44 SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

At Xue Shipping.

The executives of Xue Shipping were gathered in the conference room. Yet another crisis had befallen them.

Their marine tanker MT Urgent Sunset had been overstaying at a port in Japan. It had unfortunately missed its docking window so it was bumped off indefinitely. Unfortunately, Japan will be observing an annual week-long holiday, and all the operations, plants and ports will be closed. It was estimated that MT Urgent Sunset will be overstaying for at least two weeks. The analogy was like making a metered taxi wait indefinitely. In business and layman terms, it's a loss of about five billion yuans!

It was only a conservative figure, as the port will only open after a week. Once it opened, there was no fixed berthing line up yet. The vessel will wait so much longer, and incur even larger monetary penalty for Xue Shipping.

"What is the latest news?" The COO asked with knitted brows.