We delivered 2,982 vehicles in the first half of 2026, after 3,750 in 2025 and 1,660 in 2024. Numbers like these hide the part that matters to anyone standing in the yard: a car only leaves when the gate, the licence and the document set agree with each other. Here is the chain as we run it, from a domestic seller's point of view.
Where the cars wait before anyone books a container
Inside China we collect from named gates, not from "wherever is cheapest": most current lines leave from Ningbo, Nansha or Xiangtan. Every row on the supply sheet is marked either spot stock or futures, because the two behave differently. A spot unit can be inspected this week; a futures unit is a production or allocation commitment, and the loading date follows it rather than the other way round.
The sheet also prints colour, pickup location, licence type and handover method per line. Those four columns decide more deals than the model name does.
Nine handovers, six pieces of paper you keep
An order moves through inquiry and configuration, proforma invoice, deposit and purchase order, VIN video and balance, export formalities and port warehousing, then loading evidence and tracking. Six of those stages leave you a document or a record: the proforma, the purchase order, the VIN video of your own car, the export licence and certificate of origin, the loading photos and video, and finally the container number with customs documents.
Buyers regularly ask us to shorten inspection and paperwork. Neither shortens well. A VIN video shot in a hurry is the single most common reason a trim mismatch surfaces after the vessel has sailed, and by then the fix costs a month.
Why the licence column beats the condition report
Two licence types appear on our current sheet: manufacturer licence and conversion-factory licence. A buyer comparing two identical-looking units often finds that only one of them clears import inspection in his market as it stands. That is why we ask for the destination country before we quote a model, not after.
Four bases, eight warehouses, forty countries
Overseas, the chain runs through a showroom with sales and after-sales in Cambodia, market development and distribution in Rwanda and Algeria, and the export hub in Guangzhou. Eight overseas warehouses sit behind those bases, serving 40 countries. For a dealer ordering his second container, the warehouse usually matters more than the factory: spare parts and a replacement unit within reach change how fast he can resell.
What the yard looks like right now
The live list holds 1,511 active units across 234 series, model years 2015 to 2026. Seven brands account for 1,165 of them: Geely Galaxy, Volkswagen, Toyota, Hyundai, Honda, BYD and Kia. For a mixed container, the practical shortlist is usually Toyota Corolla, Corolla Cross and Frontlander, Volkswagen Passat, T-Roc, Tharu and Tacqua, Kia K3, Hyundai Elantra, Sonata and Tucson, plus BYD Seal 05, Geely Binyue and Trumpchi GS3.
A mixed container is judged by its slowest line. If eight of nine models are ready and the ninth is a futures unit two weeks out, the whole booking waits - which is why we keep spot and futures on separate rows, and why 20 agency brands and 100 product packages sit under one supplier account.
Three things to send us first
Model and model year, quantity, and destination port. With those three we can tell you which gate the car is at, whether it is spot or futures, and which licence it carries. Everything else, including commercial terms, follows in the proforma invoice.
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