Global semi-trailer sales are increasing year by year

Trailer refers to the vehicle drawn by the tractor without power drive device, is an important means of road transportation in modern society, according to the connection mode of trailer and tractor is divided into full trailer and semi-trailer. Wherein, the semi-trailer is drawn by the tractor and part of its mass is borne by the tractor.

In recent years, thanks to the growth of the global economy, especially the active construction activities in China and India, the sales volume of semi-trailers has been increasing year by year.

By region, North America, China and Europe are still the major sales markets for semi-trailers. First, in North America, driven by the DEMAND of the United States, the sales volume of semi-trailers in North America continued to rise, increasing from 275,000 units in 2013 to 364,900 units in 2017, with a compound annual growth rate of 7.3%. North American semi-trailer sales are expected to continue rising to 451,800 units in 2021.

After years of development in China, semi-trailer market has begun to take shape, especially in 2016-2017 by the state for the super policy influence, concentrated rights of highway freight car market for pulling effect, increased sales, but the super cure policy dividend release function abate, at the same time high base and multiple factors such as road to railway transportation.

The great development of Semi-trailer in Europe began in the late 1980s and early 1990s. With the expansion of the Western European market to Central and Eastern Europe, the circulation space of goods was released, and the flexibility, speed and efficiency of semi-trailer transportation was fully demonstrated. In recent years, Europe has seen a small increase in semi-trailer sales, driven by increased demand to replace aging semi-trailers.

In addition to the three regions mentioned above, economic development in India, Brazil and other countries and regions around the world has gradually improved in recent years, promoting the steady rise of semi-trailer sales.

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Lightweight, technological innovation is the main theme of future development

Semi-trailer production data attribute determines its market development closely related to macro economic situation, the future of the global economy will remain in the low speed growth, but still exists bigger difference of regional development, infrastructure construction, especially highway construction will continue to advance, bring business opportunities for global semi industry development, especially logistics semi-trailer will have larger development space.

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From the new product layout of each semi-trailer production enterprise, more and more aluminum alloy parts are applied to the trailer, aluminum alloy parts have the advantages of light weight, long service life, good recycling and utilization, while ensuring the strength of the vehicle to reduce part of the weight, effectively reduce the fuel consumption. But compared with steel, aluminum alloy material is slightly worse in safety and durability. As an important direction for the future development of semi-trailer and even the whole automotive industry, lightweight needs to focus on the balance between vehicle weight reduction and safety and durability.

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From the development history of semi-trailer in the world, technological innovation has always been an important development direction of enterprise product research and development. With the increasing market competition, the competitive advantage of labor-intensive products to win by price will be weakened in the future, and technological innovation will become the driving force for the growth of trailer enterprises and even the whole semi-trailer industry. Especially in China, at the present stage, China's semi-trailer enterprises generally have low technology halo, simple product process and serious homogenization. The semi-trailer industry has gradually changed from the original focus on sales to focus on technology now.