Guangzhou Nansha Automobile Port exported more than 400,000 vehicles in the first nine months, a year-on-year increase of 36%

China News Service, Guangzhou, October 4 (Xu Qingqing, Guan Yue) According to Guangzhou Customs, automobile exports at Guangzhou Nansha Port have maintained a strong growth trend, and export categories have further expanded. In the first nine months of this year, Guangzhou Nansha Automobile Port exported more than 400,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of about 36%. Among them, the value of exported engineering vehicles was approximately 2 billion yuan, an increase of more than 6 times year-on-year.

Customs officers from Nansha Customs, affiliated with Guangzhou Customs, supervise exported cars. Photo by Li Huopeng

Guangzhou Nansha Automobile Port is the largest automobile ro-ro terminal cluster in South China. It has 7 dedicated berths for ro-ro vehicles above 10,000 tons and has an annual throughput capacity of over 3 million vehicles. At present, the port has opened a total of 14 foreign trade automobile export routes, attracting more than 10 new energy vehicles including GAC Aian, BYD, Xpeng and other new energy vehicles, as well as Sany Heavy Industry, Zoomlion and other construction machinery brands to export from Guangzhou Nansha.

Lu Chunrong, assistant general manager of Nansha Automobile Terminal Co., Ltd., said: "Our automobile export business is making steady progress. In addition to passenger cars, the export of engineering vehicles is gaining momentum. Since this year, we have exported cement mixers, excavators, tractors and other new energy engineering vehicles to the Middle East many times for the construction of local livelihood projects."

During the National Day, in view of the characteristics of concentrated arrival of export vehicles and diversified export models during the holiday, Nansha Customs, a subsidiary of Guangzhou Customs, optimized the distribution of passenger vehicles and engineering vehicles to be exported to improve site turnover efficiency. At the same time, Guangzhou Nansha will closely adhere to the positioning of building an international hub for cross-border automobile trade, fully support the port to expand more direct ro-ro routes, create a "ro-ro shipping + sea-rail combined transport" and "ro-ro shipping + lighterage transfer" combined transportation model, and promote multi-port collaboration and multi-modal transportation to go to sea efficiently.

"We have contacted the terminal in advance to understand the shipping plan. During this year's National Day holiday, relevant companies plan to export 7 shipments of cars, totaling about 16,000 vehicles." Xiao Yingfeng, chief of the Automobile Supervision Section of Nansha Customs, introduced that the customs provides 24-hour intelligent customs clearance services and implements 365 days of normal customs clearance. For berthing ro-ro ships, "ships are inspected as soon as people arrive, and people are berthed" to ensure efficient and smooth customs clearance for each batch of export cars. (over)