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Chapter 15: Foster's Call

“Woo woo~”

Not far away, a long whistle sounded, attracting everyone's attention.

A giant ship with a blue hull approached from afar, slowly reducing its speed, and finally stopped about a hundred meters away from Su Cheng's ship, horizontally.

Originally, the ship Su Cheng was on was already large enough, but compared to this ship, it was like the difference between a child and an adult.

In the absence of a pier, there must be a safe distance between large ships. A horizontal distance is fine, but a longitudinal distance requires an even greater distance.

However, the current calm sea is very safe.

“That ship is our group's VLCC. It is the first oil tanker to arrive in Hong Kong from Oman,” General Qi said in the cockpit, looking at the ship through the glass, and then explaining to Su Cheng.

“It's so huge. What are the parameters of this ship?” Su Cheng became curious.

The ship he was currently on had a deadweight of up to 50,000 tons, and he wanted to know how big the ship opposite him, which was much larger, actually was.

“This VLCC very large crude carrier has a deadweight of 250,000 tons and can carry more than 2 million barrels of crude oil. It is 338.95 meters long, 60.35 meters wide, and has a draft of 21.35 meters. It is not considered outstanding among VLCC very large crude carriers,” General Qi said with a smile.

“This is not considered outstanding?” Su Cheng was a little surprised.

“Yes, we previously ordered a 405,000-ton super tanker from Dongying, but because the ship's draft was too deep to dock in Hong Kong, and the focus of our group's development began to shift, we actually regretted ordering this super tanker,” General Qi said helplessly.

“A 405,000-ton super tanker? Do you want to take it over?” Su Cheng considered it.

However, with the impending shipping depression, there seemed to be no need to take over. He would take a look later, and if the price was right, he could take it over.

Anyway, the shipping company that was about to be established would not need to consider taking on external business for the time being. First of all, it had to meet the needs of its own companies, so the depression would have nothing to do with him.

Thinking about it, Su Cheng stopped thinking about it. Future events would be planned according to the actual situation.

Previously, during the period of world shipping competition, Baochuan King's Global Shipping Group ordered a 405,000-ton super tanker from Dongying Shipyard.

However, in fact, this was not the largest. In 1973, a super tanker with a single ship of 477,000 tons appeared.

By 1981, even the largest ship in human history, the 560,000-ton deadweight "Seawise Giant" oil tanker, had been built, with a full load tonnage of even 825,000 tons, known as ULCC.

At this time, some operators even began to design oil tankers with a deadweight of 1 million tons.

However, with the arrival of the unprecedented depression in the world shipping industry, the competition between shipyards and shipping companies in various countries around the world began to decline.

The 560,000-ton deadweight "Seawise Giant" oil tanker has maintained the record of the world's number one oil tanker, a situation that has not changed until the world Su Cheng traveled to.

At this time, a connecting boat came from the pier, and then towed more than a dozen oil transfer hoses back and forth from the opposite VLCC oil tanker to Su Cheng's oil tanker.

On the other side of the VLCC oil tanker, there was also a 50,000-ton deadweight oil tanker, the same as the one Su Cheng was on, being towed by a connecting boat.

“Most of our oil tankers are equipped with a series of complex oil loading and unloading systems, so even if it is transshipment, it is easy, but it just takes a little time,” General Qi said with a smile.

“How long will it take to unload these 2 million barrels of crude oil?” Su Cheng asked.

“It will take about 5 hours for two 50,000-ton deadweight oil tankers to transship at the same time. The oil tankers that arrive later will line up for transshipment. There is enough time in the schedule. If we are too busy later, our oil tankers can first dock at other crude oil terminals for transshipment. In short, Global Shipping Company will take care of everything for your Wentian Petroleum Company. We are professional in transporting oil!” General Qi said proudly.

At this time, in the rest room of the oil tanker, dozens of reporters were scrambling for windows, taking pictures of the giant ship opposite.

It is not that there are no VLCC oil tankers in Hong Kong. Some crude oil terminals in Hong Kong dock giant oil tankers of 200,000 to 300,000 tons almost every day, but the significance of this VLCC is completely different.

170 million barrels of crude oil, the amount of oil developed into various oil products is enough for Hong Kong to use for several years, and this VLCC is the beginning of this 170 million barrels of crude oil.

Hong Kong has never owned so much crude oil!

After witnessing the return of the first oil tanker, Su Cheng said goodbye to General Qi and Zhang Qizheng after a while, and left the oil base. Next, there was nothing to do here. He had no patience to wait a few hours to watch the crude oil being transported to the oil storage tanks, which was meaningless.

Next, he hoped that all the crude oil would arrive in Hong Kong smoothly from various crude oil producing countries.

In the evening, Su Cheng received a call from New York.

The caller was Judy Foster, who had intimate contact with him in England.

“Su, I miss you so much!” The first sentence in the phone was Judy Foster's longing.

After returning from England, Judy Foster called Su Cheng several times, and Su Cheng also learned that Judy Foster, who had returned to the beautiful country, was getting busier and busier because she participated in the filming of many movies.

“Baby, I miss you too,” Su Cheng said with a smile, and the romantic history of those days in England came to his mind.

“When can you come to the beautiful country?” Judy Foster asked expectantly.

“Let's wait for a while. You also know that I have a lot of business to do. Various things are waiting for me to deal with every day, or if you miss me too much, you can also come to Hong Kong to see me,” Su Cheng replied.

After a while, he was really going to the beautiful country, and there were still things waiting for him on Wall Street.

“Okay, Su, I called this time to tell you good news,” Judy Foster said happily.

“Oh? It seems you are in a good mood!” Su Cheng replied with a smile.

“That's right, yesterday I was a guest at Miss Linda Ronstadt's personal concert. At the concert, I sang the song you gave me, "I Will Always Love You", and it was welcomed by the audience. They gave me warm applause. Today, my agent sister told me that many record companies have started to inquire about me, and many media have also reported on me. I feel like I am on fire in the music industry,” Judy Foster said excitedly.

“That's really good news,” Su Cheng said with a smile.

“By the way, Miss Linda Ronstadt also specifically inquired about you, hoping to order songs from you. Price is not a problem,” Judy Foster continued.

“Order songs?” Su Cheng said in surprise.