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Source: Elena Powell, CDC Managing Director
Destination: Bowex)
Subject: Ship component delivery

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Good day,

We've recieved a sizable order for Superstructure Systems from Bristol Constructions and Manufacturing, we would hereby like to sign on Bowex) to ship this order to the destination port, Akutan Production Facility in the Bering system.

The size of the order is 573 Superstructure Systems packages, coming to $8,595,000 standard Credits at market value. Needless to say this is a sizable shipment and of considerable risk factor.

Please get back to me as soon as possible if you are able to take this order, with the shipping fee that Bowex) would like to charge for the order. Bristol wish the units to be transported ASAP.

Regards,

Elena Powell, Coleraine Distribution Centre Managing Director

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11th October 834 A.S.

To: Elena Powell, GF CDC MD
Priority: Regular
Topic: Ship component delivery

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Ms Powell

It is excellent to hear from our colleagues in GF again. Incidentally, we have also been in contact with Bristol recently regarding a similar matter. In the interest of cutting directly to the chase, we would of course be happy to courier BMM produced goods directly to your clients. BMM and Bowex's partnership is as natural and inevitable as Gateway and bankruptcy, after all.

Shipping fees will generally vary depending on the length of route being chartered, and any risk premium that needs to be applied to offset insurance rates and probability of harm. Typically, we would abstract all of the aforementioned factors into an average shipping rate of 12 cents per second, per volume unit.

Now, it is worth noting that Bowex has recently carried out a surplus productive capacity audit of Scarborough Shipyard, and found that there were areas of slack capacity that were being bottlenecked by shortfalls in plant infrastructure necessary for assembly. As a workaround to this issue, we are shipping part-completed ship components to Andover Station in Cambridge for final assembly, from where they can be exported onward to end clients.

While this does rather put us in the same marketplace as competitors, I had hoped we (and any other interested autonomous BMM operations) could come together in the spirit of collegial cooperation to set minimum price thresholds, and potentially institute order pooling for rapid production scaling when needed.

Cartel price fixing is such a dirty word - I prefer to think of this as maximising value for our Royal Charters and the Bretonian public. Let me know what you think.

Yours faithfully

Mr Andrew Peterson
Senior Trade Manager
Border World Exports

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Source: Elena Powell, CDC Managing Director
Destination: Bowex)
Subject: Ship component delivery

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To Andrew Peterson,

After discussing the amount we would like to offer a contract of $2,000,000 standard Credits for the delivery of 573 Superstructure Systems packages to Akutan Production Facility in the Bering system.

In the interests of protecting such trade deals we will also be dispatching our own escort services, if desired, to assist your transportation.

Regards,

Elena Powell, Coleraine Distribution Centre Managing Director

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