CCTV News: Since 2025, many Chinese independent brand car companies have stepped up their efforts to deploy overseas markets, increased investment in the establishment of ocean-going transport fleets, and took capacity into their own hands. What does this mean for independent car companies entering the international market? How is their fleet size?

On May 15, at Shanghai Haitong International Automobile Terminal, this 9500-stop ro-ro ship independently built by SAIC Group was officially delivered and rushed to Europe for the first time. This ro-ro-ro ship named "Anji Ansheng" is currently one of the largest car transport ships with a maximum navigation speed of 19 knots.

The company's head, Zhuang Jingxiong, introduced that they will have 7 super-large automobile transport ships to be put into use in the future, and the complete ocean-going transportation routes will be spread across the major automobile markets around the world, with more than 100 destinations.

Not only SAIC, in late April 2025, the car carrier BYD "Shenzhen" with a load capacity of also exceeding 9,000 parking spaces was delivered in Jiangsu, and then the voyage to Brazil began. It is understood that BYD has launched four ocean-going car transport ships. According to the company's head Gao Xiaolin, in the first quarter of 2025, BYD's Ro-Ro-Ro-Ship ship transported more than 25,000 new energy vehicles overseas. The next 9200-park class transport ship, the Xi'an, will also be delivered in the middle of the year. It is expected that all eight BYD's ro-ro ships will be put into operation in 2025.

On January 21, 2025, Chery's first ocean-going car transport ship was forthcoming in Europe, the second car transport ship will be launched in June 2025, and the third is being built. GAC has jointly built a roll-ro-carrier transportation company with China Merchants Steamships to ensure the stability of the entire vehicle's position on overseas ships. It also released the "European Strategy", which plans to complete the construction of European transit warehouses by 2025 and achieve localized coverage of the entire chain of "manufacturing-transportation-service". The whole chain is developing in a coordinated manner. China's automobiles accelerated their "going overseas"

The latest data shows that from January to April 2025, my country's automobile exports were 1.937 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 6%. Among them, 642,000 new energy vehicles were exported, an increase of 52.6% year-on-year.

Experts said that China's leapfrog growth in automobile exports stems from collaborative breakthroughs in multiple dimensions such as technology, supply chain, and logistics.

Liu Yan, deputy secretary-general of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, introduced that the independent and controllable supply chain ensures industrial resilience, and the upgrade of the shipping system has opened up the "last mile" of globalization. The superposition of the advantages of the entire chain has enabled China Automobile to achieve "going out". In the next step, the focus of Chinese automobile brands is to better "go in" and achieve a leap from "product going overseas" to "industrial chain and ecological going overseas".