Causes of container transportation

1, improving economic benefits The high economic benefits of container transportation are mainly reflected in the following aspects: 1) Simplifying packaging and saving a lot of packaging costs. In order to prevent the goods from being damaged in transit, it is necessary to have strong packaging. The container has the characteristics of firmness and sealing, which is an excellent packaging in itself. The use of containers can simplify the packaging, and some even do not need packaging, which can realize the unpackaged transportation of groceries and greatly save the packaging cost. 2) Reduce cargo damage and cargo difference, and improve freight quality. Because the container is a solid sealed box, the container itself is a solid package. After the goods are boxed and sealed with lead, there is no need to unpack and flip them on the way, and even if they are transported for a long distance or reloaded repeatedly, it is not easy to damage the goods in the box. Container transportation can reduce the damage and difference of goods caused by theft, humidity and defacement. Very popular with shippers and shipping companies. Moreover, due to the reduction of cargo damage and cargo difference rate, the waste of social wealth is reduced, which has great social benefits. 3) Reduce operating expenses and transportation costs. Because container loading and unloading are basically not affected by bad weather, the unproductive berthing time of ships is shortened, and because of high loading and unloading efficiency and shortened loading and unloading time, for shipping companies, the navigation rate can be improved, the shipping cost can be reduced, and for ports, the berth throughput can be improved, thus increasing revenue. 2. Improving transportation efficiency The traditional transportation mode has many shortcomings, such as many loading and unloading links, high labor intensity, low loading and unloading efficiency and slow ship turnover. Container transportation has completely changed this situation. 1) The loading and unloading of ordinary cargo ships is generally about 35t per hour, while the loading and unloading of containers can reach about 400t per hour, which greatly improves the loading and unloading efficiency. At the same time, due to the high degree of mechanization of container loading and unloading, the number of stevedores required by each team is very small, and the average labor productivity of each worker is greatly improved. 2) Because the container handling efficiency is high, it is less affected by the climate, and the ship's stay time in the port is greatly shortened, so the ship's sailing time is shortened, the ship's turnover is accelerated, the sailing rate is greatly improved, and the ship's production efficiency is also improved accordingly, thus improving the ship's transportation capacity, completing more traffic, and increasing the income of the shipping company, with high efficiency and high efficiency. We must do what we can according to our national strength and finally realize containerization. 3. In order to adapt to multimodal transport, when container transportation is reloaded between different modes of transport, it is not necessary to put the goods in the container, but only to replace the container, which improves the efficiency of reloading operation and is suitable for intermodal transport between different modes of transport. When reloading and transshipment, the customs and relevant regulatory units only need to seal or inspect the seal and forward it to the customs for release, which improves the transportation efficiency.