In recent years, with the increasing prosperity of my country’s shipping, road freight and container transportation markets, the demand for semi-trailers has increased, and the market share has accounted for about 40% of all trucks. Compared with the market share of semi-trailers in developed countries, there is still a certain gap. Semi-trailers are also gradually developing in the direction of heavy-duty and high-tech: with the gradual improvement of road conditions and the rapid development of the transportation industry, the demand for warehouse-type semi-trailers, flatbed container semi-trailers, van transport semi-trailers, tank transport semi-trailers, etc. is increasing, and it also provides a broad space for the wide application of large-tonnage and multi-axle semi-trailers.
After the state included the development of container trucks, vans, special semi-trailers, heavy diesel trucks with a load of more than 8 tons and the vans of ordinary open trucks in the “Outline of the Road Transport Industry Development Plan” and formulated a series of preferential policies, the growth of demand for vans and semi-trailers in the freight market has become an inevitable trend.
Three major development trends of semi-trailers:
- High-tech and high-value-added product trends. As market competition continues to intensify, the competitive advantage of labor-intensive products in winning by price will be weakened, and technological innovation will become the main economic growth mode of the industry. In addition, the market demand for high-tech and high-value-added products will greatly increase. This trend will increase the enthusiasm of transport semi-trailer manufacturers to develop semi-trailer products with high technical content and added value.
- The trend of heavy-duty and multi-axle products. The gradual improvement of road conditions and the rapid development of the transportation industry have created good conditions for high-speed and containerized highway transportation, and also provided broad space for the widespread application of large-tonnage and multi-axle semi-trailers.
- The trend of corporate joint ventures and asset restructuring. From the perspective of the international situation, developed countries have been constrained by high labor prices and economic downturns. In recent years, the manufacturing industry has moved abroad, providing certain opportunities for my country’s semi-trailers to enter the international market. At the same time, foreign semi-trailer companies have a strong interest in exploring the Chinese market in order to seek new economic growth points.
Judging from the above data, the market prospects for semi-trailers are still broad. Further increasing the proportion of heavy-duty semi-trailers to meet market demand, and joint ventures will also play a positive role in promoting the development of high value-added semi-trailers and other products in my country.
