Chapter: 6565

Li Yalin rushed forward at this time and asked him in French, "Where is the highest authority figure here?"

The other party answered honestly, "Our vice manager is currently on duty at the office."

Li Yalin nodded his head: "Take us to see him."

Immediately, he said: "Follow me."

As soon as he spoke, he turned around and stepped into the door, walking towards the second floor.

Ye Chen and Li Yalin followed behind him, arriving at the end of the second-floor corridor.

He pointed to the office door, and Li Yalin walked up front to knock twice, with someone inside also speaking in French: "Come in."

Li Yalin pushed open the door and entered, with Ye Chen following closely behind. The person saw the two of them, looking somewhat surprised, and asked: "Who are you?"

Just as he spoke, he was also subjected to a psychological hint by Ye Chen.

"Then Ye Chen turned to Li Yalin and said: 'Detective Li, ask him to introduce us to the operation mode here and record of cargo transportation by Duke Mining, if possible. If there are records of train schedules, that would be even better.'"

Li Yalin immediately asked the other party in French, and then introduced them to the general situation around here.

Mauritania extracts almost 4 million tons of phosphate ore every year, with over 1 million tons used for export, the rest being used to produce over 2 million tons of phosphate-derived products for further export, mainly fertilizers. Most of these goods are shipped out to various parts of the world, and some are consumed by African countries other than Morocco, while the rest are mostly exported from Casablanca Port.

The trains entering or leaving the port do not operate on a 24-hour schedule, but rather operate for 14 hours daily, from 7 am to 9 pm. Tonight, two cargo trains will arrive in the next half hour, and after they arrive, there will be no more trains arriving tonight, so the management can go off duty, leaving only the two of them on night shift.

However, the goods yard operates around the clock without interruption. Trains arriving at night need to unload cargo overnight, and many goods that need to depart early the next morning also need to complete loading by night.

Mauritania's main rail network is basically owned by Morocco National Railways Corporation, which is all under the management of Morocco Railway.

However, since this is a port infrastructure facility, the transportation management department inside the terminal is responsible for it.

As for all trains, train-related staff, including drivers and maintenance personnel, are all employees of Morocco Railway.

The schedule of cargo trains is also managed by Morocco Railway. Here, only responsible for receiving schedules, arranging goods to be loaded in accordance with train schedules, and parking trains at designated locations at specified times."

Duke Mining's area is located in the core phosphate production zone of Mauritania, approximately 200 kilometers away from here, right on the phosphate transportation rail line.

Phosphate rail line, which is invested and constructed by Morocco National Railways Corporation, passes through every large-scale phosphate enterprise along the way. Each enterprise can pay Morocco Railway to build a branch line directly into their facilities for convenient train passage and reduced transportation costs.

In addition to paying construction fees to Morocco Railway, enterprises that connect to the mainline also need to make periodic payments to the national railway as well as transportation fees generated by specific transport productions.

However, despite this, unit transportation costs are much cheaper than using cars.

Duke Mining is not the largest phosphate enterprise here, but its scale is medium-sized. It produces around one million tons of phosphates per year and does not engage in derivative product production. All produced phosphates are exported, so they have a train departing from Duke Mining every day carrying phosphates to the port.

Coincidentally, both parties learned that the last cargo train planned for tonight's schedule is indeed coming from Duke Mining.

This train is expected to arrive at around 8:45 PM. Tomorrow's cargo train schedule also has a train heading to Duke Mining, which means that Duke Mining already has a batch of imported goods arriving at port and will be transported back in the morning. JrNovels.com