Plot synopsis:
The movie was originally about an Italian gangster who wanted to get back out of the world, so he purchased 5,000 kilograms of cocaine from a Mexican drug lord. Once this shipment was successfully smuggled into Italy, his position in the mafia would be stable. But in the drug industry, it is very difficult to secretly transport it without the government, not to mention that it involves such a large sum of money at one time. Once the money and goods are in trouble, one's own comeback plan, and even one's own old one. Life is all over.
Fortunately, there is an international freight shipping company that is on the verge of bankruptcy and can't help the temptation of interests, and is ready to use his half-life experience in international transportation to take on this batch of jobs. He bought the shipment from the Mexican drug lord at his own expense, assuming the shipping risk and making the difference.
Because his family is employed at sea all the year round, the customs clearance links along the way are handy. However, an unexpected internal accident caused the container full of drugs to be accidentally transported into the warehouse of the Senegalese customs, and was waiting to be inspected by the local customs at any time.
At the critical moment, they robbed the cargo late at night, walked along the jihadist area without legal supervision, and finally overcame many difficulties and safely transported the cargo to the Italian port.
During these tough times, he also established strong relationships with Mexican and Italian drug lords, and a generation of drug brokers was born.
Anyone who has been engaged in the foreign trade industry can see that this so-called American drug broker was actually a shipping company in international trade before it was hacked, and the industry called them international freight forwarders.
First, let's understand the term
International freight forwarding agent (International freight forwarding agent) is referred to as international freight forwarding, which means that international freight forwarding organization accepts the entrustment of the consignee and consignor of import and export goods, and handles international freight transportation and related related matters for the consignor in the name of the consignor or itself. Businesses and industries that receive remuneration for labor services.
Freight forwarding is divided into several modes of transportation: sea, land, air and combined transportation. In our movie, American brokers are mainly freight forwarders who belong to the sea, that is, they have their own shipping companies and their own fixed routes. Container transportation, customs clearance, and insurance on a fixed route to make profits. Of course, these were all legitimate sources of income before their family business went black.
We can refer to Maersk
Maersk Line is the world's largest container shipping company. It was reorganized by Maersk Sealand after merging with P&O Nedlloyd. It accounts for 17% of the world's container shipping market. Owns and operates more than 500 container ships and 1.5 million containers
It can be seen from the movie that the shipping company family has 45 self-operated ships, with an average capacity of 4,000 containers per ship. It can be said that it is a small number of Maersk Shipping Company. It is just a microcosm of the real world Maersk Shipping Company. You must know that Maersk also started out as a pirate business and gradually developed into a world-class shipping company.
So what is the reason for a legitimate company with a small global influence to take risks and engage in the dirty drug industry? Of course, two words can explain all this, "profit"
Shipping company profit:
If you want to know the profit of the shipping company, you must first understand how their batch of drugs flows between buyers, middlemen, and sellers
First, the Italian buyer pays the shipping company, and the CIF trade terms are used. Then the shipping company bears all the freight and risks, and then the shipping company settles the money to the Mexican seller in batches.
Therefore, the profit of the shipping company is divided into two parts:
The first part is the profit of drugs bought from Mexican drug lords: spend 63 million to buy 70 million cocaine from Mexican drug lords (of which 31 million is prepaid and 32 million is the final payment), with a gross profit of 7 million
Use this gross profit to pay for the transportation cost of drugs. According to the CIF terms of international cargo transportation, the transportation cost is the customs clearance and loading fee of the Mexican port + the sea freight of the Mexican port to the Italian port + insurance fee, and the customs clearance, unloading and storage fee of the Italian port of Gioia Tauro.
Because the ship had an accident on the way, it stopped at the port of Senegal in the middle, and from here the drugs were transported through Mali to the port of Casablanca in Morocco. At this time, the cost of the shipping company suddenly increased. On the original CIF terms, plus the land customs clearance fee from Senegal to Casablanca (actually the customs clearance fee), and then add the shipping fee from Casablanca to Gioia Tauro port. .
Subtract the amount of the above trade terms from 7 million, and then the net profit of the shipping company in the transportation part.
The second part is the payment paid to her by the Italian buyer (the purchase price that the old man bought from her was not found from beginning to end)
Personally, I feel that this part is the bulk of the shipping company's profit. After all, the above part of the profit is not much left after seven reductions and eight reductions~
The profit of this batch of drugs is: the median price of selling drugs + (7 million US dollars - shipping), collectively referred to as x
If the shipping company family makes a year's profit from serious business,
The profit of a ship in 1 year is approximately equal to the profit of transporting drugs for 3 weeks x
Their family has a total of 45 ships. It can be known that their family can earn 45x a year if they do serious transportation business.
(The formula is put here first, because I really can't find the money she sold to the Italian old man. When I find it later, I will definitely replace this formula)
Let's take a look at the shipping chart of this batch of drug shipments, hoping to help you form an intuitive concept in your mind while watching the movie, and to better understand the hardships of the shipping company family.
their original route
Initially declare the CIF price of 2 containers of canned jalapeños to customs, from the port of origin: Mexico, the port of Monterrey (MONTERREY), by sea to the port of destination: Italy, the port of GIOIA TAURO (GIOIA TAURO)
I checked, and it takes about 30 days for the shipping time. The 3 weeks mentioned in the movie is a bit too fast, and the shipping by sea often delays the voyage due to hurricanes, or the coordination of loading and unloading goods at the terminal and customs supervision, so the time is only Will be longer than this, no sooner.
Due to an accident, the shipment was forced to change the route
The ship docked at the port of Senegal (SENEGAL), and was then robbed from the customs warehouse by the agent, passed the Mali Jihad, and went all the way north to the port of Casablanca, Morocco (CASABLANCA).
It is then transported by ship to the warehouse in GIOIA TAURO, Italy. Finally, the Italian old man can only pick up the goods with the container number given by Emma.
Marked in green in the picture, not only did the transportation time increase during this process (except for driving on the road, the protagonist was pulled out by the jihadists and came back after a battle, which shows how long the transportation of this batch of goods was delayed), but also increased a lot of money spent, such as
① Bribe to Senegalese customs twice: unknown
② Local agent fee: unknown
③ Senebar customs clearance fee 50 kg
④ Jihad protection fee 100kg
⑤ Morocco, Casablanca port - Italy, CIF price of Gioia Tauro port
Professionals all know that this transportation was originally based on CIF trade terms. After such a tossing, it was land transportation and evasion of inspection. The actual shipping company's transportation terms have been upgraded to DDU (this trade term is rarely used in international trade. See, generally, it is the cargo agent who is very handy with the transportation route to make the DDU clause, which also confirms how strong the execution of the shipping company family is from the side)
At the end of the movie, Emma (our international freight forwarder) completed the transportation of this shipment at the expense of the old man and the younger brother, and established a solid cooperative relationship with upstream and downstream organizations.
As a result, our international freight forwarder has fought a beautiful turnaround and successfully transformed into a drug broker across several continents.
Btw, if I can do such a gorgeous turn when I'm doing foreign trade, I'll die without regrets. I didn't say anything, I quickly went to check the information on canned jalapenos~~
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