Chapter 656 Kolo Airlines

"For the development of Kolo, routes between major cities are also very important. In previous visits to various European countries, we have already determined some routes. This time when we go to China, we will also discuss cooperation in this area."

What Jammeh Bongo talked about with Barron was the newly established Kolo Airlines.

Before this, Kolo only had a few flights in cooperation with Pan African Airlines. Whether it was from Europe or Asia to Kolo, it required complicated transfers, which was very troublesome.

Before, when the Friendship Insurance Group acquired AIA from the American International Group, it also reached an agreement in a package. The Cavendish Trust Fund and the Global Industrial Investment Fund acquired the International Leasing Finance Company with more than 1,000 aircraft for US$5.5 billion and renamed it Global Leasing Finance Company.

In this company, the Cavendish Trust Fund holds 60% of the shares, and the remaining 40% is held by the GII Fund.

Therefore, Kolo Airlines, which was jointly funded by the Kolo government and the West African Group (West African Group holds 60% and Kolo National Development Investment Company holds 40%), does not need to purchase new aircraft, but only needs to lease passenger aircraft from Global Leasing Finance Company.

At present, Kolo Airlines has finalized the routes from Lomé Airport and Britta Airport to the capitals of these European countries with the United Kingdom and other countries, as well as flights between some important cities in Africa.

Next, during this visit to China, Jammeh Bongo will also negotiate with the other party to finalize the routes from Yanjing, Shanghai and other cities to Kolo.

Speaking of which, as Kolo has an important trade port in West Africa and a cargo transshipment hub in West Africa, and as a country that has always been friendly to China, it will not be too difficult to open these routes.

After all, in the development of the new Kolo government, the exchanges with China are still very close, and Chinese companies are present in many infrastructure projects in Kolo.

Opening direct routes between the two sides will also facilitate the smooth progress of these cooperation.

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Several helicopters landed on the runway of the airport one after another.

A dozen bodyguards in suits and sunglasses came down from the first two helicopters, and then walked to the third helicopter. Among the guards, Barron came down, and Zhang Junning, who was wearing a gun-gray suit and skirt and holding a briefcase, followed closely behind.

Not far from these helicopters, on the wide runway of the airport, the Devonshire was huge and quietly waiting for Barron and his party.

"Your Highness, you are here..."

Alia, the life assistant who was waiting on the Devonshire, took Barron's coat after he boarded the plane and followed him.

"Get ready to go."

"Okay."

After Jame Bongo left Australia, Barron was also ready to go to America.

Although Argos Retail Group successfully completed the acquisition of Costco before this, DS Group suffered a small setback in Nvidia's financing - in that financing, DS Group only obtained 20% of the new stock quota. This time when Barron went to America, he needed to have a good talk with the bigwigs of Vanguard Group and BlackRock Group.

Of course, Barron also understood that if he initially allowed Vanguard Group to allow the other party to invest in United Energy Group in exchange for part of their holdings in Nvidia, at that time, Nvidia was in a critical period of transformation.

Now Nvidia's transformation has obviously been successful, and even if it encountered the subprime mortgage crisis, its stock price quickly rebounded due to the good performance of their company, which also made Vanguard Group see the potential of this company again.

And the accuracy of Barron's investment has always been praised by people, which inevitably brought side effects, that is, more and more investment companies are studying Barron's investment direction - Vanguard Group is naturally no exception, so it means that Barron's possibility of "picking up leaks" from those institutions is getting lower and lower.

Seeing that Barron has been increasing his holdings in Nvidia, it is not surprising that American capital, including Vanguard and BlackRock, will be more actively involved in Nvidia's new stock issuance.

After all, although DS Group has completed mutual holdings with Vanguard and BlackRock, this only means that they have certain common interests in the macro field.

But there is still competition between them - in the United States, investment giants such as Vanguard and BlackRock are still more competitive than DS Group, so it is not surprising that Nvidia's new stock issuance will give these capitals more shares.

"Barron, isn't Argos Retail Group planning to issue stocks in the United States?"

Sure enough, this time when they met, Vanguard and BlackRock played Tai Chi very smoothly for Nvidia, and they are all old foxes.

And Larry Fink of BlackRock also asked such a question. It is obvious that after seeing Argos Retail Group complete the acquisition of Costco, he also became interested in this company.

Baron doesn't mind their participation in the Argos Retail Group. After all, in the competition with companies like Amazon and Walmart, the Argos Retail Group is bound to burn money during this period.

"Now is not the right time. After all, you know, the stock market is too depressed. It is not suitable for Argos to go public in the United States..."

Barron shrugged and said.

There is nothing wrong with what he said. Now is not the right time to go public. Even if it goes public, the funds that can be raised will be much less than normal.

There are many companies waiting to go public, and they have postponed the time of listing.

And...

"Didn't you invest in Amazon?"

"Yes, Barron, we are interested in investing in any company we like, even if they compete with each other."

Larry Fink said without any concern:

"Just like you, didn't you invest in Google?"

In fact, not only did he never sell Google's shares before, but the Mars Fund even held shares in Amazon.

"I won't hold it forever, but the time is not right now."

"Really? Then I hope you can tell me secretly when you are ready to reduce your holdings."

Hearing Larry Fink's words, Barron smiled and asked:

"Do you trust my judgment so much, Mr. Fink?"

"At least that is a more reliable judgment, isn't it? Besides, I can't think of anyone whose judgment is more accurate than yours, Your Highness."