Valley Emperor

On June 10, Xuanping 46 years, five days before Datang Suez Canal Company was scheduled to open to full sailing, a ton freighter carrying the flag of the Pacific Shipping Company was slowly leaving the port of Suez, but the ship was not Like many ships, it sailed to the Red Sea and then all the way south into the Indian Ocean.

Instead, it went all the way north and entered the northernmost part of the narrow Red Sea.

At the northernmost point of the Red Sea, there is the Suez Canal, which has just been completed.

This 10,000-ton freighter is the Dawan, which belongs to the Pacific Shipping Company. It is a relatively new freighter with only three years of age. The Dawan is also one of the many ocean-going ships of the Pacific Shipping Company and is in active service. Later, like many other freighters, it ran all over the world.

Although it has only been three years, it has actually traveled all over the world.

This time, the ship set off from the mainland and transported a large number of export materials, including cloth and other light industrial products, a large number of weapons and ammunition, etc. These materials were transported to Europe.

Under normal circumstances, the ship will detour around South Africa and follow the African route all the way to the European port of Ceuta.

But this time just in time, the Suez Canal opened.

Datang Suez Canal Company began to contact major shipping companies a few days ago, saying that it was preparing to conduct a trial voyage of a 10,000-ton sea-going vessel to actually verify the navigation scheduling capability of the Suez Canal.

Well, the verification is the dispatching ability of the actual navigation, not the navigation ability of the canal.

Now that the canal has been opened, it has actually been able to navigate. Before the Grand Bay, there were actually many ships going to and from the Suez Canal for trial voyages.

From the small boats of several hundred tons at the beginning, to the ships of several thousand tons, it is a 10,000-ton ship. Three days ago, even a cruiser of the Navy entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal.

Before the Grand Baie, there were actually more than twenty ships of different types passing through the Suez Canal.

However, it is not enough to be navigable. Datang Suez Canal Company estimates that after the official navigation, the number of navigable ships will be relatively large, so it is necessary to formulate relevant scheduling and navigation plans in advance.

At present, the trial voyage of the Grand Bay is actually used to simulate the scheduling situation under the condition of a busy route.

Therefore, it seems that there is only one Dawan ship. It is obviously in the empty canal, but it still stops or sails on several wide rivers in the canal or in the dedicated waterway many times, and sails according to the dispatch instructions.

Because at this time the Canal Company was simulating a very busy navigation situation.

Before entering the canal, the Grand Bay sailed according to the dispatcher's instructions. It went north, and finally passed the entire canal slowly, and finally successfully left the canal and entered the Mediterranean Sea.

When the Grand Bay entered the Mediterranean Sea, applause broke out in the command room of the Grand Bay. Not only the captain of the Grand Bay, but also representatives of the Pacific Shipping Company, representatives of the Canal Company, and even representatives of the Navy and the Red Sea Affairs Yamen.

The successful opening of the Dawan Ship not only means that 10,000-ton ships can be navigated, but also means that the canal company has completed many detailed plans in terms of scheduling, and the subsequent canal can be officially opened to provide services for ships traveling between East Asia and Europe. More convenient navigation conditions.

After the Grand Bay entered the Mediterranean Sea, a group of representatives took the transportation boat to leave one after another, while the Grand Bay continued its journey. According to the scheduled plan, the Grand Bay will first go to the Port of Alex, unload some of the cargo, and continue to set off for Athens. , Black Sea Strait and other ports, and finally go to Ceuta to unload the last cargo.

During this process, part of the cargo will also be loaded.

The tens of thousands of tons of goods transported from the mainland will finally be unloaded from these relatively large and modern facilities in the Datang naval base ports, and finally distributed, loaded on small and medium-sized ships, and distributed to various indigenous ports.

Eventually these goods will enter the entire European region.

But what happened next had nothing to do with the Dawan.

After unloading the cargo at Ceuta, after a brief maintenance at the local naval base repair shop, the Grand Baie was reloaded with coal and fresh water, and again at the port of Ceuta with about three thousand tons of cargo, and then In addition to the previously loaded goods from the Port of Alexia, the Port of Athens, and the Port of the Black Sea, it left the Port of Ceuta with about 9,000 tons of cargo and entered the Atlantic Ocean after passing through the Strait of Gibraltar.

The ship will continue to sail westward all the way, and will arrive at Hero Port, which has been fully controlled by Datang and emigrated. At the same time, a military base has been built on it. After replenishing coal and fresh water on it again, it will continue to the north. New Jiangnan Port on the East Coast of the Americas.

The voyage of the Grand Bay will last for a long time. After arriving in North America, it will also go to Brazil and Argentina in South America, then bypass the southernmost tip of South America, and finally go north to Xinjinshan and other areas before crossing the The Pacific Ocean, passing through Pearl Harbor, and finally returning to the mainland of the Empire in East Asia.

Of course, many of the Empire's large-tonnage ships operate on such global routes, but only a few actually do so.

Most of the large-tonnage cargo ships actually run on the domestic routes of the Empire. The coastal provinces of the East Asia of the Empire, including Beihai Province and Nanyang Provinces, the routes surrounding the ports in these places are the most important and the most important of the Empire at present. busiest route.

As for overseas routes, although they are getting busier every day, they are still not comparable to local coastal routes.

And this part of the overseas routes are actually concentrated on the routes from the mainland to the Americas. As for the 10,000-ton freighters going to Europe, there are actually very few.

After all, at present, the European region, and even the Red Sea region, these places are not the main areas of overseas immigration of the empire~www.wuxiax.com~ Since there are not many overseas immigrants, the freight volume will naturally be less.

As for the market on the indigenous side, there are only so many in total, it is impossible to support too many imperial ocean shipping markets.

The core business of the three major shipping companies of the empire is actually carried out around the local coastal routes, at most one American route.

As for the Indian Ocean route and the European route, those are relatively remote routes.

However, with the opening of the Suez Canal and the full development of the Empire's European strategy, the proportion of European routes will inevitably increase gradually in the future, but that will be a matter of the future.

As for now, the empire's shipping companies are actually paying more attention to the American route and the construction of the Panama Canal.

The start time of the Panama Canal is earlier than the start time of the Suez Canal, but the natural environment in that place is worse, and the construction difficulty is much higher, so that the opening time is much later.

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