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

According to follow-up surveys by some well-known investigative agencies, global shipping contracted by 8% year-on-year in the second half of January. Strangely, shipping prices are actually rising sharply.

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

This is not the case this year, and the cause can be traced back to the missing Dali freight ship at the beginning of the month.

This is a trans-ocean cargo ship full of 28,000 containers. It disappeared inexplicably when passing through the deep-sea route. Anyway, the news was reported like this.

In fact, after the routine response was not responded, a shipping group of F, the freighter belonged to, had reported to the relevant departments. A few dozen hours later, the spy satellite of A found its traces in the gaps in the clouds and informed F.

I won’t discuss what Country F has done, but the ship has not been towed back.

The Dali freight breach directly led to the fact that the shipping group belonging to the sea transport group had thousands of lawsuits. It took time to file a lawsuit, and the money had not been paid yet. Two more freighters had an accident in the second half of the month.

What group can withstand such losses if a cargo ship has tens of thousands of containers?

For a time, the entire sea-operating industry was in a panic, and the ships sold and the suspension of transportation were suspended, causing a serious decline in transportation capacity.

However, except for countries e and large, medium and small island countries, other countries are limited in impact by monster incidents. The rush to buy caused by some slight panic has actually increased global freight demand.

That is why the price rises and transportation capacity declines.

Fortunately, the increase in shipping prices has maintained the scale of shipping, and the impact has not spread for a while, only resulting in certain price fluctuations.

On the first day of February, the worst-affected monster incident occurred since last year.

The incident occurred at the Golden Canal between Zhongzhou and Heizhou. This canal, which was manually excavated and carried 10% of the world's sea transportation, was not very wide. As the size of the freighter became larger and larger, it became one-way traffic, which was a good thing for the canal country, because the charge of crossing the river fees was more orderly.

The incident happened at night like in the country E. The monster that caused the accident was called starfish, a strange monster with a shape between starfish and octopus.

The monster starfish has no movement power, but there is nothing more suitable for climbing freighters among the aquatic and amphibious monsters.

There was only one monster, but unfortunately, the ship where it was located was attacking the cockpit while passing through the canal. The navigator was killed on the power pole, causing the cargo ship to accelerate.

The freighters lined up opposite to enter the canal and the shore did not know what happened. As a result, the accelerated freighter pushed a freighter away, and the two freighters stuck a channel.

The head of the ship was facing the side of the unlucky ship's bow, and the stern was offset, and the propeller was finally grounded and broken.

The bow of the unlucky ship was pushed to the shore by the incident, and the hull also came to the side.

The two ships had a total of 5,000 boxes of cargo fell into the sea.

The monster on the ship happened was killed, but because the propeller was broken, it could not move by itself. After getting rid of the stranding, it could only be removed by a tug.

However, the two accident ships were not in good shape. Boat No. 1 must be dragged away first, then ship No. 2 must be allowed to get out of the strand and towed away, and finally towed Boat No. 1 away from the canal.

There are also a large number of containers and scattered cargoes that need to be salvaged and cleaned. It will be very dangerous for the freighter to cross the canal before finishing it.

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

Everyone smiled and felt their ears deaf.

This country says that it only takes six days for three days, and that it only takes one month for a week. Let’s talk about whether it can be done well. Anyway, the freighters queuing up and the freighters heading towards the canal will quickly leave and find a way out.

In fact, when the first wave of news was released, the monster was not killed. The monster was not flat on the ship. Judging from the news footage captured by the helicopter, it seemed that most of it had been drilled into the cabin. This situation was determined to solve the problem. Who can believe it? If you delay it, the cargo will be dispersed, and the container range will become larger and it will be more difficult to solve.

The current losses of the accident are definitely not as good as e-country. It can be one of the most important waterways in the world. The blockage of this waterway will cause 10% of the world's cargo ships to sail 7,000 kilometers more than they need to deliver cargo.

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

The above is just the basic freight cost. The freighter does not have an additional 7,000 kilometers of fuel on the basic route. He must find a port to stop and replenish it, which involves berth rental and other matters.

