June 5th

Today we traveled to Tianjin and the port Customs at Tanggu. The bus driver got lost but finally found our container park. The containers were right on the boundary fence. After some initial paper shuffling we were allowed on site through the security fence and the seals were removed. The cars were all intact and soon started and driven out. We then had to drive them around to a area amongst the containers where they were given the check over by the customs men. Apart from some souvenir gifts having to be removed from their packaging we were all inspected within about an hour. Then we had to put them back in the containers and reseal them. Next we were whisked off to a huge banquet lunch and then made to wait hours in the deserted restaurant while the documentation for the cars was processed. About 5pm we were taken back to the port, the cars were released from the containers again and we drove them to our hotel about 30k via a petrol station. About 80cents per litre !!!! for 93 octane. Apparently 98 octane is available but we haven’t seen that yet. Hotel was supposed to be 5 star but I’m not so sure.

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