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2nd Kalistani Merchant Fleet prepares to travel to Majatran Sea
Aims to duplicate the Success of Captain Creighton
Sulari, Suldanor
April 7, 5090


Mariners aboard Cap. James Coltrane's Flagship, KMS Torrence, prepare to launch a second expedition to the Majatran Sea

The Kalistani Navy might be in serious need of upgrading, but the Merchant Marine fleet of the Republic remains among the top fleets in the Anantonese Ocean. Seven years ago, Mariner Captain Marcus Creighton sailed a massive fleet to the Majatran Sea, and spend the better part of the year selling Kalistani goods, petroleum, arms, and ODEN products to Majatran Nations.

Now another Merchant captain James Coletrane, aims to duplicate the feat. The Merchant fleet he is assembling in Sulari will carry millions of rubles worth of trade goods to the same waters this fall. "We were able to sail with impunity, and to our knowledge, the situation in the region has not significantly changed within the last seven years. So: It makes sense to put together a new expedition to the Majatran Sea."

Coltrane is putting together a floating caravan of trade goods similar to the one Creighton assembled. "We won't be selling any oil, though," said Coltrane. "We have noted that in Creighton's expedition, most of the oil was either sold at a severe discount or returned to KALNAPECO. It seems that bringing a commodity like petroleum to an area of the world where its supply is abundant, even if it is tightly controlled. We had far more success with the other items: guns and ammunition, and drugs, especially. Buyers demonstrated that there is a huge market for substances, illicit or otherwise, in the region, and heavy and inexplicable government prohibition only increases demand and profitability to smugglers and black market actors."

As for Kalistan, Coltrane aims to merely be the supplier. "Like Creighton, we'll be the fleet who brings the things the people want to them. You gotta go where the customers are after all. We'll sell to distributors, who will of course take the goods and retail them. After the distributors take the stuff off our hands, what happens to the stuff is no longer our concern." His intention is to carry all manner of licit trade goods and sell them in international waters. Things like clothes, cars, machine parts, raw plastics, food and that sort of thing. "But the real money is in the things that these governments ban. Since they refuse to import Kalistani Goods that they have some hypocritical objection to, we will simply provide yet another floating market for entrepreneurs to acquire their own supply of these goods for their own domestic markets."

Coltrane has said his fleet will be assembled by early September, and will set sail for the Majatran aiming to arrive in October. A film crew will join Coltrane to document the journey for a documentary film on Kalistani Merchant Marines.