Chapter 440： Hawke in Transition (Part 2)

"One way is to reduce costs."

Everyone knows the cost of compression, and is doing this, but Hawke's cost of compression is a little different from them.

"The cost reduction I talked about is different from before. First of all, on our essential insurance. Before, we talked about each. Because we are smaller than those foreign shipping companies, the discount rate is not large. But we add up. In fact, the scale is not smaller than them. You can form a group to negotiate. I believe that a good result can be negotiated."

Hawke's words made everyone nod their heads. It's not that no one has thought about this problem before, but there is not a person with enough prestige to organize it. At present, there is really no other candidate besides Hawke.

"In addition, we can actually do it together on the matter of dredging government relations. After all, we are still our own people. I believe this will give us a lot of points."

In fact, it is not only about relations in the future generations, but also in foreign countries. Otherwise, where so many public relations companies come from, among them are in the capital of the U.S. Empire, this has become a bright industry.

In Romania, the importance of smoothing ties to shipping companies is simply indescribable. Just talk about the priority to use the wharf and warehouse, which can make a bunch of shipping companies out of their minds.

It's just that compared with the previous proposal, this is not as neat as agreed. So after Hawke's voice fell, there was a lot of discussion on the scene.

In fact, think about it, the relationship that I spend a lot of energy to maintain, on what basis I want to share the benefits with everyone, and who is responsible for my previous expenses. All kinds of conditions, such as the lack of people's heart, make everyone seem not unified in this matter.

But Hawke had already anticipated this situation, and it was time to look at the courage of the leader. I saw him first say: "My own relationship can be shared with everyone, as long as we work together this matter is not difficult."

As the largest shipping company here, Hawke's own network is also the strongest. After seeing the strongest Hawke speak, he wanted to share his network, and other people also said, "My relationship can also be shared with everyone."

"me too."

"Yes, there is still me."

"Count me in."

Everyone's enthusiastic statement made this possible wrangling matter, and it was immediately approved. From this we can see how powerful a good leader is. He can completely resolve a dispute that has caused it through his personality charm. Of course, Hawke himself will not suffer. Although he has shared his own network, he has also expanded his relationship. In the future, who will not know himself as the leader of the shipping industry. So this is a win-win situation, but he makes more profits than others.

After solving another problem, Hawke continued: "The next step is to use the port terminal. I know that everyone has more or less shares in it. This time I don’t need everyone to share it. After all, this is the relationship. To the survival of the respective shipping companies, but we can unite."

No one spoke this time. Obviously, he wanted to hear the method given, and Hawke certainly had his own thoughts on this.

"Your shares in various terminals and ports, without affecting the interests of each other, can be given a certain degree of tilt. For example, everyone present can dock the cargo ships at our own docks and unload the goods to our own warehouses. Medium. We should also give a certain discount on the price. I think a 15% discount is a good discount."

Obviously, Hawke is very cautious about handling the core terminals and warehouses of the shipping companies. He did not ask for sharing, these are impossible to achieve. Instead, a preferential plan is proposed, so that everyone's business can be gradually concentrated. It can also benefit everyone.

Soon his plan got everyone's response. "No problem, Hawke's plan is fair, I agree."

"I agree."

"I agree too."

I can see that everyone is very supportive of themselves in terms of shipping. Hawke went on to talk about another plan: "Thank you for your support. The current shipping business is in a recession. Relying on these measures is believed to help everyone overcome the difficulties. However, it is difficult for us to develop and grow by this method alone. So I am here. There is an idea, and that is to go ashore."

"Go ashore?"

"Yes, just go ashore."

Hawke took out the Eastern Galicia development plan announced by the government and said: "I think we can't stay here for many years when the overall industry is in a downturn. Spend part of the funds into other industries, The key to our development and growth is to make profits and nurture the shipping industry."

"You mean to invest in Eastern Galicia?"

Facing the question, Hawke said seriously: "Yes."

"So what to invest? We don't understand anything except shipping. Isn't it possible that investment is too blind?"

This sentence caused everyone in the room to whisper and discuss. This is also true. They don't understand anything except shipping, so the possibility of blind investment loss is very high.

Seeing that everyone was reluctant, Hawke could only continue to explain: "I made this decision after careful consideration. Everyone knows that coal and iron ore has been discovered in Eastern Galicia, and the country has prepared 3 billion lei. Invest in it. And we can rely on this heavy industry zone to produce some marine equipment nearby. We can use these equipment ourselves, which can save us a repair cost. In addition, after the factory is expanded, we may also produce Other equipment, sell to other people to make a profit."

This is also Hawke's true thoughts. In his opinion, if you want to continue to grow in the shipping industry, you must find a way from other aspects. If they stay in the shipping industry, it will be difficult for them to continue to expand, because their small capital can't match the big companies, and they must find another way.

At present, manufacturing is the direction he has chosen. For the development and growth of this plant of hope, he also deliberately chose to start with marine facilities. After the factory has developed and expanded, it will expand its profits to expand its own capital in the shipping industry.

At this time, someone asked, "How much do you plan to spend on the total investment for this plan to open a manufacturing plant?"

"The total investment is 10 million lei, but it can be invested in several steps. The first batch of funds requires 5 million."

Hawke’s answer made everyone present hesitate. After all, it needs to invest 10 million lei, even if it was 5 million lei in the early period, this is not a small figure.

But at this time someone chose to believe in Hawke.

"I invested half a million lei."

Now that someone has spoken, things are much easier to handle next.

"I vote for two hundred and fifty thousand lei I vote for two hundred thousand lei."

"I am one hundred and fifty thousand."

Many people have invested a lot more or less because of their feelings. In the end, it came to a total of 2.84 million lei. This is also a manifestation of Hawke's charisma. If he changes another person, he will leave without a dime.

After the meeting, Hawke immediately prepared to choose a venue in Lviv. After all, this is where the steel plant will be located in the future. It is much more convenient to be closer.

In fact, there are many pioneers like Hawke in Romania. They used their own vision to preemptively build enterprises on the hot land of investment in Eastern Galicia. According to government statistics, after the release of the plan for the heavy industry zone, 80 million lei of private funds were invested here. Among them, the manufacturing industry is their key industry choice.

Those who react slowly, when the construction of the heavy industry zone begins to take shape, the investment cost here has risen a lot, making them often lament that they are too late to start. Who can blame this again?