“China is a young country in an old civilization. It an exciting place and the right time to be an entrepreneur in Beijing.” Read more about my background story here.
Yesterday was rather frantic. Up at 06:00 with a coughing daughter, quick dress and off to the Beijing south train station. I had to go to Tianjin for the second time this week, this time to resolve the incident of the CIQ officer crashing the Plus 8 for our customer and partner San He Group. [...]
Tianjin authorities meeting held with Officer Guo, a smart and tidy young man in his mid thirties who had a big file of research which they had assembled on our Morgan cars. We encountered a couple of issues: – Customs officers were of the impression that our HK company is a subsidiary of MMC. In [...]
A wonderful retreat in the city for EO Beijing forum 1. EO has been the best organization that I could ever have joined. Being a part of the creation of EO Beijing Chapter and growing our families and businesses together has been a highlight of my time in China. We held the retreat at EAST [...]
The weeks move by and we are slowly, inexorably passing the hurdles placed before us to import and sell the Morgan cars. My concern as the weeks pass by runs to the costs of inactivity, (storage, rental, salaries etc) but also to the cars aging and the impact that will make on the customers. We [...]
The customs officers in Tianjin Economic Development Area, TEDA, accepted our documents today: – amounting to some 100 pages of documentations. Valiantly all copied and chopped by Erika. 5 photos per car Specifications in Chinese (each CofC translated) Owner identity – each low vol car import has to have an ‘owner.’ we have to submit [...]
The process of importing Morgan cars has now begun in earnest. On the 11th March the 6 Morgan cars, which comprise the first commercial consignment, docked in Tianjin after some 42 days at sea. On 19th March Erika and I traveled to Tianjin to drive the cars out of the containers. The Customs port [...]
As we near the arrival of the 6 cars in China, the necessary legal and financial pieces of the puzzle are coming together to make a picture of Morgan car business in China as a fully legal and commercial enterprise. Little did I know that we had been shadowing the cars while on vacation in [...]
Proud moment as the signage on the facia of the showroom is complete. The logo and letters light up. All we have left is the photography – we will use those taken by Ben McMillan.
