I Want To Be a Rich Man on Hong Kong Island

After a week of acquisitions, Everbright Securities acquired 780,000 shares of China Gas, and the share price of China Gas also rose to 5.5 Hong Kong dollars per share.

After these weeks, Jardine Matheson's plan to hostilely acquire China Gas failed and came to an abrupt end;

Of course, this may be just a rumor, a rumor spread by who knows, and its purpose may be to hype the stock price.

After Wu Guangyao acquired 10% of the shares of China Gas, he did not propose to join the board of directors of China Gas;

On the contrary, they seemed to have forgotten about this matter, and the two big families of Wheelock were secretly convinced that it really was Sha Danyao who kept his promise!

Another spring of the year, Wu Guangyao once again proposed to buy ships at the Board of Directors of Universal Group;

At this time, the number of ships launched in global shipping reached 12 million tons, and the number of ships under construction reached 3 million tons, with a total load capacity of 15 million tons.

At this moment, the total load capacity of global shipping has surpassed that of Soviet ocean-going merchant ships, and is only lower than that of American ocean-going merchant ships.

With a private fleet, compared with a national fleet, this in itself is the qualification of a ship king;

Compared with big countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Japan, only global shipping has this qualification!

And Onassis, which is world-renowned, is only a ship with a deadweight of 4 million tons. The title of "World Ship King" is a bit inaccurate.

However, because Onassis has always been high-profile, even though he is over sixty years old, he is still full of energy and has constant news;

Onassis claims to smoke 60 cigarettes a day and sip black-label whiskey.

Western media always like to interview Onassis, but Wu Guangyao naturally rarely accepts interviews;

Even if he was interviewed by leaders of various countries and could not avoid interviews afterwards, Wu Guangyao's words were well-regulated, and there was no news exaggeration, so the Western media naturally gave up.

Because of this, Wu Guangyao's name is generally only known to people in the industry.

The two shareholders of HSBC looked serious. It was obviously difficult to accept another investment of 300 million US dollars to build a 2 million-ton ship.

Sanders said worriedly: "As far as we know, there was already a 10% vacancy rate of global shipping ships last year. After the subsequent launch of 3 million tons of ships, the vacancy rate will increase; if an additional 2 million tons of ships are added,

I'm afraid it will"

HSBC's worries are not unreasonable. The most incomprehensible thing is that Wu Guangyao has been in the shipping industry for nearly 20 years, but he has never cashed out a penny, and even invested tens of millions of dollars in the money he earned from zippers.

Doesn't he want to settle for peace?

He Yuanzhang took the lead in expressing his support, and said: "Mr. Sanders, you may have only read the account books, but did not go into the details of why we only have 90% of the business; it is actually very simple, 60% of the global shipping ships have chosen to sign long-term contracts. Contract, then the remaining 40% of short-term leased ships will naturally have vacant business; however, these 40% of short-term leased ships are more profitable than the same long-term leased ships.

What's more, the vacancy rate of European and American shipowners is much higher than ours, reaching 20-30%.

In other words, the vacancy rate of ships is something that every shipping company will have. "

Hearing He Yuanzhang's explanation, the second group of HSBC felt better.

Sanders continued: "The next 3 million ships will be launched, and the total load capacity of global shipping will reach 15 million tons. The business will be impacted again, and there may be a vacancy rate of about 20% by then, unless the company can Add new major customers”

HSBC wanted to cash out after all, which made Wu Guangyao feel a headache!

In Wu Guangyao's plan, 2 million tons will be built this year (1966). When the ship is built next year, HSBC may take the initiative to say that the ship is built, because the third Middle East war has also begun.

Wu Guangyao's goal for global shipping is 20 million tons, reaching the level of Bao Yugang in his previous life;

Of course, Wu Guangyao has three places ahead of Bao Yugang in his previous life:

First, Bao Yugang achieved it in 1978, but he himself was able to achieve it in 1968.

Second, HSBC accounted for more than 40% of Bao Yugang's global shipping in the previous life; in this life, HSBC only held more than 20% of Wu Guangyao's global shipping.

Third, Wu Guangyao was ready for the most profitable period of shipping (1967 to 1975), while Bao Yugang got up through these eight years.

After Wu Guangyao thought about it, he made a final decision without explaining too much!

"Sandas, after the construction of these two million-ton ships, Global Shipping stopped building new ships. Calculated in this way, our Global Shipping will have no loans in the first half of 1967. At that time, Global Shipping can bring HSBC every year. The profit is close to 100 million U.S. dollars, and the world's industrial development still has at least 15 years of development. Why rush to cash out for a while?"

Seeing that Wu Guangyao took a step back and gave a clear answer, Sundas stopped building another 2 million tons of ships, and felt satisfied immediately.

As long as dividends are expected, what is waiting for a year or two!

"Okay, it turns out that Mr. Wu has a plan, and we at HSBC have been worrying too much! In this case, we agree to the 2 million-ton shipbuilding plan."

Everyone is happy, although Wu Guangyao promised to build only 17 million tons, but when Suez is closed next year, HSBC may beg to let him build ships, so why worry about not being able to reach the goal of 20 million tons.

In 1965, Global Shipping's profit rose again, reaching as high as 380 million US dollars. If offsetting the shipbuilding payment and loans, Global Shipping only had 120 million in debt.

In 1966, the profit of global shipping was expected to reach about 420 million US dollars;

That's why Wu Guangyao said that global shipping with 17 million tons of ships will achieve zero debt in the first half of 1967

He Yuanzhang and Gao Ke came to Wu Guangyao's office.

"sit!"

The two sat on the sofa, seeing Chris personally pouring tea for them, both of them were a little restless.

"thanks, thanks!"

Chris smiled and returned to his seat.

"How many ships did Bao Yugang have?" Wu Guangyao asked what he was most concerned about.

Although Wu Guangyao, Bao Yugang, Dong Haoyun, Zhao Congyan, and Cao Wenjin would meet frequently to discuss the shipping situation, it was impossible to inquire about the total load capacity of other people's fleets.

Wu Guangyao also couldn't save his face, and made himself think of them as opponents.

He Yuanzhang and Gao Ke are different people, there must be a private channel to learn the truth.

Gao Ke said: "Bao Yugang is estimated to be 1.5 million tons, and Dong Yunhao is expected to be 2 million tons."

Yes, it seems that the global shipping led by Wu Guangyao has a great influence on Bao Yugang;

After all, according to history, Bao Yugang had at least 3.5 million tons at this time!

In this life, whether it is the support of HSBC, the business of Dongying, Europe and the United States, Global Shipping has seized Bao Yugang's opportunity.

However, Dong Yunhao's main business is bulk cargo ships and regular routes, so the impact is slightly smaller.