Chapter 846 – Brazilian Iron Ore

If Alan Wilson remembers correctly, the field of regional airliners is one in which Britain was also the first country to get off the ground, some five years before the Boeing regional airliner in the United States.

Of course, not surprisingly, the United Kingdom once again took out the first-class technology to produce a second-class product, this regional airliner in China is greatly famous, called the Trident airliner.

Compared to the Boeing regional airliner, which has sold thousands of units, the Trident’s biggest market is China, in addition to the UK’s own use. The total production is only one tenth of Boeing’s. After losing the Comet to Boeing, the UK lost again in the regional airliner sector.

And now, compared to the newly launched Boeing 707, the Comet has already sold five hundred units and built up a huge advantage. It was now ready to consider a differentiated product.

“Is there a market for it?” Pamela Mountbatten spoke carefully, “I’m not suspecting anything, just asking.”

“The distance between East and West Malaysia would be a waste to use a Comet airliner. It’s just that I didn’t have a choice in the first place, you have shares in the De Havilland Company, even if it’s to help you, I’m still hardened to help you increase your sales.” Alan Wilson’s tone was rather helpless, Britain’s own products, he couldn’t help the domestic country to stand firm, “In fact, Australia’s domestic routes are also suitable for regional airliners.”

The market for regional airliners is certainly not as good as that for mainline airliners, but because the positioning is different, the market demand is also there. After all, there are not a few China, as such, the mainline passenger aircraft as regional passenger aircraft with, get a rare five percent share.

Regional airliners generally have twenty to thirty percent of the use of the proportion, this proportion can not be ignored.

Unconsciously, a small book has appeared in the hands of Pamela Mountbatten, husband and wife still have similar habits. Only Pamela Mountbatten is used to remember business affairs, Allen Wilson is used to record, which movie queen is about to celebrate her birthday, what she likes to eat, etc…….

This time the husband’s insights about the airline segment, Pamela Mountbatten felt the need to record them. To discuss with de Havilland for implementation.

“Another great program to get the colonies to pay up.” With these words from Alan Wilson, Pamela Mountbatten became more serious.

“I’ll make a note of it.” After Pamela Mountbatten made a note of it, she inquired, “Preempting the regional airliner market. Will it lead to a disruption in the company’s business?”

“The competitors of the Comet airliner have already appeared. It’s necessary to explore the market, or else it really won’t be easy to deal with.” Alan Wilson was worried and said to his wife, “Has one of the Comet airliners entered American Airlines yet? No. Boeing is a formidable foe.”

He would like de Havilland to be able to equal Boeing, but how could it be that simple?

The Comet airliners that Britain was now stuffing into the major colonies were filling the market. Together with France, Canada, Germany, India, Holland and Portugal, the UK has only sold nearly five hundred.

A little understanding of the international aviation market in the latter half of the world know that Boeing in the battle against Airbus advantage is quite large.

The fundamental reason is that the United States in the hands of major airlines, there are nearly nine thousand passenger aircraft. China is second with four thousand!

Russia, Canada, the UK, and Germany are all a thousand in size, and Air France only has five hundred. That means that these countries, including the UK, together are on par with the size of the US airlines.

Now China has negligible purchasing power, and without Russia there is only the USSR, which is sure to keep the market for its own airliners.

The entire Eastern European market can’t be counted on. Canada will give up at least half of its market to the US even if it balances between the UK and US, after all the two countries are too close.

Australia can be counted on, the rest of the countries, India is no more than China has the purchasing power, Japan is simply the United States of America’s own land, the British airliners in Japan to squeeze out Boeing is purely overthinking.

Also archipelagic countries, the potential market is not small and Indonesia, Indonesia wants to annex the Malayan colony is the enemy.

Counting on these countries might as well count on the Middle East tycoons being rich enough to be a market for Comet airliners.

Calculated, the Comet airliner to the United Kingdom still save the influence of the place are counted, plus the European markets, can not catch up with the size of a U.S. market, de Havilland and Boeing Company can fight evenly, are considered to be overplayed. A bad one is the Airbus 10,000 years old second position.

This will not change because the Comet has sold 500 airliners and Boeing has not sold a single one.

De Havilland company facing Boeing must be under great pressure, then we can only open another track, preemptive strike to seize the latter-day Canada and Brazil dominated regional airliner market. This may still have hope of victory.

After all, the United States for a long time, the regional airliner is not sensitive to, but in a wait-and-see state.

“In that case, it does seem that it won’t take Boeing more than a few years to compete with the Comet.” Pamela Mountbatten, after listening, also recognized her husband’s analysis, not like it was so easy at first.

