“Captain Cook Project?”

Bovad was stunned for five seconds before remembering what Heinzel was talking about. Indeed, the EU once had a Captain Cook project, which seemed to be four or five years ago? The EU has done a lot of projects like this, but basically it is full of thunder and little rain. The EU allocates funds for these projects every year, and these projects only have a sense of presence when they are allocated, and seem to disappear on weekdays.

Of course, EU officials are not just a person who is a corpse. As for not all of them, they are like this? They will repeatedly make some good suggestions, including large-scale R&D projects like Captain Cook that aims to maintain Europe's technological leadership. However, the plan is easy to propose, but it is very troublesome to do things. It is said that Captain Cook's project encountered countless obstacles during the implementation process, such as funding problems, collaboration problems, and patent problems. Almost every step forward, the officials who first proposed this plan lost their enthusiasm, and the matter gradually became silent. Only the EU's financial department is still allocating daily operation funds year after year to support more than a dozen officials in the project committee.

Bowad is an official in charge of economics and business, so he has some understanding of the Captain Cook project. In his impression, there has been no movement in this project for at least a year, so when Heinzel first talked about this project, Bowad felt a little unfamiliar.

"Yeah, I remember this project." After a brief loss of mind, Bovad replied in a concealed manner, "By the way, I remember that Pumai Company is also one of the participating companies in the project. Why, has this project progressed?"

"Yes, we, together with other collaborative companies, have completed the overall design of the sixth generation deep-sea semi-submersible drilling platform." Heinzel replied.

"Please allow me to congratulate you," Bovad said hypocritically.

Heinzel's face was not proud or moved at all. He said: "Mr. Bowad, I hope the EU can intervene in this project, otherwise all the results we have achieved in the early stage will be gone."

Bowad was stunned: "What does it mean?"

"Norwegian Biltu Petroleum Corporation is preparing to build two new deep-sea oil rigs. We hope they adopt the results of Captain Cook's project, but they chose the Chinese as the supplier of equipment," Heinzel said.

"Chinese?" Bowad felt a little bigger. Why is this related to Chinese again?

Heinzel said: "The Chinese stole the technology of our European companies on the deep-sea oil platform and developed their own sixth-generation deep-sea platform, becoming our competitive product. After we learned that Billtu was preparing to build two new deep-sea platforms, we quickly contacted them, but they said they were more willing to use the Chinese technology."

"Have Billtu said the reason?" Boward asked.

"They say that the Chinese are more mature in technology," Heinzel said.

"How is this possible!" Bovard subconsciously refuted. Although he had forgotten the Captain Cook project before, he could still remember a lot of details once he was reminded. He remembered that the Chinese had only mastered the technology of the second-generation platform a few years ago, while the Europeans had rich experience in the fifth-generation platform. A few years later, some people actually said that the Chinese had more mature technology on the sixth-generation platform, while the Europeans were not as good as the Chinese. Isn't this nonsense?

Heinzel shrugged and said, "My view is exactly the same as you. I think the view of Billtu is completely incorrect. We suspect that the Chinese have adopted some unfair competition measures when conducting their business. We hope that the European Commission can investigate the matter and safeguard the rights and interests of our European companies."

"Is this a formal request from your company?" Bovard asked.

Heinzel said: "Yes, we will submit the formal application to the EU within today."

"We will start the investigation as soon as possible," Bovard promised. "However, the investigation will take a cycle, which I hope Mr. Heinzel understands."

"I can fully understand." Heinzel seemed to speak very well. "Given that this issue is very complicated, which may involve some business bribery issues, we recommend that the European Commission conduct investigations with caution and no need to worry about time."

"Uh?" Boward was stunned. What rhythm is this? Shouldn't Heinzel urge him to investigate quickly? Why does this sound like he was suggesting that he would be delaying?

Heinzel said with a cold face: "Of course, during the investigation, we hope that the EU can issue a trade ban to suspend the introduction of deep-sea oil platform technology from China, so as to avoid the Chinese using the time difference in the investigation to achieve their goals."

"I get it. I think we'll do that."

Bovad really understood this time. It turned out that Heinzl's purpose was to let the EU drag this matter for a while, provided that during this period, the Chinese could not sell their technology to Europe. As a local European company, Pumai Company will certainly not be affected by this ban. In other words, Heinzl's accusations are likely to be false, but as long as the EU accepts their request and conducts an investigation into the matter, they can ask the EU to prevent Chinese people from participating in this business in the name of an investigation, so Pumai's opportunity will come.

What a fun!

Bovad, who saw through Heinzel's intention, cursed in his heart. It was obvious that you are not as skilled as others, maybe the price was expensive and the service was poor, so that European users were unwilling to accept your products. They would rather travel thousands of miles to find Chinese people to manufacture them. As a result, you pretended to be wronged and let the EU stand out for you. The famous Pumai Company and a top European company, aren't you embarrassed to use this despicable means to compete with a developing country's companies?

Thinking of this in his heart, Bovard had to accept Heinzel's request. There was no other reason. The EU was an institution that did such dirty work, and it was even more despicable. The EU had not agreed. In any case, he had to figure out the whole story first, and at least give Pumai a tenable explanation.

Pumai Company really sent a formal official letter to the European Commission on the same day, asking the EU to investigate the deep-sea oil platform products exported to Europe. Pumai Company listed several crimes of Chinese products in the official letter, including infringement of intellectual property rights of European companies, dumping, suspected unfair competition, suspected violation of EU technical safety regulations, etc. Some reasons are extremely nonsensical, such as a part used in Chinese equipment may be manufactured by a prison factory, which will violate the EU's regulations on protecting labor rights...

When Bowad received the official letter, he sighed in his heart and reported to his boss. Then he took his assistant Emilene to Norway. One of the parties involved in this matter was Billtu's company in Norway. Bowad had to listen to Billtu's opinions.

"Yes, we did choose China's Luoye Group as the general contractor for this project. They can provide us with a sixth-generation semi-submersible deep-sea drilling platform that meets the requirements." Billtu's ceo McQuig bluntly answered Bowad's inquiry. The European Commission does not have direct jurisdiction over these companies, so companies can ignore EU officials. Of course, considering that perhaps the EU needs to provide some convenience for itself at some point, companies will not be too cold to EU officials, but will maintain a respectful attitude.

"Can't European companies provide such technology? When the EU launched the Captain Cook project, Billtu also provided support. Why don't you consider adopting the results of the Captain Cook project?" asked Bovard.

McQuig showed a sarcastic expression and asked, "Mr. Boward, if I guess correctly, it should be Mr. Heinzel of Pumé Company who went to the EU to file a lawsuit?"

"That's right." Bovard nodded. McQuig was able to point out Heinzel's name directly, obviously they had already fought before. This circle is not very big, and others can understand who is like a person.

McQuig asked: "Mr. Boward, has Heinzel ever said what level of their technology has been developed at present."

“Yes, he said they have finished the overall design.”

"That's right," McQuig said. "If I remember correctly, Captain Cook project was launched five years ago, and to this day they have only completed the overall design, and the overall design they have completed has not been well demonstrated, or more directly, they have only spent an hour drawing a sketch and claiming it was their overall design."

"No?" Boward was shocked. He actually said this. He recalled what Heinzel said to him and was a little shocked. What Heinzel said was indeed completed the overall design, but this was full of mystery. The overall concept design can also be regarded as the overall design, but this does not mean anything, because the concept design is too easy. Just as McQuig said, drawing a sketch can also be regarded as the completion.

"But, what step did the Chinese have done?" Emilen asked from the side.
Chapter completed!