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Novi, the capital is Oslo.

The Nordic man with a pipe in his hand sat on the boss's chair, frowning slightly as he read a piece of news handed over by his subordinates.

John Frederiksen first entered a shipping brokerage company and started working alone at the age of 27.

In the 1980s, his tanker took risks to transport oil during the Iran-Iraq war and made huge profits, earning him his "first pot of gold."

Today, he is the largest tanker owner in the world, owning more than 70 tankers, mainly engaged in the shipping and logistics industry, and is known as the "Ship King" of Novi.

Ranked 129th on the 2018 Forbes Global Billionaires List!

"Bincheng Shipyard has resumed work? Is the news accurate?"

"It has been confirmed, the information is accurate!"

"Oh? It's not that they have a funding gap of more than 2 billion. How did they raise it in such a short period of time?"

"I heard that a company called Baiyeji invested a total of 3 billion RMB to buy the eight oil tankers." Shixiahui reported.

"Hmm? 3 billion?"

When he heard that eight oil tankers were bought by others for a high price of 3 billion, John frowned.

Regardless of the original 6 billion contract, the other party now only paid 3 billion to get it, but considering the current market for new oil tankers, this is already considered a high price.

Anyone who dares to take over now can definitely be called a warrior!

Due to the OPEC production reduction agreement, the economic crisis, and the current downturn in the tanker freight market, major shipping companies have suffered huge losses this year, and even his company is no exception.

Only in his position can he feel the harsh winter of the industry more clearly.

Almost all major consulting firms around the world predict that the industry will become increasingly depressed in the next few years.

Major international shipowners are afraid that oil tankers will fall on their hands, so how can they dare to buy new ships?

This has resulted in a large number of new ships being destroyed and a large number of old ships being scrapped.

Mainstream players in the market are desperately trying to reduce their own oil transportation capacity.

Even John, the shipping king, took 10 old ships in his hands to the dismantling plant for recycling.

The purpose is to reduce operating costs and prepare to lose weight to survive this industry winter.

"Bai Yeji? I've never heard of it. Is it a large shipping company in China?" John asked with a frown.

"No, judging from the registration information, it should be a newly established IT company."

"IT company?" Even the experienced shipping king was a little confused when he heard this.

"What kind of tanker should an IT company buy?"

"This...according to the news from our people, the other party seems to want to enter the field of ship autonomous driving.

And a plan to automate the transformation of the next three semi-product oil tankers has been proposed to the shipyard."

"Autopilot?"

Well, this is really the professional field of IT companies.

However, even if IT companies in the world are interested in entering this field, they usually cooperate with large shipping companies to reduce financial pressure.

After all, IT companies are generally asset-light companies. How do you think they are spending 3 billion yuan on a tanker?

The ship king had a question mark on his face.

"By the way, it is said that a certain senior executive of this Baiye Ji seems to be related to the Chinese officials responsible for the shipyard bailout project.

It is possible that this is a good show directed and performed by China in order to avoid the collapse of Bincheng Shipyard."

"Oh?" John nodded.

This makes sense.

Generally speaking, China will try its best to save state-owned enterprises like this, regardless of whether they have been eliminated by the market...

"Boss, now there has been a reply from Bincheng Shipyard, agreeing to refund the 600 million deposit. This is the settlement agreement drawn up by both parties.

As long as you sign, we can officially terminate the contract with Bincheng Shipyard."

The subordinate handed over a document.

John was stunned for a long time, originally thinking it would be a protracted lawsuit.

I didn’t expect the money to come back so easily...

I was a little dazed for a moment.

After coming back to his senses, he slowly picked up the pen.

However, after staying on the signature column of the document for a long time, I couldn't place the signature.

After hesitating for a moment, his expression changed, but he reluctantly put the pen down again.

"Uh... boss? What's wrong?" The subordinate was a little confused.

"This Bai Yeji appeared at the wrong time..." He slapped his pipe heavily on the agreement.

"Uh...but the Bincheng Shipyard has agreed to return the deposit, so we don't have to pay a penny for this order.

Isn’t this another big victory for us?”

John shook his head.

"That was before, now... the situation seems to have changed a bit..."

"Ah? What change?"

John said nothing.

The so-called "spring duck prophet", the international situation is changing rapidly, there are some things that only a person in his position can detect in advance...

He has been able to dominate the shipping industry for so many years because of his capital operation and risk awareness.

He had already made two preparations since signing the contract with Bincheng Shipyard.

When the market is bad, he can cancel orders and escape from the crisis unscathed.

But what if...

Originally, according to his plan, canceling the order put Bincheng Shipyard in trouble, but that was just the helpless first step.

And when the Bincheng Shipyard was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to resell the eight oil tankers at a low price...

As long as he finds a third-party company, he can buy back these eight oil tankers at one third of the original price, or even lower...

In this way, no matter how the international situation changes, you can remain invincible!

pity……

My Plan B...seems to have been cut off...
Chapter completed!