Ningbo enterprises work overtime overnight to catch up with shipping schedules

Recently, workers were carrying out orderly export truck loading operations at the Ningbo Zhongxin Port Tong automobile loading site. More than 150 Geely new energy vehicles were loaded into the container, positioned and placed on triangular wooden blocks, and the wheel hubs were reinforced and tied with binding straps. Subsequently, after customs supervision and inspection, the batch of containers was loaded onto ships and transported to the Middle East region.  
According to statistics from Ningbo Customs, in the first 11 months of 2025, the export value of new energy vehicles at Ningbo Port reached 26 billion yuan, accounting for nearly 70% of the total automobile exports, a year-on-year increase of 280.4%, and exceeding 3.02 billion yuan compared to the total export value of new energy vehicles in 2022, 2023, and 2024. The United Arab Emirates, Brazil, and the European Union are the top three export markets, with export values of 7.89 billion yuan, 3.57 billion yuan, and 2.8 billion yuan, respectively.  
In the first 11 months of 2025, we will export over 11000 vehicles, with the Middle East and South America being the main destinations. Among them, the proportion of new energy vehicle exports exceeds 20%, "said the person in charge of Zhejiang Zhongda Yuantong International Trade Co., Ltd.  
At present, Ningbo has built an internationally competitive automobile industry cluster, which not only drives the coordinated development of upstream and downstream industrial chains, but also attracts numerous domestic and foreign supporting enterprises to settle in, forming a comprehensive industrial ecology integrating research and development, design, production, and sales.  
Every day, cars are packed in about 50 containers, with a large proportion being new energy vehicles, "said Zhang Jiandong, the person in charge of CITIC Port International Logistics Co., Ltd. The customs clearance efficiency of Meishan Port in Zhoushan Port, Ningbo continues to improve, and the business environment at the port is constantly optimized. Especially at the end of the year, major car companies increased their car shipments. Our site has been busy lately, and sometimes we have to work overtime overnight to ensure that cars catch up with the shipping schedule
In the face of the rapid growth of automobile export business, Ningbo Customs accurately meets the needs of enterprises, provides one-stop and customized customs clearance solutions for enterprises, and implements the "early declaration cargo release port direct loading" customs clearance mode, greatly improving the efficiency of automobile export.  
We closely monitor the dynamics of automobile exports, connect with automobile companies and shipping companies in advance, grasp export plans and ship arrival times, achieve seamless connection between automobile transportation, loading and other links, and greatly improve port operation efficiency, "said the person in charge of the Logistics Monitoring Department of Meishan Customs under Ningbo Customs.