The negotiations have reached a deadlock. The United States wants to stimulate employment and introduce investment. Ww. La and Feng Yu and others invest just to make money. There is no reason for them to go to the United States to do charity. They are not American citizens.
If you can use more efficient automation equipment to ensure higher profit margins, why use less efficient ones? Although the investment will be more, it will be able to differentiate itself from other ports and terminals, which will have a great publicity effect on their terminals, Hutchison Whampoa, etc., and can increase the overall asset value.
Feng Yu is also a shareholder of Hutchison Whampoa. Increasing the brand value and asset value of Hutchison Whampoa means that Feng Yu has made more money. There is no reason to sacrifice the near for the distant.
Port automation is a trend. Feng Yu remembers that in his previous life, he went to the port in the Magic City. There were not many workers at all, the safety was greatly increased, and the efficiency was extremely high.
If you invest in ports in the United States, do your best. If he doesn't do well, it will also affect Feng Yu's reputation. When will the industries Feng Yu invests in fall so far behind
Reed said that this still requires continued communication between the two parties. He also needs to report to the boss and ask for the opinions of the Auba Niu team.
In fact, port owners like them also have a lot of complaints against the dock unions. The rates at American docks remain high, but the profits of their port owners can only reach the average, not because these workers earn too much.
What has the auto union dragged the American auto industry into? In the end, those workers suffered huge losses. Many factories were shut down, and those workers would not get the chance to renew their contracts. In addition to being auto workers, they would also what to do
The leaders of the trade union did not suffer any loss. They still lived in big houses and lived a superior life.
However, it is definitely impossible for others to solve this problem, but if Obama does it, there is really some hope.
Because most workers in the United States are black, black people generally have lower levels of education and engage in more manual labor. When white people were in power before, this conflict was likely to intensify.
But Oba Niu is also black, so conflicts about skin color and race can be greatly alleviated or even avoided.
Choosing automation, from a long-term perspective, is beneficial to the United States as a whole, it is also beneficial to the California consortium, and it is even more beneficial to Feng Yu and others.
Choosing semi-automation will be beneficial to Auba Niu at the moment, but it will not be so cost-effective for Feng Yu and the others, and even the California consortium will lose a lot of profits.
The specific choice needs to be considered in detail. Even if their cooperation is concluded this time, it may have a major impact on all ports in the United States.
If automation can be successfully implemented, once other port terminal owners see the efficiency here and upgrade their equipment, the port congestion in the United States will be greatly alleviated, or even solved forever. This also has a major impact on U.S. trade.
Feng Yu didn't say anything more. If this point is not discussed properly, then investment will be meaningless.
Li Zeju suddenly said: "Reed, why don't we each take a step back? You plan to use the five ports owned by the West Coast to cooperate with us. Then we will choose three of them as pilots and carry out automation transformation first. Let's see. After seeing the results, how about deciding whether to automate everything?”
Pilot is a risk reduction measure. Experience can be gained, and maybe some lessons can be learned to avoid possible heavy losses before full-scale implementation.
Enterprise reform often involves pilot projects. If there are many branches or subsidiaries of the same type, implement it in one or a few of them to test the feasibility of this plan, and then make a decision whether to implement it in the whole company or simply abandon the plan.
In Li Zeju's view, there is actually no need to pilot automation. In many ports in Europe and Asia, automation is standard, and efficiency and profits can be seen.
But the United States is different. Even though it has many similarities with Europe, it is still a different country after all, and its national conditions are still different.
The most important thing is the attitude of the labor unions and political axes here.
Speaking of the pilot, Reed was a little moved. It’s not a bad idea to give it a try. If they can succeed, they will get higher returns, and Obama can also rely on this political performance to gain the support of more wealthy people for re-election, which is more in their interests.
"Li, since it is a pilot, one terminal is enough. There is no need to do three pilots together." As a pilot, you chose three-fifths of the five ports and terminals to cooperate. What else do you call a pilot? Reed felt that it was completely unnecessary.
"Reed, the location of each port is different, and the situation in each state is also different. Choosing three for pilots is to achieve better results. And this is not just for our ports, but for pilots. It is a pilot project for the entire West Coast port, or even a pilot project for all ports in the entire United States. Three is not too many."
Li Zeju directly expanded the scope to all port industries in the United States, which required special approval from Obama.
Reed shook his head: "Our ports are representative of the West Coast at best, but not representative of the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast at all."
"Even on the entire West Coast, do three port terminals serve as a lot of pilot projects? Even if five of us are built to be automated, it is not an exaggeration. After all, we are just one of the terminals in these port cities."
Li Zeju and Feng Yu agree very much with this statement. Currently, there is no automated terminal on the West Coast. They have built five automated terminals in five ports, which can be regarded as one pilot in each port city, which is not too much.
Only then did Feng Yu realize that Li Zeju seemed to be quite good at raising banners. In this way, it is no longer just an ordinary business activity, but has risen to the level of a national industry. Success is a good political achievement for Obaniu.
Even if it fails, Obama can publish a book based on this, or give a speech to explain what he originally thought, and he will definitely make a lot of money.
"Two, I can only agree to two at most, and I still have to fight with the boss. If the boss doesn't agree, maybe none will be accepted," Reed replied.
"At least two pilot projects. If we only agree to one, then there is no need for us to talk about it further." Feng Yu stopped Li Zeju from talking.
Hutchison Whampoa wants to invest in American ports, and port bosses across the country know it. In this way, they will lose the initiative in negotiations, which will be detrimental to them.
Feng Yu, on the other hand, can show a disdainful attitude towards this, with a simple combination of white face and red face. But because Feng Yu is the richest man in the world, this is very different.
Reed and the others must be worried that if their relationship with Feng Yu breaks down, they will still be the ones to lose.
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