Homo sapiens.

Chapter 285 New Route

Li Guming's surrender put Xingdao under the control of Homo sapiens company.

Although Homo sapiens has not formally established a management system, Luzon, Siam, Hongshawadi, and Ceylon have officially started the merger process.

It is expected that on June 6, the official announcement of the Homo sapiens company will be formalized.

This marks that in the history of human civilization, the first giant company will be born on the earth.

But this kind of thing only attracted the great attention of the big powers and regional tyrants. Ordinary people and private companies are still busy with their own small circles.

For example, the world's major shipping companies at this time.

Especially world-class shipping companies in Asia, such as Evergreen International, COSCO Group, China Shipping Group, Neptune Emperor, Hanjin Shipping, Mitsui Shipping, Kawasaki Kisen, etc.

These days they meet almost every day, discussing the Straits of Malacca, the Lombok Strait, the Sunda Strait, the Kra Canal, and the Daung Weng Canal.

As an insider, the New Luzon Shipping Group has already sailed in the Kra Canal and the Dangweng Canal with transport ships at this time.

Consider security.

Many shipping companies have doubts about the Kra Canal, but they have no concerns about the Dangweng Canal, but the Dangweng Canal can only pass 3-ton ships.

In addition, in terms of geographical location, the Daang Weng Canal should actually be an inland canal between Siam and Hongshawadi, and a large part of the navigable ships are inland watercraft from the two places.

Therefore, the Kra Canal has become a shortcut that many shipping companies have to consider.

The first shipping company to eat crabs was Mitsui Shipping.

Mitsui Tomoshige, the speaker of the Mitsui Zaibatsu, personally spoke, asking the shipping company to let the tanker go to the Kra Canal to test the water as soon as possible. Anyway, Dongying people are not afraid of nuclear radiation.

Under the order of the head office, a tanker Kirishima with a full load of 20 tons slowly approached the west port of the Kra Canal.

The captain of the Kirishima, Aolan Mishima, was also in a panic.

"Captain, the canal management company has sent a navigator over." The second officer, Hirota Otake, shouted.

"You go and bring them up."

"Hi."

Two 10 minutes later.

Two navigators boarded the tanker and came to the cockpit.

"Which one is Captain Mishima?"

Hearing the Japanese with a Tokyo accent, Mishima Qinglan was very surprised, but he quickly replied: "My humble Mishima Qinglan is the captain of the Kirishima."

"Hello! I'm the navigator Meng Lin, and this is the toll list." The navigator Meng Lin said while handing over the toll list.

Mishima Qinglan hurriedly took it, and there were English, Chinese, and Japanese content on it. The single charge of the Kra Canal is calculated according to the displacement of the ship. It is 1 gold dollars per 4 tons. If it is less than 1 tons, it is 1 tons. calculate.

The Kirishima was fully loaded with 21.1 tons, and the total cost was 84 gold dollars.

For this fee, Mishima Qinglan said that it is acceptable, which is equivalent to only 8.4 U.S. dollars.

If bypassing the Strait of Malacca will increase the voyage by 1200 kilometers, the transportation cost will increase by 12 US dollars, and by bypassing the Sunda Strait, it will increase by 4000 kilometers and 40 US dollars.

However, Mishima Qinglan saw that on the fee list, the clause was limited to payment in gold dollars, and asked with a little embarrassment on his face: "Uh... I don't have gold dollars here, can I use US dollars or euros?"

"Don't worry, you can sign the bill of payment on behalf of Mitsui Shipping, and then Mitsui Shipping will pay our company gold dollars. If you feel that you can't make a decision, you can use the satellite phone to connect with your company's people." Meng Lin waved his hand .

Mishima Qinglan froze for a moment, then nodded: "I understand."

As for whether Mitsui Shipping will renege on its debts afterwards, Homo sapiens is not afraid of other people's repudiating its debts, and no one can rely on Homo sapiens' debts.

