Railway, aviation, shipping freight market is an important "window" to observe the freight market economy ". Despite continuing to face market difficulties, the three major freight industries are showing a positive trend of structural adjustment: railway freight "steady black and white", air freight against the trend of growth, shipping e-commerce platform explosive growth, reflecting a lot of economic development New bright spots in the conversion of new and old kinetic energy.

Railway freight "steady black whitening"

A few days ago, a special railway freight train loaded with auto parts, plastic products, daily necessities and other goods left Zhuji East Railway Station in Zhejiang Province and ended in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province.

This is the tenth special freight train operated by the Shanghai Railway Bureau according to the demand of the transportation market, and it will be operated normally in the future. Hu Jianfeng, director of the Jinhua Freight Center of the Shanghai Railway Administration, said that the train implements a new policy on the freight rate of railway containers in bulk, speeds up without raising prices, and logistics costs are reduced by about 15% compared with other transportation, which is conducive to helping the manufacturing industry reduce transportation costs.

The reporter learned from the China Railway Corporation that as the volume of bulk "black goods" such as coal and steel continues to decline, the railway department has adopted measures to "stabilize black and whiten" to increase the supply of industrial machinery, electronic products, and daily necessities. The "white goods" transportation capacity guarantee.

In many important railway hubs across the country, in order to meet the needs of enterprise shippers to reduce logistics costs, while stabilizing the volume of black freight, the supply-side service of white cargo transportation has been drastically reformed, the supply structure has been improved, and the supply category has been optimized.

At present, the Shanghai Railway Bureau has opened 23 special train lines from the Yangtze River Delta to Kunming, Urumqi, Shenyang and other directions. In the first quarter of this year, the average daily load of batch scattered express was 706, up 135 percent year-on-year. By docking large customers such as coal mines, ports, steel mills, and power plants, the volume of bulk cargo such as coal and metal ores increased by 1.4 month-on-month in early April.

In March this year, the average daily growth rate of freight loading of Guangzhou Railway Group ranked first in the whole road, and the freight transportation realized the stabilization of stop slip, with the delivery volume increasing by 55% month on month.

The industry predicts that with the further promotion of capacity reduction and the end of the warm season, railway bulk traffic volume may continue to decline from March to May, and railway freight will usher in the "most difficult season". Experts said that it is necessary to take the market-oriented reform of railway freight transport as an opportunity to actively change the development mode and management mechanism of freight transport, and solve the problem of increasing freight volume.

Domestic air cargo against the trend of growth

Tea is a major force in the export of Sichuan's characteristic agricultural products. The person in charge of Sichuan Tea Group said that the company has focused on the international market in recent years, and its export volume has tripled last year.

Not only characteristic agricultural products, but also high-tech products with independent intellectual property rights in China are also speeding up the "going out". The relevant person in charge of SF Express told reporters that high-value electronic products such as Xiaomi and Huawei have sold well internationally, which has driven the entire air traffic volume to rise.

With the entry of high-tech products and characteristic agricultural products into the international market, the release of new domestic consumption potential is accelerated, which promotes the rapid development of domestic air cargo. Internationalization and popularization have become an important growth point of China's air cargo. The Civil Aviation Administration of China predicts that this year my country's total transportation turnover will reach 95.3 billion ton-kilometers and cargo and mail transportation volume will reach 6.8 million tons, an increase of 11.5 and 8.3 respectively over the previous year.

"Driven by consumption, express delivery has accounted for more than 50% of domestic goods at the airport in the past two years." Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport Aviation Ground Service Co., Ltd. Cargo Service Department Party Secretary Wang Yong said.

Express logistics enterprises represented by Shunfeng and Yuantong are accelerating the layout of their own air transportation bases. At present, the number of SF Airlines' own all-cargo planes has increased to 27, becoming the cargo airline with the largest number of all-cargo planes in China. In 2015, the total air freight volume of Yuantong Airlines Express was 243000 tons, which is roughly equivalent to the annual domestic and international freight volume of Hangzhou Airport.

Tang Jiqiang, CEO of the "Xicai think tank" of Southwest University of Finance and Economics, believes that transport capacity is no longer only concentrated on railways and highways, and more and more sophisticated freight transport is choosing air transport. this is an important sign of the accelerated formation of China's new economic format and the accelerated transformation of new and old power.

Shipping e-commerce platform "outshine others"

The international shipping market is in an unprecedented downturn. The Baltic Index repeatedly broke record lows in the first quarter of this year, falling to an all-time low of 290 on February 10. Shanghai's export container freight index also continued to decline, falling to a record low of 640 points on April 8.

The transportation operation analysis report released by the Ministry of Transport from January to February this year shows that my country's port throughput shows a trend of "rising internally and slowing externally, increasing in the north and falling in the south", while the freight index continues to fall. Compared with the overall recession of domestic ports and shipping enterprises, the shipping e-commerce platform has shown an explosive growth trend, which has become the "outstanding" of the structural adjustment of the shipping industry ".

Reporters learned that the current domestic large and small shipping B2B e-commerce platform has been close to 50. These shipping e-commerce platforms provide more open, transparent and efficient docking services through the Internet, bringing together the originally scattered shipping forwarders and cargo owners on the platform, thus subverting the traditional shipping industry. Take domestic Pan-Asian e-commerce as an example. In 2015, the cumulative transaction amount exceeded 0.3 billion yuan. The volume of domestic trade cases was nearly 2.5 times that of the previous year, and the volume of foreign trade cases surged 9 times that of the previous year.

Bai Peijun, who has been engaged in shipping market research for a long time, said that there is an inherent demand for cost reduction and efficiency increase in the upstream and downstream of the shipping logistics industry chain, and the use of e-commerce platforms to quickly reach customers is conducive to trying shipping business innovation.