China's Largest Clean Energy Vehicle Transportation Vessel Makes First Voyage with 7,600 Car Spaces

The first ocean-going car carrier (Ro-Ro vessel) commissioned by SAIC Group to be built by the world's largest shipbuilding group - China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), was officially named "SAIC Anji Shencheng" and started its maiden voyage. This 200-meter-long, 38-meter-wide, 13-story-high ocean-going ship has 7,600 parking spaces, a displacement of more than 40,000 tons, and innovatively adopts LNG dual-fuel clean power, which is able to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30%. "As the world's largest loading capacity and the highest degree of localization of clean energy ro-ro ship, SAIC Anji Shencheng will be the first batch of new vehicles of SAIC, Dongfeng and Yutong's own brands to sail to Europe. At present, SAIC's Anji Logistics has built China's largest self-owned fleet of automobile enterprises, with 31 various types of automobile ships, and opened seven international self-owned routes in Southeast Asia, Mexico, South America West and Europe. In the next three years, a total of 14 ocean-going vessels of 7000, 7600, 7800 and 9000 car classes will join SAIC Anji Logistics' ocean-going fleet one after another, actively supporting China's own brands to accelerate their trans-oceanic journey.

Behind the full expansion of SAIC's ocean-going fleet is the rapid growth of the company's foreign export business. 2023 SAIC's foreign trade sales amounted to 1.208 million vehicles, an increase of 18.8% year-on-year, leading the way for eight consecutive years among China's automobile enterprises, helping China's vehicle exports catch up with Japan to leap to the world's first; among them, the sales of its own brands accounted for nearly 92%, and sales of new energy vehicles accounted for nearly 24%, and the SAIC's first global vehicle MG4 EV became the champion of European compact pure electric car sales. As a pioneer of Chinese automobile overseas, the global sales of SAIC MG brand exceeded 840,000 units in 2023, and it was the champion of China's single-brand foreign trade sales for the fifth consecutive year, and it has successfully won more than 30 authoritative awards overseas, such as the "British, French, German and Australian Model of the Year Grand Slam", and it has been ranked among the top 10 single-brand brands in many countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and India, etc. In 2024, it was ranked the top 10 single-brand brands. In 2024, the 100th anniversary of the birth of the MG brand, the company will make every effort to achieve the goal of annual sales of one million vehicles globally.

Anji Logistics is one of the "hidden champions of the industry chain" under SAIC, and has become the largest automobile logistics company in the world after long-term development, taking the lead in building a multimodal transportation model of public transport, iron and water, with business covering nearly 600 cities in China and more than 100 countries overseas, and an annual shipment volume of up to 10 million vehicles. ANJI Logistics has established China's largest self-owned fleet of automobile enterprises, with 31 automobile ships of various types, and opened 7 international self-owned routes in Southeast Asia, Mexico, South America West and Europe. In addition to SAIC's brands, ANJI Logistics also provides ocean-going vehicle logistics services for many Chinese automobile enterprises such as Dongfeng, Yutong and Great Wall.

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