Chapter 77 The Ship Queen

The Goddess of Athena, as the sailors on board said, first docked at Valencia, Spain's largest port. The two reporters made an excuse to go shopping in the duty-free shop in the port. They found a restaurant where they could see the entire Athena Goddess. While eating, you watched the cargo unloaded from the Athena Goddess.

What was unloaded here in Valencia was not grain, but mainly containers loaded with goods. Grain is loaded in the cabin, and equipment like a conveyor belt is needed to unload the grain from the ship. Valencia is located on the west coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Even if a large cargo ship like the Goddess Athena needs to be re-exported, it should be carried out in a port in Italy or Greece in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, because the cost is the lowest.

The Athena Goddess stayed in Valencia for a day, and then continued to sail north to Marseille, the largest port in France. The two female journalists are naturally fascinated by France. The American passports they hold allow them to enter France without a visa. However, because of their busy work, they cut off the idea of ​​going to the city for a stroll.

In Marseilles, the Goddess Athena not only unloaded a lot of cargo, but also loaded a large amount of cargo onto the Goddess Athena. But the food on board still has no intention of being unloaded.

The Goddess of Athena stayed in Marseille for a day and a half, and then left Marseille and sailed to Italy. After the two reporters experienced the wharf operations in the first two ports, they became more and more concerned about the work of large ocean-going cargo ships on the wharf. familiar. They knew that to unload the grain in the cabin, they had to rely on professional equipment on the dock, because the grain was transported in bulk, not in containers.

This professional equipment is called a grain suction machine. The grain suction machine is a bit similar to a large vacuum cleaner. He will extend a pipe into the cabin of the freighter to suck up the grain particles, and then transport them to the warehouse or other places through the conveyor belt. what ship.

Not long after the Athena goddess left France, it unexpectedly docked at the port of Naples. The reason why it is unexpected is that this is not the most suitable entrepot port. It is located in the west of the Apennine Peninsula. Even laymen know that if large cargo ships are to be re-exported, the port of Taranto, which is close to the heel part of the boot in Italy, is the only port. more suitable.

However, in the port of Naples, the female reporters of the New York Times finally saw the grain suction machine they had been looking forward to.

On the pier of Naples, the giant ship Athena Goddess docked quietly on the dock. The giant grain suction machine inserted the suction port into the belly of the Athena Goddess, and the donated grains from the United States left the goddess. The giant ship named after.

"It's simply too spectacular!" On the pier, two reporters used their cameras to faithfully record the spectacular scene of the grain being unloaded, while continuing to inquire about the whereabouts of the grain.

"So much food,

How will it be dealt with next? Wearing a hard hat, the female reporter found a security officer on the pier and asked quietly.

"It should be loaded on a ship of another shipping company and shipped elsewhere! We Italy will not import so much grain!" The security officer on the pier saw that the other party was a beautiful young woman, and was also willing to chat with her.

"Other shipping companies, isn't the parent company of the Goddess Athena responsible for the next transportation?" The female reporter was very interested in the shipping company that continued to transport this batch of grain, because only writing about the shipping company was obviously the clue below .

"The ships of MSC are easy to recognize. Their cargo ships are all named after women, like the Goddess of Artemis and the Goddess of Hestia. Eighty-nine are freighters of Mediterranean Shipping Company." The terminal security officer introduced to the female reporter.

"The woman's name is really strange. I thought cargo ships would be named after Poseidon, Hercules or something like that?" The female reporter said casually, thinking of an excuse to ask the person in charge of this batch of food. The shipping company thing for the onward journey.

"What's so strange about this, the owner of MSC is a woman! Let me tell you a secret, this woman bought this shipping company from the Mafia. The shipyards in Naples love this woman to death and buy it almost every year The tonnage of the new ships is larger than the other, and the money is never delayed. Now almost all the shipbuilding industry in Naples is working for Mediterranean Shipping..." the security officer continued.

"Female boss, Mafia, are you kidding me?" The female reporter suddenly became excited when she heard such violent news.

"Of course I'm not joking. During the audit of MSC's assets, almost all the bosses in Naples came. All the freighters of the entire MSC lined up and passed in front of the female boss. I don't know which woman What's the origin, but I think it's more prestigious than the Mafia!" The security officer on the pier has worked here all his life, and some things that happened on the pier are also his eternal talk in this life. When Mediterranean Shipping was audited, according to the requirements of the audit company, all ships and vehicles belonging to Mediterranean Shipping were lined up to prevent repeated counting. On that day, every cargo ship that entered the port of Naples sounded its whistle. Welcome the new owner, this kind of thing is going to be told to the granddaughter after the security officer retires.

The female reporter continued to inquire about MSC, but the security officer was only a small person and didn't know much about it. But what he said has already made the female reporters of the "New York Times" jump for joy, the Mafia, the Ship Queen, plus the American Farmers Association and the Department of Agriculture. How many important figures are still involved in this food smuggling industrial chain! Oh! correct! The tankers at Guantanamo Bay that were used to attack U.S. bases appear to be from Mediterranean shipping. At the time the company said the ships were hijacked by armed men while they were sailing off the west coast of Africa. The United States has always believed that the Cubans did this, because it is very close to the waters of Angola. Angola is in a white-haired civil war, and the Cubans directly sent troops to participate. Hijacking several freighters is not a problem at all.

"Sir, is MSC responsible for transporting a lot of food? Where will the food be shipped after it is unloaded?" The female reporter continued to ask.

"I don't know how much, but the turnover of Mediterranean shipping is very fast, and these grains should be shipped away by the Turkish shipping company immediately!" The security officer replied.

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