Romanian Eagle

When the government announced the development plan for Eastern Galicia, it caused quite a stir. Many people smelled business opportunities from it, and Hawker Selder in Constanta was one of them.

As a smuggler who made a lot of profits by relying on the government in the war, Hawker Sard is now in the shipping industry. The ships under its name reach 13, with a total tonnage of about 100,000 tons.

Of course, this tonnage is not famous in the world, but with the addition of the ships of his friends and partners, he has gradually revealed his reputation in the world shipping industry, and now the ships running the Black Sea have not heard of his name. It's just that the Black Sea route is not among the mainstream routes in the world, but its proportion is also increasing year by year. In the near future, when Romania's economy develops, it is believed that there will be more ships running the Black Sea route, and his reputation will be resounding throughout the shipping industry.

But now Hawker Sard is struggling with an annoyance that the shipping industry faces a sharp drop in orders following the end of the war. It is true that after the war, the shipping volume of various countries did not decrease too much immediately, but a large number of transport ships belonging to the government were pushed to the market. This time, in the face of the surge of merchant ships, the order appears to be insufficient. As a problem faced by the entire industry, Hawke is of course not immune.

No, after seeing that the various shipping companies were in trouble, Hawke immediately held a meeting to discuss the way out for everyone under the current difficult circumstances. So on Rayford Street, where his shipping company was located, all kinds of luxurious vehicles converged here.

As the host, Hawke introduced friends and partners one by one at the door. Most of these people are well-known figures in the Romanian shipping industry. Their combined energy is enough to affect Romanian shipping.

"Everyone, the main reason for bringing everyone together this time, I believe everyone can guess. That is, the current shipping competition is too fierce and business is difficult to do, and we must find a way out for this."

After gathering the people together, Hawke Sylde took the lead in stating the purpose of the gathering. And his words immediately resonated with everyone present, and everyone immediately poured out their own suffering.

"Yeah, business is too difficult to do now."

"That's right. Many of my previous orders were robbed by the Anglo-French shipping companies that poured in. Damn, I asked later and the price was 20% lower than mine. Isn't this a plan to do business at a loss?"

"Isn't that true? Many of me have been robbed by these foreign shipping companies. Two ships are now empty, and the crew members are now without a living."

"You guys are not bad. I wanted to take this opportunity to expand the size of the fleet and bought three new ships. Who would have thought that my old customer, the steel mills, cancelled my order, saying that my freight was too high, and now the fleet Almost stopped. If there are no more orders, my crew will run out.

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Everyone was talking about their predicament. No matter how well-dressed they are, there are drivers who drive luxury cars when they go out, but no one has hundreds or thousands of people to eat with them. There are not enough orders to make a profit, and anyone can be eaten and bankrupt.

Hawke has been listening to their complaints, and after they finished speaking, he said: "In fact, everyone's situation is similar. The only difference may be that some people have a slightly better life, and some people have a worse life. But ask me Said that the current slump in shipping will not be able to improve in a short period of time.”

When Hawke said this, someone couldn't help but interrupted him and asked. "why."

Hawke, who was inquired, took out a document he had already prepared and said, "This is the information I paid for the investigation, which is the current reserve of existing merchant ships. The annual shipping orders, and Mainstream shipping prices.”

Everyone immediately focused their attention on the information in his hand, and after seeing everyone's thoughts, Hawke immediately took out many copies of the same information: "If you are interested, take it and study it, it is a small favor for my friends. ."

When Hawke's voice fell, his friends and partners were welcome, and they all picked up the information in their hands and looked at them. In fact, some people have entrusted others to investigate, but there is no detailed investigation by the Hocto people. It not only writes the tonnage of ships of various shipping companies, but also the annual throughput of major ports, and even estimates the next few years. growth in shipping orders and growth in merchant shipping.

From these detailed information, it can be seen that Hawke spends more money and energy than others, which can also explain why he is the leader.

After everyone had seen it, Hawke said, "Everyone has seen it."

"Um"

"Um"

After receiving a response, Hawke continued: "Since everyone has seen it, I believe that the most familiar one is the shipping price."

"Yeah, these foreign shipping companies are really amazing. They can actually do 0.6 lei per ton for 100 kilometers. I will lose for this price."

"The same is true for me. 0.7 lei per 100 kilometers per ton is the limit of what I can do. This is when I don't make money."

After listening to their speeches, Hawke continued: "In fact, our problem is mainly in the management cost. Before the war, because Romania's import and export volume was not large, and the shipping industry was very prosperous at that time, so we were able to It is interesting to live in it. But now there are too many merchant ships and the transportation volume is greatly reduced. In this case, everyone needs to reduce costs. For example, maintenance costs, and the number of crew members must also be maximized. In addition, fresh-keeping and office costs We also have to be extreme. That way we can lower our fees and compete with these foreign shipping companies.”

In fact, everyone knows what Hawke said, but it is not so easy to really want to cut these expenses. Not to mention the others, they are all familiar people and others have been busy for the company for more than ten years. It is reasonable to kick him.

From this, we can see the shortcomings of Hawke and others. When facing the downturn in the industry and the competition from foreign modern companies, the various shipping companies linked by family and fellow villagers are slow to adjust and have too much cost pressure. The shipping company that was present didn't start with the running boat. It's just that it was not convenient to care too much about obstacles and reputation before, and now it is not enough to not care about it.

Hawke's words told them, but now some of the friendships before facing life and death are completely irrelevant, otherwise they will die together.

"Then what are you going to do?"

"We all listen to you."

Hearing these two sentences, Hawke calmly said what he thought of.

"There are two options now."