Luthori

[Ligbruderkrieg]

Crippled shipping industry embraces Mordusian partnership and hope create close trading partners in Seleya.
October 5638



Fort William - For a long time now, Luthori's foreign relations have remained stagnant, and in consequences, Luthori's commercial partners remained the same, without any bold move to their relationship being made by either parties. The stagnation experienced in Luthori and the rapidly changing dynamics in foreign relations and commercial weight of each continent seems to have driven the Luthorian shipping industry, which has been considered as being crippled ever since the Lost Souls War and stagnant since its recovery towards an increased interest towards solidifying Luthori's existing trading partnerships.

In Seleya, Luthori's trading partners collapsed with the severing of relations between Fort William and Kensington (Lodamun) and Fort William and Clovisport (Likatonia), effectively neutering Luthorian access to goods from Northern Seleya, as Luthorian trading partners either drifted away from Fort William in search for new economic and commercial partners or effectively were neutered economically. That means that the last bastion of Luthorian-Seleyan trade lays in Mordusia. The Commonwealth of Mordusia remains Luthori's most reliable and trustworthy partner in the Seleyan continent and Luthori-Mordusian trade was expected to grow after the weakening of Luthori's trade links with other nations such as Aldegar, Lodamun and Likatonia.

It wasn't to be, as stated, Luthori's own economic problems drastically reduced trade between Luthori and other nations, with studies stating that Luthorian trade has been in decline ever since the beginning of the century, and now Luthorian businesses, looking towards the future without interference from the Labour Government in difficulty in the Chamber of Representatives, seems to be looking towards a renewal of Luthori's connection with its first and most trustworthy economic partners, and that's where Mordusia comes into play.

Mordusia is one of Seleya's largest economy, being nonetheless behind the Kalistani and Lodamese economies in terms of raw numbers, but still representing an enormous potential overall, and it has been, weirdly enough considering the character of these said companies, relatively left untouched by Luthorian finances and corporations, at the benefit of other economic powers in the region such as Aldegar or Kanjor. Recent developments seems to have encouraged the Luthorians to consider their cards and to reassess their foreign policy in light of the unspeakable truth, that the West is declining and the East rising at an alarming level.

Seleyan markets aren't the most amicable to Luthorian businesses, we can remember the tensions originating from these between Kalistan and Luthori during the 5490s, tensions that might rise up for another time if Luthori pursue its (formerly) aggressive and ruthless approach to economic diplomacy. A slow and reasonable approach, focused towards long-time partners and friends might be the way forward for the Empire to find some form of relevance in this increasingly changing world order, with dynamics changing rapidly towards an entrenched multipolar world, that said policy will reassure ties between Luthori and other states while not alienating the Luthorians from potential partners.

It should be noted though, that this policy is largely engaged by corporations and not the Imperial Government itself, it remains to be seen if these will be followed in the grim and shadowy halls of Bismarck Palace. The Southern Shipping Corporation (SSC) is expecting in its latest study that the Mordusian-Luthorian bilateral trade is expecting to rise by 3.8 % in the next year, especially as Luthorian goods might find an interested partner and customer in Mordusia, which is speaking the same language and linked culturally to Luthori.