Chapter 45: Shipping standard setter (Please vote for monthly tickets!)

"...... In order to express the importance of science, the Government House treated Professor Lin Ran with unprecedented courtesy......"

Xu Aizhou waited at home for Lin Ran's arrival. In the past few days, all newspapers in Xiangjiang were discussing this mathematics professor.

Xu Aizhou didn't know why the other party chose to come to his house as a guest among the many local wealthy businessmen in Xiangjiang at the Governor's banquet that day.

Marriage is impossible; he has no female descendants of appropriate age.

Asking for money is even more impossible; the Xiangjiang media has investigated Lin Ran's special allowance from the Rockefeller Foundation very clearly.

Reports about his receiving Rockefeller allowances in American media have been reprinted everywhere.

Professor Lin is not short of this money at all.

Cooperation? But he mainly does wharf and real estate business, and the latter has businessmen in Xiangjiang who do better than him.

Really can't figure it out, Xu Aizhou has tried his best to guess, and can't guess the intention.

However, he soon understood.

After simple greetings, Lin Ran, sitting opposite on the sofa, handed over a stack of materials that had been prepared long ago.

"Report on Shipping Costs Lower Than Lu Yun Costs"

Xu Aizhou sat up straight as soon as he saw this name.

As an old-fashioned shipping giant, he has been doing shipping business since the 1920s, started land reclamation in the 1920s, used France's neutral status to purchase a large number of freighters, and operated the entire Southeast Asian shipping network.

How could the other party not know the significance of shipping costs being lower than land transport.

To put it bluntly, there are plastic factories and clothing factories everywhere in Xiangjiang now; if shipping costs are lower than land transport, Xiangjiang's production capacity can be expanded by a factor of two without worrying about no market.

"Old Mr. Xu, you read slowly, we have a long time, we talk slowly." Lin Ran said.

Xu Aizhou sat on the sofa and carefully flipped through the report Lin Ran carefully prepared.

Container is not a new concept.

In 1780, England's domestic canal system began to use standard wooden coal hopper boxes to realize the direct transport of coal from mines to Manchester factories.

This was the earliest container application.

Four years ago, the Ideal X oil tanker from Newark to Houston transported 58 33-foot containers, and the loading and unloading cost plummeted from $5.83/ton to $0.16/ton.

But this is not enough, because the truck transport cost in America is $0.045/ton.

It will not be until the North Atlantic route in 1966, after applying the standardized interface system, 54-ton gantry cranes, ship structure breakthroughs, container data structuring, and cold chain revolution, that the overall cost can be reduced to below truck transport costs.

Taking the data Lin Ran found from IMO technical files TS-1968/23, Krupp's 1973 technical white paper, and Maersk database 1956-1975 operating datasets as an example, the report compiled for Xu Aizhou depicted a beautiful prospect.

Shipping costs can be reduced to one-third of land transport costs.

Xu Aizhou became more and more excited as he read, more and more excited, he closed the report and took a deep breath: "Professor Lin, I am not afraid of your laughing, I am old and can't stand the stimulation."

Lin Ran expressed understanding: "I fully understand, according to my plan to transform Xiangjiang's wharves, shipping costs can be on par with land transport costs, and if the destination ports are transformed, costs can be reduced to one-third of land transport costs.

You read it first, and we will talk after reading."

About half an hour later, Xu Aizhou sorted out his emotions: "Professor Lin, I have to admit that what you sent is a big gift.

Even if you don't cooperate with the Xu family, just this information is enough for the Xu family to make a lot of money."

For a businessman like Xu Aizhou who has one foot in the grave, after seeing this report, he just needs to buy port shares brainlessly and wait for appreciation and operating dividends.

Traditional Cultural Huaguo businessmen are like this; nothing is better than eating land rent, and Xiangjiang businessmen are especially so.

Even without Lin Ran, he could see the potential of shipping from the gradual reduction of shipping costs, but without Lin Ran, he couldn't be sure how much the cost could be reduced, and whether it could really replace traditional land transport.

With Lin Ran's report, all this has answers.

"To express my gratitude, I took the liberty to give you a floor of the commercial and residential building under construction at No. 23-27 Wing Kut Street, Central. Professor Lin, you must accept it."

Just hearing the name Central, you know it is valuable, and it is a whole floor.

Lin Ran had to admire these Chinese businessmen who fought their way out in the first half of the 20th century. This way of speaking and doing things is most appropriately described by the word "beautiful."

Lin Ran didn't refuse; it was just a floor, which was not worth mentioning compared to the information he told the other party.

"I have three patents: honeycomb deck system, tapered guide column positioning device, and container data structuring, all of which have completed global patent registration at the New York Patent Office.

Currently, Europe, America, and Soviet Russia are all competing for the right to set container standards.

According to the news I got in America, the International Organization for Standardization Container Technical Committee is already in preparation, and it is expected to be established next year.

I hope Xiangjiang can obtain the right to set standards among them and occupy a dominant position in future shipping standards.

And what we can do is to take the lead in building two modern wharves, use the plan I gave to build a modern container fleet, and before the standards are set, demonstrate that Xiangjiang already has a complete plan for container standardization.

Let this plan become an international standard."

It is just that information is not circulating enough now. The honeycomb deck system can help cargo ships improve longitudinal strength, break through ship width restrictions, and help cargo ships break through original capacity restrictions.

Neon's Mitsubishi has almost researched it and will register the patent next year.

Now it is estimated that not only can they not register the patent, but they also have to pay Cultural Huaguo.

Lin Ran continued:

"I have technology and plans, Xiangjiang has wharves, ship merchants, and demand, and we can cooperate closely on this matter.

Let future global shipping obey Xiangjiang's standards.

They can find ways to bypass other technologies, but they absolutely have no way to bypass the patent of container data structuring.

No mathematician can develop a data structuring plan higher than this standard within five years."

Xu Aizhou was obviously tempted, and how could he not know what mastering standards meant.

Whether he is the Xiangjiang ship king or the world ship king depends on this wave.

"Professor Lin has any needs, our Xu Group will not shirk."

"No, no, no, relying on the Xu family alone can't handle this matter. We need to gather the strength of the entire Xiangjiang shipping industry.

I also need to see Dong Haoyun again.

We determine this matter first, and after we build the sample route for display, we also need to introduce two large international capitals.

I can help contact Morgan and Rockefeller. With their participation, if necessary, we can also introduce a European company.

With the endorsement of multiple parties, this standard will definitely become a global standard." ===== CHAPTER 46 =====