However, not every port has enough water depth to receive these huge super cargo ships. All ports in Heizhou combined have no additional capacity to receive so many large-tonnage cargo ships. After all, the ports have been built according to daily needs and development expectations in the last one to three years, and there are not many idle facilities.

Therefore, the freighter has to queue up to several ports in batches when passing Heizhou. Once it is crowded, the berth price will further increase. If there are other accidents, it may even lead to the freighter stopping at sea to buy black market oil for a day... Do you think you don’t need to burn oil if you stop at sea?

Freighters who have now planned to pass the Golden Canal at sea, or coordinate with the harvester to relax the deadline and try to wait for the canal to open, or have enough confidence to directly ask the consignee to raise prices and detours to deliver. There are only one or two cargo ships who are queuing up in the canal and cannot get out of the canal. They may simply apply for bankruptcy liquidation on the spot, and they do not need the ship.

The incident itself is a heavy blow to the marine operation industry. In the future, as the transportation of massive goods is delayed and the freight costs increase, the impact will continue to amplify.

Judging from the incident, the entire logistics system of the earth ball is really fragile under the impact of monsters.

Of course, the blame for this canal incident can also be given to the parties involved. After all, the canal has been operated for a hundred or more decades, and each ship has to pay for it. The canal is only so wide that the parties involved cannot blame.

Let’s talk about monsters.

According to the investigation of the incident, the starfish, the monster that caused the accident, was brought in from other waters by a freighter.

The smart reporter interviewed the player and learned that this was a pure ambush monster that was not very good at running to the shore.

The Golden Canal Incident has become the proof that more unknown monsters exist in the ocean.

Those who engage in news are not afraid of big troubles, but such news is accelerating the scale of shipping. It can be foreseen that more and more financial industries will be prepared to run away and jump off buildings.

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

Fortunately, the monster landing incident in Country C has stabilized, which has given some people some peace of mind.

The day after the Golden Waterway incident, the G country in Western Central also blocked a wave. Although more than a hundred people died, they also wiped out the monster group on the spot.

The disaster of the two consecutive landing incidents did not expand, and the fluctuations in the international market stabilized a little.

But who knows how many people are preparing to run away under the water?

In short, Country C has begun a new round of negotiations with neighboring countries, aiming to increase the capacity of inland supply chains and find the impact of the shrinking maritime transportation.

Among all types of transportation, the highest capacity and the lowest cost are there. The cost disadvantages and capacity of land transportation are there, and it is impossible to completely replace sea transportation.

However, considering that the appearance of small monsters may even lead to the collapse of the international monetary system, it is boring to talk about money at this time. It is mainly to ensure the supply of minerals in the basic survival materials, fuel, and military industry chains of participating parties.

Speaking of fuel, there is still a new thing in Country C.

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

It is just that due to the limitations of oil produced by coal liquefaction, the gas cost is too high and the application scale is not large.

After encountering monster landing, he finally made up his mind to expand the coal liquefaction plant, especially the factories in the mainland.

However, if the situation deteriorates too quickly, the speed of capacity expansion may not keep up, so strategic reserves must be made at the same time, which requires the cooperation of the general public.

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

The rest is not easy to say. I am afraid that it will cause panic, so I can only let the people spontaneously learn to save fuel.

Compared with the efficiency of Country C, other countries seem a bit outstripping.

Especially the group in Western Central, including e-country, has been around for more than a month, and has not yet discussed it at all, and has not yet come up with any practical solutions.

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

But multinational companies are not fools, everyone's behavior is similar, but now there are so many buyers in peacetime. They can find leeks, but they can't afford such a large-scale company.

Of course, Lao Bai's family has received special education, so they can put money on their own first, mainly to coordinate resources and keep more resources in the country.

For example, game equipment is made in China and most of it is sold abroad. At this time, as long as you use the excuse of hunger marketing to reduce foreign quotas and conduct purchase restrictions for a period of time, a large amount of materials can be stuck in China.

Including various upstream enterprises in the entire industrial chain, the total amount of materials involved can reach hundreds of thousands of tons within three months. These things can be used to do other things before entering the last factory.

It is useless for a company to do this, but if a bunch of physical enterprises do this, the materials involved will be very large.

As for negative effects, exports may plummet by 8 to 10 percentage points in that month.
Chapter completed!