Chapter 414 The Suitable Candidate
“Running a logistics company successfully cannot be done with confidence!” Su Cheng did not agree to Li Yihui just because of his confidence.
Li Yihui is from the petrochemical industry after all. Although BP Petroleum Company also has a shipping subsidiary, and the business in Asia was previously managed by Li Yihui, the scale of BP Petroleum Company's shipping subsidiary is not large after all.
Su City has very high hopes for this upcoming logistics company.
Logistics companies, if they develop well, have unlimited potential in the future.
"I can invite Mr. Daniel Harry, the former president of Maersk's Asia-Pacific region, to serve as the president of the logistics company. I wonder if the boss knows Maersk?" Li Yihui asked.
Maersk? Of course Su City knows it. This is the first of the ten famous shipping companies in the future and the largest container shipping company in the world.
In the world before traveling through Sioux City, Maersk was already a very large freight logistics company integrating sea, land and air transportation, including sea, air, and railway transportation.
However, it is obvious that in this era, Maersk has not yet reached this status. Now, their strength is even far behind the charter king Global Shipping Company.
However, Maersk is also a multinational enterprise that has developed relatively quickly in the world's shipping industry. Over the years, its scale has been steadily and rapidly improving.
Therefore, if you can serve as the president of Maersk Asia, you must still have the ability.
“I know Maersk, but I don’t know Mr. Daniel Harry.” Su Cheng said truthfully.
Maersk also has a branch in Xiangjiang, but its headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region is in Singapore.
After all, Singapore relies on the advantages of the Strait of Malacca, which is much better than Hong Kong today.
However, when China begins to develop in the future, Xiangjiang's advantages will be better than Singapore's, so the Asia-Pacific regional headquarters will also be moved to Xiangjiang in the future.
It is precisely because of this that when Li Yihui was in Singapore, he met Mr. Daniel Harry of Maersk and became a very good friend.
“Mr. Daniel Harry once served as the President of Maersk’s Middle East Region and the President of Southeast Asia. Five years ago, he served as the President of the Asia Pacific Region and was the Minister of Border Affairs of Maersk. Mr. Daniel Harry and I have been together for a long time. We met through the company's business cooperation, and he later became my friend," Li Yihui introduced.
“Since you are the former Asia Pacific president of Maersk, why don’t you continue to work at Maersk now?” Su Cheng asked in surprise.
From Sioux City’s perspective, the prospects of working at Maersk should be pretty good.
But since he is a former president, he should no longer continue to work at Maersk.
“Two years ago, he started his own business and founded a Dali Logistics Company in Singapore, mainly focusing on business between Europe and Singapore. This year, just as his company was preparing to start financing to accelerate development, A large rented container ship owned by Dali Logistics Company was robbed with its cargo in the waters of Somalia, causing heavy losses to their company. It can be said that the two years of hard work were not only in vain, but also all his money over the years. All the savings have been exhausted." Speaking of Daniel Harry's incident, Li Yihui felt deeply sorry for him.
"Then contact him and see if he is willing to come." Su Cheng decided to give him a chance.
Having experience in serving as a border minister in a large multinational company, as well as experience in starting a business, such a person is indeed a talent, and it would be best to bring him over. The failure of Daniel Harry's business cannot be said to be due to his poor abilities, but only to his bad luck.
"Don't worry, leave it to me. Daniel Harry is still in debt with millions of Hong Kong dollars. I think he needs a job with both high salary and development prospects." Li Yihui smiled. said.
"Now that we have suitable management candidates, I will leave the logistics company to you. I will directly allocate 200 million Hong Kong dollars to you. This money is enough to develop a logistics company into a large logistics enterprise." Su Cheng directly said.
He is not saying that he believes Li Yihui so much, but he will also have people investigate Mr. Daniel Harry afterwards. When the time comes, he will know clearly whether Li Yihui lied.
Moreover, when Su City was developing Tianyuan Investment Company three years ago, it had already developed a very mature fund supervision team. Su City was not worried about the use of the allocated funds.
“200 million Hong Kong dollars is enough. You don’t even need that much upfront capital.” Li Yihui thought for a while and said.
When developing a logistics enterprise, the most expensive part in the early stage is the purchase of ships, aircraft, vehicles, etc.
Therefore, many logistics companies without financial strength basically relied on leasing for development at the beginning, which not only reduced risks but also did not require high investment.
For example, many large ships currently not in use by Global Shipping Group are leased to some logistics companies.
However, Sioux City does not need to rent a boat or plane, he has plenty of money.
Sucheng had learned about the current second-hand ship market from Charter King before.
In 1967, Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula and the Suez Canal became the front line. The canal was closed for eight years. Ships that used to detour through the Suez Canal had to go as far away as the Cape of Good Hope, which greatly stimulated shipping. Industry.
In addition, world industrial trade was also in a period of prosperity in the late 1960s. Global maritime trade volume increased rapidly during this period, soaring from 1.81 billion tons in 1966 to 3.23 billion tons in 1973, an increase of 78%. In seven years, The global demand for ships is greater than the total demand in the past 20 years after World War II.
Despite the rapid expansion of shipbuilding, shipping capacity is still in short supply, and it is “hard to find a ship” in the market. Many shipowners who were on the verge of bankruptcy suddenly found that their freight income could repay all their debts, and the shipping industry changed. It instantly became the most promising and profitable industry at that time, and banks were involved in the shipping industry.
Therefore, the late 1960s is also known as the golden age of the development of the global shipping market.
The chartered shipping king relied on this golden age of the global shipping market to seize the best opportunity to develop, and now it has firmly established itself as the world's leading shipping king.
However, this extreme rise also laid hidden dangers for the market recession. For example, from 1970 to 1971, the price of a second-hand VLCC was about 26 million US dollars, but by 1972 it rose to 61 million to 73.5 million US dollars. Prices have almost tripled, and the crisis is self-evident.
After the 1970s, a large amount of speculative investment led to a serious excess of tanker shipping capacity, rising oil prices, a sharp decrease in oil imports, and sluggish demand for shipping.
Now, we are experiencing the second world oil crisis.
It was precisely after seeing the general environment of the shipping industry that the chartering king came up with the idea of abandoning the boat and landing.
(End of this chapter)