Container logistics compared to general freight advantages?

1, high-efficiency mode of transportation

Container transportation economic efficiency is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1) simplify the packaging, a large number of savings in packaging costs. In order to avoid damage to the goods in transit, there must be strong packaging, and the container has a strong, sealed features, which itself is an excellent packaging. The use of containers can simplify the packaging, and some even without packaging, realize the piece of grocery transportation without packaging, can greatly save packaging costs.

2) Reduce cargo loss and improve the quality of freight transportation. As the container is a solid sealed box, the container itself is a solid packaging. After the goods are boxed and sealed, on the way without unboxing inverted load, a vote in the end, even after long-distance transportation or many times to change, it is not easy to damage the goods in the box. Container transportation can reduce the theft, moisture, pollution and other causes of cargo loss and cargo difference, by the owner and the shipping company's welcome, and due to the reduction of cargo loss and cargo difference rate, reduce the waste of social wealth, but also has a great social benefits.

3) Reduce operating expenses, reduce transportation costs, due to the container loading and unloading is basically not affected by bad weather, the ship non-productive berthing time is shortened, but also due to the high loading and unloading efficiency, loading and unloading time is shortened, the shipping company, can improve the sailing rate, reduce the cost of ship transportation, the port, you can increase the berth throughput capacity, so as to improve the throughput, and increase revenue.

2, high-efficiency mode of transport

The traditional mode of transport has more loading and unloading links, labor intensity, low loading and unloading efficiency, slow turnover of ships and other shortcomings. And container transportation has completely changed this situation.

1) Ordinary cargo ship loading and unloading, generally about 35t per hour, while the container loading and unloading, up to 400t per hour or so, loading and unloading efficiency has increased dramatically. At the same time, due to the container loading and unloading of a high degree of mechanization, and thus the number of loading and unloading workers required for each shift is very small, the average labor productivity of each worker greatly improved.

2) Due to the container loading and unloading efficiency is very high, by the climate impact is small, the ship in the port stay time is greatly shortened, so the ship voyage time is shortened, the ship turnover is accelerated, the voyage rate is greatly improved, the ship production efficiency is improved, thus, improving the ship transportation capacity, in the case of not increasing the number of ships, can be accomplished more volume, increase the income of the shipping company, so that the high efficiency leads to high benefit.

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3, high investment mode of transportation

Container transportation is a highly efficient mode of transportation, but it is also a highly capital-intensive industry.

1) shipping companies must make huge investments in ships and containers. According to relevant information, container ships per cubic foot of the cost of construction is about 3.7 ~ 4 times the ordinary cargo ships. Container investment is quite large, to carry out the high investment required for container transportation, so that the shipping company's total cost of fixed costs accounted for a considerable proportion, up to more than two thirds.

2) Investment in container transportation in the port is also quite large. Dedicated container berths of the terminal facilities, including the quay shoreline and frontage, cargo yards, cargo terminals, maintenance workshops, control towers, gatehouses, as well as container loading and unloading machinery, etc., at great expense.

3) in order to carry out the container multimodal transport, but also need to have the corresponding interstate facilities and inland freight stations, etc., in order to support the construction, which requires the construction, expansion, renovation, renewal of existing highways, railroads, bridges, culverts, etc., there is not enough money to carry out container transport, the realization of the containerization is difficult, it must be based on the country's ability to do according to the amount of resources, and finally realize the containerization.

4, high collaboration mode of transportation

Container transportation involves a wide range of aspects, links, impact, is a complex transportation system engineering. Container transportation system, including shipping, land transport, air transport, ports, freight stations and container transportation related to customs, commodity inspection, shipping agencies, freight forwarding companies and other units and departments. If they do not cooperate with each other, it will affect the function of the entire transportation system, if a link failure, will affect the overall situation, and even lead to transportation production stops and interruptions. Therefore, the requirement to improve the entire transportation system links, a high degree of collaboration between departments.

5, suitable for the organization of multimodal transport

Since the container transport in different modes of transport between the changeover, do not need to carry the goods in the box and only need to change the container, which improves the efficiency of the changeover operation, suitable for different modes of transport between the joint transport. In the change of transshipment, customs and the relevant regulatory units only need to add sealing or sealing transfer clearance, thus improving the efficiency of transportation.

In addition, due to international container transport and multimodal transport is a capital-intensive, technology-intensive and management requirements of the industry, is a complex transportation system engineering, which requires management personnel, technical personnel, business personnel with high quality, in order to be able to do the job, in order to give full play to the superiority of international container transport.