MTL - Treasure Hunt Tycoon-Chapter 1588 Marine auction
Back in the United States, the flight landed in New York. Li Du contacted Cole and asked him to help find two outstanding jade masters, who wanted to carve something.
This was very simple for Cole. Li Du was not bad for money. He contacted two well-known sculptors from New York. The other party immediately came to accept the offer after hearing the price.
So at the beginning of the new year, Li Du was busy.
He had a small plan to execute. Finding a sculptor was only the first step in the plan's execution. Then he had to prepare to go home for the New Year. In addition, people in both the warehouse auction and real estate bidding industries were waiting for him to finalize.
Bill had arranged a warehouse auction for him, and he had to attend, a rare offshore auction.
As the name implies, the marine auction is naturally conducted at sea. Li Du does not participate in ordinary auctions, but he is very interested in this marine auction. One is novel and the other is great value.
In the warehousing auction industry, the top is the war auction *. If the Iraq war is over, the US military retreats from Iraq, leaving a lot of supplies.
These materials are mostly war wastes, which are not worthy of transportation in the future, but they cannot be thrown away in vain, so the US Department of Defense will organize a warehouse auction.
However, this kind of auction is rare in the past few years. Even if it is encountered by ordinary people, they are afraid to intervene. The war auction is controlled by arms companies, military contractors, violent teams and some underworld organizations.
Except for war auctions, the second most valuable is the clearing auctions organized by the public service departments of the US governments or customs organizations. Among them, one of the auctions organized by customs is the container auction.
Every year, customs offices around the country have some unclaimed containers and goods. These things are collected and will be held in a grand auction.
The marine auction is similar to the container auction, because what it auctions is also in the container, that is, the transportation company goes bankrupt or fails, or for some reason a ship cannot be docked, and the goods on the ship become ownerless. The owner, government and insurance The company will host an auction.
This kind of auction started in the 1970s and 1980s, and the earliest millionaire among the treasure collectors came from this, and made a lot of money through container auctions.
However, marine auctions are rare. After all, the failure of a shipping company is very rare. It is even more rare that the goods are thrown directly at sea after the failure of a shipping company.
The last maritime auction was seven or eight years ago. In the global financial crisis of 2008, the shipping industry suffered a severe blow, and many small shipping companies closed down.
At that time there was an upsurge of offshore auctions. So far, thousands of clubs in various places in China have picked up treasures.
It's scary to think about the difficulty of entering ten million clubs through warehouse auctions, but there are still more than 20 related members in the United States. They rely on not only strength but also luck to encounter such large-scale auctions.
Now Li Du encountered one.
Just this year, South Korean Trade Group, the largest shipping company in South Korea and one of the world's top ten shipping companies, went bankrupt. This shipping company has more than 200 container ships, bulk carriers and LNG carriers, and its fleet operates 60 worldwide. A number of regular and non-scheduled routes transport hundreds of millions of tons of cargo to the world each year.
With the slump in the shipping market, the situation of major shipping companies around the world is worse, of which the Korean trade group is the most miserable.
Although there are more than 200 ships, only half of them can really be used for shipping, and less than forty ships belonging to the Korean Trade Group are in this half, and the rest are leased.
The shipping industry is very costly. Keeping a ship is much crazy than raising an airplane. Ship maintenance costs millions of dollars at a time. If something goes wrong and needs repairs, it will cost more!
In addition, once the voyage is just the price of gas, the price is high. In order to maintain the safety of shipping, some routes are controlled by violent organizations, and shipping companies have to spend money to buy peace.
In summary, the Korean Trade Group lost a total of three trillion won and more than two billion US dollars in the first half of last year. It started to lose money the previous year. The loss last year was even more horrible. It finally failed to support bankruptcy protection.
The bankruptcy information of such super companies is very secret. They are listed groups. In order to maintain the stock price, before the bankruptcy application is submitted to the court, the group has been swollen and fat to prevent investors from panic-throwing stocks. To bankruptcy protection, it collapsed.
As a result, when the Korean Trade Group filed for bankruptcy, there were still many routes in operation, and there were still many ships sailing at sea.
As soon as the bankruptcy information came out, Hanmao Group immediately tore its face and began to show the bottomless, unruly, and shameless style of the Korean Han clan. They directly ignored these ships at sea!
Before these ships sailed and set off, they were not filled with fuel or water at one time. They all went to a transit point for maintenance and replenishment.
When the Korean Trade Group went bankrupt, no one would give them money, water and supplies ~ www.novelbuddy.com ~ So some ships could not move at sea ...
In fact, we can't completely blame the cold-blooded Korean Trade Group. They really have no money, and they can't even afford the tug money.
In addition, because the Korean Trade Group went bankrupt, most ports around the world refused to dock their ships at the port, resulting in a large number of goods still trapped overseas or in ports, which caused large-scale delivery delays.
All kinds of reasons are combined. Today, two or thirty freighters of the Korean Trade Group are trapped outside the port, some of which are near the port. After the insurance company pays, the ship is pulled back by the ship.
Other ships are in the open sea. It would be too costly to pull the above goods back. In addition, in order to reduce the impact of delays in delivery and the financial pressure caused by the Korean Trade Group, some of the goods carried on board were of low value. The company wasn't interested in paying big bucks for the goods.
At this time, the warehousing auction industry came in handy, and the insurance company hosted the auction and invited treasure pickers from across the United States to participate.
Those who can participate in this auction are not ordinary treasure hunters. Insurance companies have verified their assets very smartly. Those with assets less than one million have basically been rejected.
Bill told Li Du that all the million and ten million club members participating in this auction will be a super master.
Because the freighter docked in the open sea area, Li Du could not do his homework in advance this time, so he had to raise energy and investigate the situation well.
After the insurance company's compensation for the ship is completed, the auction will be held the next month.
They issued an invitation letter to each participant in advance. After accepting the invitation letter, the insurance company will give a code to go to their website to get information about the auction.