After a while, Mishima Qinglan finished communicating with the subsidiary head office, and he signed the payment slip.

Meng Lin put away the toll bill: "Okay, you weigh anchor and prepare to enter the canal."

Another navigator picked up the walkie-talkie and communicated with the management tower at the west entrance of the canal.

The length of the Kra Canal is 100 kilometers, and the waterway is divided into two.

At this time, the northern channel that the Kirishima entered, the two channels are actually only separated by columns and barbed wire in the middle, and the river is just one.

The West Exit Channel has a depth of 35 meters and a width of 200 meters. Even a ship of 30 tons can easily pass through a channel of this level.

Mishima Qinglan saw that many workers were installing navigation lighthouses on the embankments on both sides.

The Kirishima with a speed of 12 knots took 2 hours to pass the west exit loop, and at this time they entered the sunrise channel.

The so-called sunrise channel is actually an 8.4-kilometer-long nuclear explosion crater area. The channel here is not divided into two north and south channels, but a direct route.

The width of the river here is between 700 and 900 meters, and the water depth in the middle is 100 to 120 meters.

As the first foreign ship to visit Sunrise Lake, Mishima Qinglan saw a very shocking scene.

Within a radius of 10 kilometers, all the trees were completely destroyed, leaving only a small number of scorched tree stumps, especially in the area near Sunrise Lake, where a large area of ​​glass appeared on the ground, shining brightly in the sun .

grunt!Mishima Qinglan swallowed her throat involuntarily: "Pilot Meng, is there really no problem here?"

Meng Lin took out the Geiger detector and pointed to the value on it: "Don't worry! The nuclear radiation level here is much safer than Fukushima, it is 17% higher than that in ordinary sea areas, and it will return to normal levels in about a few months. "

"Hehe..." Mishima Qinglan smiled dryly.

Another navigator reminded: "Pay attention to evasion, don't cross the buoy in the middle, there is a container ship approaching ahead."

"Thank you for the reminder." Mishima Qinglan hurriedly pulled the whistle, and then stared at the channel.

When they sailed to the middle of Sunrise Lake, they encountered a 6000-standard container ship from New Luzon Shipping. The distance between the two sides was about 200 meters, and they slowly passed by.

23 minutes later, the Kirishima entered the channel at the east exit of the canal. This section is 52 kilometers long, divided into two channels, north and south, with a width of 200 meters and a depth of 33 to 38 meters.

Along the way, the Kirishima encountered many ships.

I also saw another channel being excavated not far away.

Mishima Qinglan was very surprised by the efficiency and planning of Homo Sapiens. In his opinion, the navigability of the Kra Canal at this time is already very strong.

However, he didn't know that without a separate double-track waterway, it was unqualified and unsafe in the internal standards of Homo sapiens.

And the excavation cost of Homo sapiens is also very low, there is no need to search for it like the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal.

Two and a half hours later.

The Kirishima successfully passed through the Kra Canal, which not only saved 1200 kilometers of voyage and fuel, but also reduced the voyage time by 60 hours compared to detouring Malacca.

In addition, the security has also been greatly improved. After all, there are pirates in the Strait of Malacca, and the surrounding area of ​​the Kra Canal is the territory of Homo Sapiens. If pirates come here to do things, there is a high probability that they will become soldiers.

After Mitsui Shipping Headquarters received the report from Aolan Mishima, it immediately made up its mind to change all its oil and gas transport ships from West Asia to the Kra Canal.

Now that the cost of shipping is soaring, the pressure on Japan's imports and exports continues to increase, which can save transportation costs, so what is a little nuclear radiation.

In terms of radiation resistance, other shipping companies are really inferior to the three shipping companies in Japan.

Other companies are very concerned about the nuclear radiation problem of the Kra Canal, and are worried that the ships will be contaminated by radioactive substances. They can only watch Mitsui Shipping and New Luzon Shipping happily sailing in the Kra Canal.

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