China's automobile exports ushered in an explosive period, and SAIC motor expanded its own fleet to accelerate its overseas layout

In 2021, China's automobile exports reached a record high, with annual exports exceeding 2 million units for the first time, an increase of 101.1% year-on-year. Due to the increase in automobile exports, the market has put forward higher requirements for ocean-going automobile transportation.

On January 17, SAIC Motor and China Shipbuilding Group formally signed an agreement that CSSC Jiangnan Shipbuilding will customize two LNG dual-fuel, low-carbon and environmentally friendly ocean-going automobile carriers (ro-ro ships) with 7600 parking spaces for SAIC's Anji Logistics to meet the growing export business needs of SAIC motor and other independent and foreign brands in China.

In order to conform to the development trend of the era of energy conservation and emission reduction, the two Ro-Ro ships used LNG dual fuel, which is also to better serve the export business of new energy intelligent vehicle products. "We have reasonably reduced some of the structural parts, ensuring that the ship is lightweight, further reducing energy consumption, and the ship has also achieved intelligent upgrades, such as the car can be automatically driven on the ship." Talking about the special fuel properties of ro-ro ships, Wang Zemin, general manager of SAIC Anji Logistics Co., Ltd., said.

In addition, Wang Zemin said that in order to better achieve carbon neutrality and carbon peaking, Anji Logistics has gradually invested in LNG vehicles and short-distance pure electric heavy trucks, studied hydrogen energy vehicles, and cooperated with the group to launch 5G heavy trucks, accelerate intelligent development, improve transportation efficiency, and make continuous progress in energy saving and path rational optimization.

At present, SAIC Anji Logistics has built the largest domestic auto enterprise self-operated fleet, with 31 automobile ships of various types, including 12 river ships, 13 domestic trade sea vessels, and 6 foreign trade special ships.

According to Yiou Automobile, sachinia's wholesale vehicle sales reached 5.464 million units in 2021, and the terminal delivery was 5.81 million units, an increase of 5.5% year-on-year.

Among them, SAIC Motor's overseas sales reached 697,000 units, including 598,000 units exported, and 99,000 units were produced and sold at overseas bases. For six consecutive years, it has won the first place in the domestic car company list, and its products and services have landed in more than 70 countries and regions around the world, forming six "50,000-car" regional markets in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the Americas, the Middle East, ASEAN and South Asia.

Guan Yizhong, general manager of the public relations department of SAIC Motor, said in an interview that the main proportion of SAIC Motor in the development process of overseas markets is also its own brands and new energy vehicles, especially in developed countries in Europe. He said frankly that in saic oil group's overseas system, Anji Logistics is a very important part of it and has played a huge role for a long time.

In recent years, SAIC's overseas export business has increased year by year, and Guan Yizhong said that on the product side, SAIC motor will consider developing customized products specifically for overseas markets, "With the expansion of the group's overseas business, the level of overseas profit chain will continue to improve." ”

Wang Zemin told Yiou Auto that Anji Logistics is currently the world's number one auto parts and vehicle logistics supplier, with an output value of 26.9 billion yuan as of 2021, ranking 32nd among global third-party logistics companies and 14th among Chinese logistics companies.

Yiou Automobile learned that Anji Logistics has more than 30,000 employees and 1,500 vehicles, and its vehicle logistics operation scale has reached tens of millions of vehicles, covering more than 600 cities, more than 30 waterway trunk lines, 130 railway trunk lines, 4900 highway trunk lines, 6 international routes, and major overseas export markets, including Europe, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Mexico, South America, etc.

With the rise of China's own brands and the improvement of new energy vehicle products, the road for Chinese cars to go to sea will become broader and broader, and the internationalization of China's national automobile brands will be truly realized.