Chantal Blaak Cheap Jordan Shoes , cycling world champion 2017 and local Rotterdammer, attends Mobike's launching ceremony as the official first rider in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Nov. 9, 2017. Chinese bike-sharing company Mobike on Thursday officially announced its launch after a successful trial period in the Netherlands, first in Rotterdam, the country's second largest city. (XinhuaLiu Fang) ROTTERDAM Cheap Jordans , The Netherlands, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese bike-sharing company Mobike on Thursday officially announced its launch after a successful trial period in the Netherlands, first in Rotterdam, the country's second largest city.
"We started with 150 bikes weeks ago and now there are some four to five hundreds in the streets. That's not many. We really want to know how people will use Mobike, so we do it slightly and in a proper manner," said Ronald Haverman, who now leads the introduction of Mobike into his country.
Haverman is also founder of the Dutch bike sharing program OV-fietsen known to every Dutch family.
To mark its entry into Rotterdam http://www.cheapairjordan1retroshoes.com/ , Mobike invited Chantal Blaak, Cycling World Champion 2017 and local Rotterdammer, as official first rider at the launching ceremony and Jochum Haakma, Chairman of the EU-China Business Association (EUCBA in Brussels) and Chairman of Netherland-China Business Association (NCBC) as guest speaker.
Founded in April 2016, Mobike is now active in some 180 cities worldwide, including in Singapore, Italy Cheap Jordan 6 , Britain, the United States and South Korea. It aims to ride into over 200 global cities in total by the end of 2017.
The company said it has placed 7 million bikes worldwide for more than 200 million registered users and 30 million rides per day.
Every Mobike is equipped with a GPS tracker, making it possible to have its location and state checked at anytime. People can easily open and lock its smart slot with an app on mobile.
A dozen of other global provider are also riding similar programs into various cities.
But the new cashless and dockless bike-sharing schemes are advancing at a slower pace in the Netherlands, a country enjoys the fame of "the Kingdom of Bicycles" where cycling is a daily life.
The capital city of Amsterdam decided in August to temporarily clear up all sharing bikes, citing the reason that the bikes occupied the city's scarce public space.
"Mobike enters a city only with the city's approval," said Haverman. "In Rotterdam, we work well with the municipality and other local stakeholders. We have been talking quite often for months."
As agreed Cheap Jordan 4 , Mobike "has a team seven days a week from early morning to late in the evening" to move misplaced bicycles and all defective bikes will be replaced, Haverman added. "Because we really want things nice and tidy."
Rotterdam aims to be the best Dutch bicycle city in 2018. According to the municipality,