In the next more than a week, except for taking a few hours to privately discuss Haojiang's development plan with Governor Izidi, Sioux City basically focused on vacation and relaxation.
Haojiang is not big. The Haojiang of this era is much smaller than the Haojiang he knew in his previous life. When it comes to vacation, there are not many places to play.
However, traveling itself is to stay in a city that you are tired of, and to go to a city that others are tired of.
Breaking in the sea breeze, looking at the scenery, even going to the Pujing Hotel to play a few tricks, and occasionally visiting various branches, the days passed quite quickly.
In the blink of an eye, time has come to October 25th.
At noon, after lunch, Su Cheng and others got into the car and headed to the dock.
I have stayed here for more than ten days. This is the first time that Su City has stayed here for so long.
In the past, he usually came to stay for a day or two and then went back. This time he broke the record.
It’s time to go back to Xiangjiang.
Originally, Gillian and others wanted to continue playing here for a few more days, but Su Cheng had something to do in Xiangjiang, so they had no choice but to go back.
More than an hour later, Su Cheng and others returned to the Central Pier.
Back at the Central Pier, Su Cheng was not in a hurry to go home. He just asked the other two cars to take Zhong Chuhong, Gillian and A Mei back to the Su family villa.
As for Sioux City, his car drove directly towards the Hung Hom Cross Harbor Tunnel.
The destination is Kwai Tsing Container Terminal more than ten kilometers away.
Pier 4 of Kwai Tsing Container Terminal belongs to Hutchison Whampoa Group.
Pier 1, on the other hand, belongs to the Wharf Group.
Currently, five terminals of Kwai Tsing Container Terminal have been put into use.
In 1972, the first container terminal "Pier 1" was completed.
In December 1973, Kwai Chung Lot 4 (Berths 4 and 6) was awarded in the form of land exchange.
In November 1974, Lot No. 5 (Berth No. 5) in Kwai Chung was also awarded by private treaty.
In 1976, the five container terminals were fully operational.
Therefore, among the Kwai Tsing container terminals, two of them currently in use are related to Sioux City, and among them, Hutchison Whampoa has all the rights to use Pier 4.
As for Pier 1, since it belongs to the Wharf Group, and Sioux City is the second largest shareholder of the Wharf Group, this terminal is also related to him.
Today, Kwai Tsing Cargo Terminal has become the largest terminal in Hong Kong, with an endless stream of ships coming in and out every day.
There are even signs that it is not enough.
Therefore, the government has already made plans to reclaim land from the Kwai Tsing Container Terminal and continue to build more container terminals.
The Rolls-Royce drove directly into the pier smoothly.
Sitting in the car, Su Cheng could see that the entire Pier 4 was a busy scene.
On the dock, container trucks, cranes, forklifts and other engineering vehicles are busy.
The car finally arrived at a pier berth.
After getting out of the car, Zhang Qizheng greeted him.
"Boss, this is the first cargo ship to transport equipment, and there will be a second and third ship, all of which will arrive in Xiangjiang in the next two days." Zhang Qizheng pointed at the dock in front of him. A giant ship at the dock introduced Su Cheng.
Su Cheng nodded and carefully looked at the giant ship in front of him. There is a logo of Dali Logistics above the giant ship, indicating that the giant ship is a cargo ship of Dali Logistics.
Dali Logistics Company is a logistics and shipping company under Sioux City. Over the past year or so, it has successively taken over many large ships from the Global Shipping Group, and the price-performance ratio is very high.
That's right, after more than a month, all the production equipment of Austin Auto's several manufacturers in the UK were packed back.
In addition, the R&D equipment from Austin and Jaguar have also been brought over.
In addition, it also includes part of the Jaguar production line.
Due to restrictions in the agreement, Jaguar's headquarters cannot be moved to Xiangjiang.
However, it is still possible to set up a branch factory here in Xiangjiang.
Therefore, the Jaguar production lines shipped this time are still new.
As early as a week ago, Zhang Qizheng had negotiated with the Lands Department.
Eventually, the automobile industrial park prepared by Sioux City will be located in the Tai Lam and Siu Lam areas of Tuen Mun.
Although this place belongs to Tuen Mun, it has many advantages.
First of all, in terms of distance, it is much closer to the city than the oil base. It is also a neighbor of Tsuen Wan, so it is very convenient to travel to and from the city.
Secondly, it is close to the sea. Although it is not possible to build a super large tonnage terminal, medium and large terminals are still possible. After acquiring this land, you can build your own car transportation terminal.
And it is only a dozen or twenty kilometers away from the Kwai Tsing Container Terminal. Even if the export volume is large in the future and our own terminal is not enough, we can still export through the Kwai Tsing Terminal.
The most important thing is that there is currently no development here, and most of the land is owned by the government.
In the end, this piece of land in the southeasternmost part of Tuen Mun was acquired by Tian Yuan Investment Company at the market price.
Thanks to the care of Governor MacLehose, the Lands Department acquired this land of 1.28 million square meters in just half a day.
There are several small villages near there, and the village population is not large.
In addition, the land sold by the government to Tianyuan Investment Company belongs to the government's own land, so even demolition is omitted.
As long as the entire land is bulldozed, we can start building the factory.
Unlike the factories in the industrial park on the Haojiang side, the requirements for automobile factories are not high. In the early days, a metal room could even be built to cope with it.
However, Su Cheng certainly does not intend to do this. After all, he does not lack factory buildings now, he just lacks such a large and connected land.
Therefore, after discussion, these automobile manufacturing plant equipment and R&D equipment shipped from the UK will be temporarily moved to a factory in Kwun Tong.
Kwun Tong will also become the starting point of Hong Kong’s automobile industry.
After the automobile industrial park in Tuen Mun is completed, all equipment will be relocated to Tuen Mun.
As for the industrial plants here in Kwun Tong, they naturally have their uses.
“In addition, some employees from Austin and Jaguar have also arrived in Xiangjiang in batches. Although a large part of them have refused to come, in the future, through the leadership of this part of British employees, we will be able to train local people in Xiangjiang. employees in the automobile industry. In addition, we also use Sanyo Headhunting Company to recruit talents from powerful automobile countries such as Japan, China, Germany, and Italy. Xiangjiang’s automobile industry will become more and more complete," Zhang Qizheng continued.
"Does the person in charge have a goal?" Su Cheng asked.
Su City has great expectations for this Xiangjiang Automobile Group, so it definitely needs a capable automotive professional to lead the development of this automobile group.
"Mr. Liu from Sanyo Headhunting Company is currently in Germany, preparing to poach Volkswagen's famous senior vice president. Since our city in Xiangjiang is a desert in the automobile industry, the top automobile managers will not come at all, so we only The senior vice president is also very capable, but he is still too young, only in his thirties. Mr. Liu and I are very optimistic about his car management capabilities," Zhang Qizheng replied. (End of this chapter)