“Anyone who buys a Comet airliner, let me yell NATO brain death all I want.” Alan Wilson took out the famous quote from French President Macron after the Airbus order was signed, and joked with his wife who had gotten a little serious.

Currently the Mountbatten Group had been involved in quite a wide range of areas after integrating the four major families in the Fragrant River. But the most valuable wealth remains Australian minerals and oil extraction in Libya, the Middle East and the North Sea.

The cash flow also had the Commonwealth Lottery business with Newfoundland at its core and the offshore center business, which was quite powerful even when looking at the entire world. The military industry is also just getting involved, but I believe that with huge capital to back it up, it will eventually gain a firm foothold in it.

However, the pitfalls are not without, minerals and oil need to be guarded by military forces, the current British can still do. But in the future can still do it?

Perhaps it should take the initiative to carry out some woe to the east, and this time period is also the right time.

Until now, the United States has been an exporter of steel, both steel and iron ore. The quality of iron ore from the US is not bad, and while it is not as good as Australia, it is much closer to Europe than Australia.

Australia sends its iron ore to Malaya, where it is roughly processed before being shipped to Europe. Even then the cost is higher than US iron ore. The reason Britain kept eating into it was because of the existence of the Imperial Preference System, which left Australia with a share.

Most of Australia’s iron ore is manufactured into steel for export through Malaya, so much for a model.

Once the US ends its history of exporting steel and becomes an importer of iron ore. Will find the value of Australian iron ore, Allen Wilson let his wife to suppress the potential reserves, but also to prevent being targeted.

It would not be considered safe until British capital had developed enough influence to create a positive cycle. So far, it was still not enough.

A supplier of raw materials of even better quality than the Australian iron ore was needed to attract the attention of the United States.

Such a supplier of raw materials also exists in the form of Brazil, which in the future will lie in bed with Australia in iron ore exports.

Brazil’s total reserves and quality are a little worse than Australia, but basically belong to a class. And now, Brazil also has a lot of mines have not been discovered, although Vale has been established for more than a decade.

Brazil Caracas iron ore mine, is the future of Brazil’s largest iron ore mine, the entire region retained iron ore reserves of 7.2 billion tons, the purity of iron ore is also the world’s top level, the iron ore has a high grade, low alumina content, less harmful impurities, sintering performance is good, is the world’s highest quality iron ore resources, is the biggest credentials of Brazil to become the world’s iron ore exporter.

If the Caracas iron ore mine is first discovered by the Mountbatten Group’s exploration team, the Mountbatten Group will be able to do the opposite of what it did in Australia, which was to depress the potential iron ore reserves in Australia, and exaggerate the potential reserves in Brazil.

In time it could attract the attention of the Americans who see the Americas as their backyard, and if the quality is consistent, the reserves are even larger. With its location in South America, it would surely attract the prying eyes of American capital.

Compared to Brazil, Australia is still a bit further away from the US in terms of distance. But the risk is also different, the kind of political environment in Brazil, there may be a military coup, if there is a military government, it will certainly not allow foreign capital to dominate.

Considering the potential political risks, Alan Wilson decided to point out a clear path for his wife, the talent to find minerals, to the warmth of South America, once the United States wants to joint venture or merger and acquisition, open a high price to cash.

Pamela Mountbatten did not question, in this regard, she has shown blind obedience to her husband. Since Alan Wilson analyzed the geological structure of Brazil and felt that there would be a large iron ore mine, it must exist.

It took little persuasion for Pamela Mountbatten to express her approval, only to inquire reflexively, “Paris wouldn’t be as shameless as Argentina, would it?”

“Anything can happen in that magical continent of South America. But setting the contract to see how the United States reacts and being ready to evacuate at any time should not be a problem.” Alan Wilson knew, of course, what Perón in Argentina had done when he came to power. For its part, Peron’s government adopted an economic policy of economic independence and nationalization, and also instituted two five-year plans for the development of industry and agriculture.

Doesn’t look too bad? But the money to push for independence and nationalization started with the confiscation of Anglo-American capital.

Not to mention the fact that after coming to power, Perón had been in a constant battle with Britain over the ownership of the Falkland Islands.

Under these circumstances, Pamela Mountbatten would be damned if she had a soft spot for South American countries.

Eventually trust in her husband outweighed her ill feelings toward Peron’s government, and Pamela Mountbatten called in her assistant, Zakharova, to begin laying out the exploratory tasks for her foray into the Americas.

“All Americans should elect me president.” Alan Wilson sighed in his mind as he contributed again to the special Anglo-American relationship.