The railway, aviation and shipping freight market is an important "window" for observing the cold and warm freight market economy. Despite continuing market difficulties, the three major freight industries have shown positive structural adjustments: the "steady black and white" of railway freight, the reverse growth of air freight, and the explosive growth of shipping and e-commerce platforms, reflecting a lot of economic development. New bright spots for the conversion of old and new kinetic energy.
The railway, aviation and shipping freight market is an important "window" for observing the cold and warm freight market economy. Despite continuing market difficulties, the three major freight industries have shown positive structural adjustments: the "steady black and white" of railway freight, the reverse growth of air freight, and the explosive growth of shipping and e-commerce platforms, reflecting a lot of economic development. New bright spots for the conversion of old and new kinetic energy.
Railway freight "steady black and white"
A few days ago, full of auto parts, plastic products, daily necessities and other goods of the railway freight special class from Zhejiang Zhuji East Railway Station, the terminal is Hunan Zhuzhou.
This is the tenth freight special needs train operated by the Shanghai Railway Bureau according to the needs of the transportation market. Hujianfeng, director of the Jinhua Cargo Center of the Shanghai Railway Bureau, said that the new policy on the bulk loading of railway containers was implemented by the trains, and the speed was not raised. The logistics cost was reduced by about 15 % compared with other transportation, which helped the manufacturing industry to reduce transport costs.
The reporter learned from the China Railway Corporation that with the continuous decline in the volume of large "black goods" such as coal and steel, the railway department has adopted "steady black and white" measures to increase the supply of industrial machinery, electronic products, daily department stores and other scattered "white goods" transportation capacity. guarantee.
In many important railway hubs across the country, in order to meet the demand of enterprise cargo owners to reduce logistics costs, while stabilizing the volume of black cargo, we have drastically reformed the supply side services of white cargo transportation, improved the supply structure, and optimized the supply category.
At present, the Shanghai Railway Bureau has opened 23 special lines in the Yangtze River Delta area to Kunming, Urumqi, Shenyang and other directions. In the first quarter of this year, the bulk of 706cars were shipped daily, an increase of 135 % year-on-year. Through the docking of large customers such as coal mines, ports, steel mills, and power plants, the volume of coal, metal ore and other bulk cargo increased by 1.4 % in early April.
In March of this year, Guangzhou Railway Group's daily freight vehicle growth ranked first in the entire road, and freight delivery was stabilized and delivery volume increased by 55 %.
Industry forecasts suggest that rail traffic is likely to continue to fall between March and may, with further capacity cuts and the end of the heating season, and rail freight coming into a "most difficult season". Experts said that the market reform of railway freight should be used as an opportunity to actively change the development mode and operating mechanism of freight transport and solve the problem of increasing the amount of freight.
Inverse growth of domestic air cargo
Tea is a main force in the export of Sichuan characteristic agricultural products. Sichuan Tea Group, said the company has focused on the international market in recent years, last year's exports tripled.
Not only the characteristic agricultural products, China has independent intellectual property rights of the new products are also accelerating "go out." The person in charge of Shunfeng Express told reporters that the sales of high-value electronic products such as Xiaomi and Huawei have been good in the international market, which has led to an increase in the overall air transport volume.
With high-tech products and characteristic agricultural products entering the international market, the new domestic consumption potential has been accelerated, and the rapid development of domestic air cargo has been promoted. Internationalization and popularization have become important growth points for air cargo in China. The State Administration of Civil Aviation estimates that China's total transport turnover this year will reach 95.3 billion ton kilometers, and cargo and mail shipments will reach 6.8 million tons, an increase of 11.5 % and 8.3 % respectively over the previous year.
"Driven by consumption, express delivery accounted for more than 50 % of domestic cargo at the airport in the past two years. "Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport Aviation Ground Service Co., Ltd.. Party Secretary Wang Yong said.
Express logistics companies represented by Shunfeng and Yuantong are accelerating the layout of their own air transportation bases. At present, Shunfeng Airlines has increased the number of its own cargo aircraft to 27, becoming the largest cargo airline operating the total number of cargo aircraft in China; In 2015, the total number of air shipments from Yuantong Aviation Express to the entire network was 243,000 tons, which is roughly equivalent to the annual domestic and international cargo and postal shipments of Hangzhou Airport.
Tangjiqiang, chief executive of the "West Finance Think Tank" of Southwest University of Finance and Economics, believes that capacity is no longer only concentrated on railways and highways, and more and more highly sophisticated freight options for air transportation are accelerating the formation of China's new economic industry and accelerating the transformation of old and new forces. An important symbol.
Shipping E-commerce Platform "One Branch Duxiu"
The international shipping market has fallen into an unprecedented downturn. The Baltic index hit a record low in the first quarter of this year and fell to a record low of 290 on February 10. The Shanghai export container price index also continued to fall, falling to a record low of 640 points on April 8.
The ministry of transport published this year from January to February transport operation analysis report shows that the port throughput of our country "internal rise outside slow, North increase South drop" trend, freight rate index continued to fall. Compared with the overall recession of domestic ports and shipping companies, the shipping e-commerce platform has shown an outbreak of growth and has become a "single leader" in the restructuring of the shipping industry.
The reporter learned that at present large and small domestic shipping B2B e-commerce platform has approached 50. These shipping e-commerce platforms provide more open, transparent, and efficient docking services through the Internet, bringing together originally scattered shipping freight forwarders and cargo owners on the platform, thus subverting the traditional shipping industry. Taking domestic pan-Asian e-commerce as an example, the cumulative transaction amount in 2015 exceeded 300 million yuan, the volume of domestic trade transaction boxes was nearly 2.5 times that of the previous year, and the volume of foreign trade boxes surged to 9 times that of the previous year.
Baipeijun, who has been engaged in shipping market research for a long time, said that there is an inherent demand for lower efficiency in the upstream and downstream of the shipping logistics industry chain, and it is conducive to trying to innovate the shipping business by using the advantages of the e-commerce platform to reach customers quickly.
