Speed up the construction of modern logistics system railway quality and cost reduction two-wheel drive
2024/8/27 18:08:47
China Daily, August 26, recently, carrying 14 new railway ventilation containers, 48,056 trains loaded with nearly 300 tons of soybean meal from Quanzhou Shicuo station to Nanping Shaowu Station, which marks the first batch of new railway ventilation containers in Fujian Province officially shipped. It means that special goods such as soybean meal, which are easy to accumulate heat and spontaneous combustion, have made a breakthrough in railway transportation.
At the same time, 50 carloads of coal were loaded on the special line of Shage port in the port and sent to Jiangxi Shimen Wei Station via Xingquan, Zhangquan and Zhanglong Railway from Shicuo Station, and then through the branch railway to Jiangxi Wanyeng Cement Co., LTD. The freight from the railway has been reduced by 10%, and now we switch from road transport to sea-rail combined transport, which is expected to save 300 yuan per car." Manager Xu Gang is satisfied with the current mode of transport.
Network density policy support directly reduces transportation costs
According to Xu Gang, coal is the main fuel used in cement production, and because of the new mode of sea-rail transport, not only the price is favorable, the transportation is efficient, the transportation capacity is stable, and the transportation service can be guaranteed, Jiangxi Wanqing ordered 76,000 tons of coal at a time, which was transported to Quanzhou Shage port by cargo ship, and then directly transported to the cement factory by rail. Now we ship 50 carloads of coal a day, and because there are dedicated lines at both ends to solve the 'last kilometer' problem, there is no need for road transportation throughout the whole process, not only the freight rate is lower, but the transportation efficiency has been improved."
As the "capillary" and "nerve end" of railway freight, railway special lines are of great significance to close the connection between railway and port, reduce ineffective loading and unloading links, reduce logistics costs such as turnover and storage, and improve the overall economic operation efficiency. In the past five years, China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as Southern Railway) has built and renovated 14 special lines covering 57.77 kilometers in Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, and by the end of 2023, the total freight volume of all special railway lines in operation has been completed by 145 million tons. We are now on board the express train of sea-rail transport, and I am very confident about the company's development prospects." "Xu Gang said.
Jiangxi Chenming Paper Co., Ltd. is also a direct beneficiary of freight downward, thanks to the Southern Railway Nanchang railway logistics Center "tailored" logistics plan and freight downward preferential policies, the company shipped a total of 258 TEU of slag through the railway, to achieve a reduction in transportation costs of about 500,000 yuan. The proper rate policy given to us by the railway department has reduced our transportation expenses, and through rail transportation, many sales' jams' in the long thread have been cleared." Xiong Cui, manager of sales department of Jiangxi Chenming Paper Co., Ltd. praised.
In recent years, the Southern Railway has made good use of the authority to adjust freight rates independently, effectively reduced transportation, warehousing and management costs, increased price concessions, and enhanced marketing capabilities. Through the continuous implementation of the inclusive price reduction policy of railway special line enterprise agent service fee, the special line agent service fee was reduced by 23.35 million yuan, a decrease of 31.2%.
Innovative products and equipment upgrades continue to improve transportation efficiency
"Reducing the logistics cost of the whole society is not only to reduce the price of services, but more importantly, to build the whole chain of modern logistics based on the overall situation of economic development, to promote institutional, structural, managerial, and technical cost reduction with greater efforts, to further enhance the core competitiveness of railway freight, and to improve the efficiency of economic operation." Wang Zhengyu, deputy director of freight department of China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group Co., LTD.
In Nanchang Xiangtang International Dry Port, the X9558 train carrying 50 containers has completed the quality inspection and will be sent to Ningbo Beilun Port. The opening of the Xiangtang-Beilun Port Express train can realize the direct destination of goods within 20 hours, and the transportation time has been compressed by nearly one-third. Since 2024, 325 train lines and 32,548 TEU have been issued from Xiangtang to Beilun Port, and this line has become an important land channel for goods to go to sea in Nanchang area.
It is understood that since 2020, the South Railway has launched a total of 25 intermodal trains from Xiangtang to Ningbo Port, Xiamen Port, Yantian Port, Ganzhou International Port to Yantian Port, Xiamen Port, Huangtang to Tuanjiecun and other internal and inter-bureau, taking the Huangtang to Tuanjiecun class as an example, the railway transportation time between the two places can be compressed from the original 4 and a half days to 2 and a half days. We actively integrate into the market, strengthen the linkage between road and enterprise, explore mutually beneficial cooperation programs between road and enterprise, and constantly optimize railway freight products." Wang Zhengyu introduced that the railway department is speeding up the construction of the modern railway logistics system through the whole chapter establishment optimization management, and vigorously promoting the upgrading of modern logistics hardware facilities, etc. "The loading, unloading, scheduling, transportation and other aspects of the whole process are deeply analyzed and optimized to effectively reduce costs, improve quality and increase efficiency for the cargo owners."
