This is really not the fault of ASML.
They were packed and boxed according to the contract and sent to the Amsterdam port, where there are container ships from the Four Seasons Group Freight Company that can go directly to Hong Kong.
The journey out of Europe was smooth, but we were stopped once we entered the Mediterranean.
It was the Italian police who stopped the people, but Italy was also commissioned by the United States and the CoCom to intercept the ship.
The reason was that they received a report that they suspected there were contraband items on board the ship that were prohibited from trading by the Coordinating Committee of the United Nations.
This excuse is too broad. The ships used by Four Seasons Cargo fly the Hong Kong flag. The Americans dare to do this, so they must have obtained the tacit approval of the British government.
It has only been four years since 1997, and these red-nosed people have already started to sabotage Hong Kong, plant bombs, and find agents.
The founder of Four Seasons Group is Chen Xia, a mainlander. This fact cannot be concealed from foreign countries, so it is not surprising that he is targeted.
Why would you buy five state-of-the-art wafer production lines? It's natural for people to be skeptical.
But they didn't say they were checking your wafer production line. After all, Hong Kong is not on the embargo list, so there is no reason to seal it off.
So they just said they would check your contraband. As to what the contraband is, it will be kept secret. We will tell you after they check.
The cargo ship in charge of this transport belongs to the freight branch of Four Seasons Group. The company's business scope includes Pier 6 on the Hong Kong River and more than 30 large and small cargo ships (including 20 cargo ships knocked from the Bamboo Gang).
The company is mainly self-sufficient in freight transportation within the Four Seasons Group, and has excess space to transport containers from other companies.
The transport ship going to Ho Nan this time was the "Kowloon No. 3", which originally carried a lot of raw materials from Europe and was going to be transferred to Yuezhou via the Hong Kong River. By the way, it also transported 5 wafer production lines back.
Captain Zhan Guohao originally thought that this would be a very simple transport journey, but it was intercepted before it even left Europe and stopped at the port of Marsala.
As a sailor with many years of experience and rich experience in emergency response, Zhan Guohao had never encountered such a situation of seizure of ships and cargoes from other countries, so he knew that there must be something fishy going on.
So when a group of white people threatened to board the ship for inspection, Zhan Guohao and a group of sailors resolutely stopped them.
The reason is simple: what qualifications do the Italian police have to seize our Xiangjiang company's ships and cargo? And what qualifications do they have to board the ship for inspection?
Do you have a search warrant? What evidence do you have?
The Italian police are now a little confused.
The country of Italy is known as the "Pig of Southern Europe". They are incompetent at everything and eat everything without leaving any residue. Their performance in World War II has proved that they are typical "pig teammates".
Now seeing that the Hong Kong cargo ships are so tough, these police did not force them, but simply detained these ships according to the requirements of COCOM. As for what to do next, they don't bother to care, you can do whatever you want.
Zhan Guohao then immediately contacted the headquarters urgently, and it finally came into the hands of Chen Xia.
Of course Chen Xia jumped up. This was a production line worth more than 2 billion US dollars. If anything happened to it, it would be like taking advantage of his money.
Chen Xia had seen too many of the faces of the United States, Britain and other countries on TV in the future. They would make trouble when there was a reason and find fault when there was no reason. Anyway, once the wafer production line fell into their hands, there would be no return.
We must get the production line before they take action.
If this happened in another country, it would definitely be reported to the country as it would be an infringement of sovereignty. However, Hong Kong can only be considered a colony at this time. Who can we appeal to?
The British Hong Kong government would like Hong Kong to be as chaotic as possible, so why would they care about you?
You can only rely on self-help.
So Chen Xia immediately boarded a private plane and flew to the port of Marsala on Sicily.
The next day, when Chen Xia appeared at the port, he found that the Kowloon No. 3 cargo ship had been taken under control by the Italian police. Although they did not board the ship, the port was full of police officers.
When Chen Xia protested in the name of the company that owned the cargo ship, the Italian police remained nonchalant.
For example, the chief of the port police station complained in unstandard English:
"Chen, I know the medicine your company produces. Wow, it's really a miracle cure. It even cured my stomach ailment. You can see the current situation. It's not that we want to embarrass you. We are just following orders. Otherwise, who would be willing to come to the dock to bask in the sun?"
But you can wait patiently. When the search warrant that COCOM has applied for arrives tomorrow, they will board the ship to search for contraband. Then you will know immediately whether you have been wrongly accused or not."
Chen Xia got a message from this sentence that the search warrant would arrive tomorrow.
He could imagine that once these red-nosed people boarded the ship, as long as they found the wafer production line, they would definitely take it back as "suspicious" items for careful inspection, and then these suspicious items would definitely become "missing" items in the end.
Chen Xia looked at the 50,000-ton container ship in front of him. If it were someone else, it would be impossible for them to escape even with wings.
But who is Chen Xia? Isn't he the professional "speculator" of the past? With him, how could these wafer production lines be shut down?
That night, Chen Xiaye slept on the Kowloon No. 3 ship.
It was also on that night that Chen Xia called Zhan Guohao over.
"Chairman, what do you want?"
"Captain Zhan, you must immediately fetch the ASML shipping documents and give them to me. Also, at midnight, you must cut off all power on board and instruct all crew members to remain in their rooms. Do not leave at any time tonight. Do you understand?"
Zhan Guohao broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this and quickly advised:
"Chairman, a ship this big has been fixed to the dock, and the fixed point is guarded by the police. We can't run away. If we run away, they will really make trouble."
Chen Xia was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"Who said I was going to run away? I've bribed the port tonight, and someone will come to help us transport some of our goods. That's why I told you all to hide in your rooms and not go out."
When Zhan Guohao heard this, he felt relieved, but at the same time he secretly thought that there were indeed contraband on the ship.
However, the fact that his boss was able to buy off the port in such a short time shows that he is extraordinary. He is just on the ship and knows that some things are safer not to know.
In fact, Chen Xia didn't have the ability to bribe the port's top management. He was clearly looking for an excuse to avoid being suspected by his own crew members.
Late that night, without anyone noticing, Chen Xia quietly moved dozens of containers containing round crystal production lines to the space hospital and pasted all the labels on other containers.
The Italian police at the dock were still fast asleep.
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