Where Unsold EVs Go To Die: Belgium’s Ports Drowning Under Glut Of Chinese Imports
By Paul Homewood
h/t Russell Hicks
Ten years ago this week, we posted one of out most viral stories, highlighting the over-capacity in the auto industry: "Where the World’s Unsold Cars Go To Die," which highlighted the ‘endgame’ of automakers’ ‘channel stuffing’ efforts to disguise the sudden lack of demand for all the exciting new models that they had forecast would boom to the moon..
And now, as MishTalk’s Mike Shedlock reports, we are seeing similar pictures across Europe…
Le Monde reports Belgium’s ports drowning under glut of Chinese electric cars: ‘Some are parked here for a year, sometimes more’
Due to China’s overcapacity in production – as it aims to capture a quarter of the European electric vehicle market – the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge are inundated.
You probably need to see it to appreciate the challenges the automobile industry faces in transitioning to electricity. You also need to come here to understand how the Chinese industry’s overcapacity has flooded the European market. That morning, as the sun unexpectedly lit up the maze of highways leading to this remote arm of the port of Antwerp, Belgium, a huge cargo ship from the Norwegian company Höegh Autoliners unloaded thousands of cars at one of the terminals of International Car Operators (ICO), a subsidiary of the Japanese group Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
Alongside Swedish-Norwegian Wallenius Wilhelmsen, it is one of the main operators of the now merged port of Antwerp-Bruges, the world’s largest automotive terminal, through which the production of some 40 brands used to transit. But that was before the emergence of their Chinese competitors.
Car Parks
Quartz reports Cars are piling up at European ports at an alarming rate
Imported vehicles are seriously piling up at European ports, turning them into “car parks.” Automakers are distributors are struggling with a slowdown in car sales as well as logistical bottlenecks that make it hard to alleviate the buildup of new, unsold vehicles.
Some Chinese brand EVs had been sitting in European ports for up to 18 months, while some ports had asked importers to provide proof of onward transport, according to industry executives. One car logistics expert said many of the unloaded vehicles were simply staying in the ports until they were sold to distributors or end users.
“It’s chaos,” said another person who had been briefed on the situation.
This is another part of the escalating trade war between China and the rest of the world.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Ho Ho.
Ho, ho indeed, MB😊
‘Hoes’ more like, the craven politicians (and universities) in hock to CCP.
Huh, suspect this could be some “Fake nieus” … these are all real NEWS Cars currently coming in for sale in Europe …. one reads so much guff these days – time to digest it all …. triggering BUT ! I did read somewhere recently about impending flooding of Euro markets with much cheaper Chinese cars – what’s not to like – if you want a cheap local runabout “for fun” - just to annoy others.
Jings we have a couple of much cheaper Mob Phones in this household and quite happy with them, Supporting Local Manufactures who the go on to move the goalposts in line with Stupid Gov. dictats is not my idea of fun ( or serious business )
But will the Chinese battery cars to be cheap enough to throw away when the battery has faded away?
Hope so , or at least a TOY for the Bairns to learn on … EduTainment costs money, y’know!
“a TOY for the Bairns to learn on …” Here’s a silly thing regarding said “Bairns”. I had a Scots mother and grandparents, however, I was born and raised in Hull. So whilst me and my brothers were known as “the bairns” by our family all the other children around were called “bains” (i.e. no “r”) by theirs. This confused the crap out of me as a child – was I so different to warrant a different term?
So when you reminded me of the word I looked it up and guess what wikipedia came up with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairn
So now at 67, and after years of confusion, I now know that I wasn’t that odd after all.
Avoch aye, Ray, …. the Bennnns . Yes I’d heard that word before by folk from aroun’d that ‘t tarea before – just never gav’t much thawt. Great what you learn here.
zThen there’s the Weans
Avoch, … the weans … Aye William Connolly fair sums them up : Getting the Jeely piece flung at them from a great height: see it now – picked up out of the gutters, Jam n mud from ear to ear. Contrast that with the Rural cousins – the Bairns, Ruff n Reddie, Torn Pants fae fallin oot o thae branches, fair drookit in the Burn after guddlin for troot, etc. That rich tapestry of Life in the North, miles away from the City. LEARNING all about NATURE while they hadtime to stop and wait and LOOK & SEE for themselves. Less Climate Tripe from them.
If somebody accidently set fire to one of the EVs, the whole lot would probably explode (not that I would advocate such a thing).
It would be hard to put out certainly. What was the safe distance for storage that insurance companies wanted?
Similar huge car park in Sheerness upwind of Faversham (on land illegally reclaimed). Perhaps that explosion will set off SS Richard Montgomery.
Lappel Bank is the case (unlawful land reclamation). Sorry about ‘Graun’ but it’s a reasonable summary of reclamation issue at least.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/mar/04/conservationandendangeredspecies.uknews
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First picture is from 2009, second picture is EVs in China waiting to be loaded.
Where are the pictures of the EVs piling up at European ports?
Paul
Thanks for all your work. I have a question – who exactly is the European Climate Foundation and where does their “philanthropic funding” come from?
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You could try a bit of internet searching for yourself and that would bring you to this page of a lot of the usual scumbags: https://europeanclimate.org/our-funding-partners/
Interesting that on their website they have an annual report which somehow manages not to put any figures on their income or indeed mention anything about it at all.
Climate charities tend to publish financial statements with a 2 year lag
Here is ECF: https://www.europeanclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2022-standard-form-publication-anbi.pdf
Here is European CAN: https://caneurope.org/content/uploads/2023/04/CAN_Annual_Report_2022.pdf
Actually that looks like a required financial statement submission to the Dutch equivalent of the Charity Commission. Having been a chairman on a charity I had to submit an annual statement to the CC.
American billionaires tax efficient foundations mostly. They are a mega bundling NGO that distributes funds across the climate crisis smearbund. Some of the donors are known, much is dark money . . .
https://benpile.substack.com/p/the-monolith-of-climate-smear-mongering
Many of the smaller climate crisis NGOs are registered charities, when you examine their year end financial statements over many years, grants from ECF keep popping up.
Another NGO to keep an eye for is the UN backed Climate Action Network (CAN), founded in 1989, this one has its tentacles into our taxes and it is dominated by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, it has extensive links into many Christian based relief charities that focus on the third world, the global south as it’s known these days.
Never mind Antwerp. Look on Google Earth at Avonmouth.
It’s a bit like what do you do with old RAF airfields (apart from from bury bovine carcasses from the foot and mouth cull and put incredibly dodgy Met Office weather stations there) other than park up vehicles?
https://www.google.com/maps/search/RAF+near+Throckmorton,+Pershore/@52.141579,-2.0380106,667m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
notrickszone tells us that as the Tesla plant continues churning out battery cars from its plant near Berlin they are taken to a disused airfield for storage as sales in Germany have dropped steeply so far this year.
. . . which was thoroughly debunked by EVERYBODY.
I agree with Artyjoke, this is just warmed over bullshit.
Like this one?
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-announces-fourth-round-of-layoffs-in-four-weeks/
In my Post this now; Read the Subject line properly: Europe’s interest in hybrid vehicles goes up with slight decline in EV registrations What does that say….