitten mother, and the share reduction of the foreign branch of the game equipment company has been on the agenda.

But multinational companies are not fools~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Everyone behaves similarly, but at the moment there are so many pickers in peacetime, and you can find leeks, but you can’t eat such a large number of companies.

Of course, Lao Bai's family has all received special education. Money can be released first, mainly to coordinate resources and keep more resources in the country.

For example, game equipment is manufactured domestically, and most of them are sold abroad. At this time, as long as the foreign quota is reduced under the pretext of hunger marketing and the purchase is restricted for a period of time, a large amount of materials can be stuck in the country.

Including various upstream companies in the entire industrial chain, the total amount of materials involved in three months can reach hundreds of thousands of tons. These things can be used for other things before entering the last plant.

It is not very useful for a company to do this, but if a bunch of real companies do it, the resources involved will be very large.

As for the negative effect, the monthly export volume may drop by eight to ten percentage points.

The officials also acquiesced that they did this, but they cannot say it clearly. Otherwise, if there are a few more pots of dirty water outside, everyone will lose mutual trust and want to intercept supplies, and international trade will be suspended on the spot.