📋 Tender Overview
On April 20, the Abi Shengshi ship loaded with more than 2,700 domestic cars, buses and construction machinery successfully set sail from the Haitong Automobile Terminal in Taicang Port, Suzhou Port and headed to Durban Port, South Africa. This is the first integrated route for ocean-to-ocean direct flights in the Yangtze River Basin, marking that Suzhou Port has added another new channel to serve Chinas global automobile layout, and also provides hinterland enterprises with a new path for container shipping. The route is currently in operation with two ships, with a stable flight period of one month, mainly affiliated with two major hub ports, Lagos, Nigeria and Durban, South Africa. The goods transported are mainly commercial vehicles, construction machinery equipment and corresponding accessories. Rolling integrated ship is a multi-purpose transport ship. Container cargo can be placed in the space above the deck. Below the deck can be used as a storage space for construction machinery equipment, automobiles and other goods. It not only has the function of car roll-on transportation, but also takes into account the container transportation function. It can also load and load and unload cargoes with flexible types and types, providing more competitive logistics solutions for the export of domestic automobiles and engineering machinery to markets such as Africa. This route not only opens a stable and efficient trade channel with African companies in Suzhou and the Yangtze River Basin, greatly improving the service level and core competitiveness of Suzhou Port, but also effectively enhancing the competitiveness and business coverage of Suzhou Port hinterland companies in the African market, having a positive impact on regional economic development, and injecting new vitality into Chinas economic and trade cooperation with Africa. In the first quarter of this year, Suzhou Port Taicang Port area exported 147,600 vehicles, an increase of 18.35% year-on-year. Among them, 58,500 vehicles were exported to the Belt and Road countries, an increase of 3.06% year-on-year.
