Chapter 57 WPG0057: More expensive prices and greater risks?
Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, it was already three days later.
July 2nd, around ten o'clock in the morning.
An Wuyang was exchanging messages with Xia Yuqing, and then received a call from Zhu Guanghao.
"Brother, do you have time now?" Zhu Guanghao asked.
An Wuyang answered affirmatively, "Of course there is time."
"We have made preliminary preparations here. Let's meet today to summarize them?" Zhu Guanghao suggested.
An Wuyang agreed, "Okay, I'll contact Wu Kefan and Zhou Xiang, and you can contact Kai Rui and Brother Haoran."
"We will meet at the Tonghua Tea House. I will send you the specific address via WeChat right away." An Wuyang added.
Zhu Guanghao naturally agreed, "No problem."
After the two parties ended the call, An Wuyang first sent the location information of Tonghua Tea House to Zhu Guanghao, and then forwarded it to Wu Kefan and Zhou Xiang, and attached the information of meeting and discussing.
It was just after a quarter past eleven in the morning.
Everyone has arrived in the Xiying box of Tonghua Teahouse.
An Wuyang first looked at Xu Haoran, "Brother Haoran, have you obtained the import license?"
Xu Haoran is the son of Xu Dingsheng, the second supervisor of Shengqing Pass. This time when electronic waste containing gold is imported from Bald Eagle, the first problem to be solved is the import license.
"Of course!" Xu Haoran replied affirmatively, "Brother Wuyou, don't worry, such little things are easy for me!"
Xu Haoran and An Wuyang are the same age, and they also took the college entrance examination this year. They call each other brother, which is obviously a sign of high emotional intelligence.
The one who doesn't have much strength but is really arrogant when others call him brother is definitely Sha Yuan!
An Wuyang looked at Zhou Xiang again. He actually knew that Zhou Xiang had solved the funding problem.
In fact, as early as three days ago, on the night when An Wuyang proposed to build a cooperative alliance, Zhou Xiang had determined the funding issue.
With such a high return on investment, if the Zhou family is not decisive, all the upstream and downstream manufacturers of Wugengtian Pharmaceutical Group will be willing, right?
"Brother Xiang, are there no problems with the funds?" An Wuyang asked knowingly, in order to tell others that there was no problem with the funds.
Zhou Xiang answered affirmatively, "The funds of 10 million US dollars have been prepared. In addition, we will also advance the related travel expenses and living expenses."
An Wuyang nodded with satisfaction, "That's good!"
When An Wuyang finished speaking and before he could continue asking, Wu Kefan took the initiative and said, "Brother Wuyang, our Venus is also ready. We have coordinated an express route in advance, and it will take no more than 15 days at the earliest." Deliver the goods within our territory ”
In fact, the faster way to transport is by air!
But there were too many gold-containing CPUs in that batch, with the total number approaching 5 million.
Even if the average weight of one is 25 grams, even if no outer packaging is used and only the CPU is transported, the final weight will be almost 125 tons.
What is the concept of airlifting 125 tons of cargo from Bald Eagle to Xia Kingdom?
First of all, it must be transported by cargo aircraft. Considering the cargo weight of up to 125 tons, plus the outer packaging, at least two large cargo aircraft are needed to accommodate it.
By choosing the charter flight model, the cost of air transportation of Bald Eagles to Xia China should be able to drop to about US$20 per kilogram.
Even if the outer packaging is ignored and only the weight of the 125-ton CPU is considered, the final transportation cost will be as high as 2.5 million US dollars. After calculation based on the exchange rate of 1:6.8, the transportation cost will be 17 million Xia Guoyuan.
Some people may be curious, why can the price of air freight be lower when using commercial channels, such as DHL or international express delivery such as UPS and GEG?
The answer is because business channels have a lot of profit margins and various terms and conditions. Take the famous GlobalExpressGuaranteed as an example. If electronic products are shipped by air from Bald Eagle Los Angels to Xia Guojiang, the lowest price starts at US$20, and the mailing weight cannot exceed 2 pounds, that is, no more than 908 grams.
However, the weight of many mailed packages does not reach 908 grams at all. For example, if it is only 100 grams or 200 grams, then there will be profit redundancy.
For example, if there are five 200g air freight orders, the total price is US$100, but GEG can merge the five orders together to form a large order of 1Kg, and the final cost will not exceed US$20.
These freight companies combine profit margins like this and make comprehensive use of resources to provide air freight services at relatively low prices.
In addition, even if there is overweight, GEG will continue to charge more. And if the overweight is too much, such as transporting hundreds of kilograms of goods at a time, there is even a risk of being notified by GEG to investigate.
In view of the high cost of air transportation, Wu Kefan expressed that he was preparing sea transportation routes.
For a mere 125 tons of goods, even if you choose a safer way and divide them into seven standard containers and transport them by sea to Jianghai, the final cost will be quite low.
After all, even on a fast route, the transportation cost of seven standard containers cannot exceed US$50,000, which is equivalent to one-fiftieth of the air freight cost.
So the shipping cost is very cost-effective!
Wu Kefan quickly explained the transportation costs, and finally added, "If you think air transportation is more suitable, we can also contact the relevant air transportation companies to air freight our goods back."
"What do you think?" An Wuyang asked.
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Although the price of air freight is too expensive, the delivery time of air freight is short, thus avoiding long nights and many changes.
Although the cost of shipping by sea is cheap, if goods worth more than 300 million Xia Guoyuan are floating at sea for half a month, what if an accident occurs?
Don’t say anything about purchasing insurance services!
If you want to purchase insurance services for goods worth more than 300 million Xia Guoyuan, let alone the price of insurance services, just announcing the value of this batch of goods, isn't that just attracting bees and butterflies?
So now this difficult problem was placed in front of everyone, but everyone looked at An Wuyang, as if waiting for An Wuyang to make up his mind.
An Wuyang thought about it for a moment before expressing his thoughts, "I'm actually more inclined to use the air freight channel."
"I believe everyone understands the long nights and many dreams." An Wuyang added.
"After all, where the freighter goes, there are really pirates!" An Wuyang complained.
It sounds outrageous to still have pirates in 2021, right?
Yet it's true!
An Wuyang added, "But if we use air transportation, we can try to contact Shunfeng Express to talk about charter flights."
Wu Kefan's eyes lit up, "Yes, yes! I forgot about Tongfeng. If it were theirs, I believe the air freight cost would be reduced."
"Leave this matter to you. I hope to have an answer today." An Wuyang ordered.
"I will contact my dad right away and ask my dad to contact Shunfeng." Wu Kefan is also an activist. He immediately took out his mobile phone to send a message to his dad.
"Let's ignore the transportation issue for now. Brother Guanghao, Kai Rui, how are your preparations over there?" An Wuyang asked.
Sun Kairui answered affirmatively, "We have contacted regular smelting manufacturers. After this batch of goods comes back, we can ask them to help us smelt it, or even sell it directly to them."
Zhu Guanghao seconded, "Don't worry about the price. The recycling price of upstream manufacturers is higher than that of external gold recycling, and it is more trouble-free."
"There is no need to worry about financial issues, but for this amount, we may have to refer to the taxes related to the occasional income tax payment." Zhu Guanghao explained.
Sun Kairui added, "Originally, this money was levied according to personal income tax categories, but it was ultimately defined as incidental income."
This is a huge savings!
(End of chapter)