In order to accelerate the construction of a modern logistics system, enable new advantages in regional economic market competition, and help the high-quality development of the real economy. Since the beginning of this year, Southern Railway has continuously upgraded logistics services, with the goal of optimizing the logistics supply chain of products and raw materials and reducing logistics costs, and signed railway transportation contracts with Fujian Sansteel Group and Jiangxi Xinsteel Group with an annual transportation volume of 11 million tons and 11.5 million tons, respectively. Through the signing of the volume and price mutual insurance agreement, the bulk commodity railway traffic volume is locked in advance, and the traffic volume, freight rate, and capacity are also targeted to provide protection for the needs of enterprises, so as to achieve mutual benefit and win-win between the two sides of the road enterprises, and realize the organic connection and sustainable common development of the logistics industry and manufacturing industry.
At the same time, South Railway continues to improve railway yard facilities and railway equipment, accelerate the planning and construction of 17 logistics bases, expand the "bulk transformation" transportation, actively promote the transportation of open top boxes, wide-body boxes, loose tank boxes, soybean meal boxes, and actively save freight transportation expenses for customers, reduce capital turnover costs, and achieve a win-win situation for road enterprises. Our cold chain trains, commercial trains, white freight trains, including the first batch of soybean meal boxes shipped this time, are all 'customized' services carried out by the railway in response to the 'personalized' needs of customers." CAI Wanhai, manager of Quanzhou Business Department of Fuzhou Railway Logistics Center, introduced that after the normal transportation of the new ventilated container, the enterprise can save 20 to 30 yuan per ton of soybean meal compared with the original transportation cost.
Adjust the structure to release the potential and vigorously promote multimodal transport
Logistics general business smooth, smooth business economic prosperity. Focusing on the real economy, the structural reform of the supply side of railway freight has continued. From the statistical point of view, in 2023, the national container hot metal intermodal transport increased by more than 15% year-on-year, the proportion of multimodal transport steadily increased, and the railway accelerated the adjustment of transportation structure, which has a significant effect on the improvement of logistics efficiency.
Jiangxi river system is developed, Fujian side of the sea, Southern railway to give full play to the advantages of port, vigorously develop multimodal transport. Relying on the "three same" policy of Jiangxi Province, Southern Railway adopts the mode of "government construction, railway support, and total contract" to strengthen cooperation with local governments, logistics enterprises, and ship port companies to build the volume of water-railway combined transport. Give full play to the function of the operation platform of Fujian Southeast Multimodal Transport Company, expand the new channel of sea-rail intermodal transport, establish the customer base of "one port, one policy" hot metal intermodal transport enterprise, increase the proportion of sea-rail intermodal transport, and expand the market share of multimodal transport. In 2023, the combined transport of hot metal in Jiangxi Province will complete 224,000 TEU and send 3.733 million tons, an increase of 124% and 120% compared with 100,000 TEU and 1.7 million tons in 2020.
"The development of multimodal transport is an important measure to structurally reduce logistics costs." Wang Zhengyu said that in recent years, Southern Railway has constantly adjusted the transport structure and actively promoted the "one single system" and "one box system" of multimodal transport, which has effectively promoted the high-quality development of public rail and sea-rail combined transport. Jiangxi and Fujian provinces respectively established a special class mechanism to jointly promote the development of hot metal combined transport, and worked together to promote the "transit rail" and "transit water", which laid a solid foundation for accelerating the reduction of logistics costs in the whole society and promoting high-quality economic development.
As an important part of the modern logistics system, the railway department has been committed to improving the service ability of "one order to the end" to fulfill the contract, constantly improving the level of digital multimodal transport management, and improving the efficiency of transport capacity connection and logistics resources utilization. At present, the multi-link express connecting inland logistics node cities has covered provincial capital cities, and the Rail-sea Express train connecting ports and inland hinterland cities has covered major ports across the country.
In order to further build a modern logistics system and give full play to the structural advantages of sea-rail combined transport, South Railway regularly cooperates with local governments, logistics enterprises and shipping port companies, taking Jiangyin Port, Dongfu, Nanchang and Ganzhou International buses as the core, reducing the costs at both ends, implementing a series of policies such as free container storage fees at the port and reducing port sundry charges to achieve the volume of sea-rail combined transport. In order to adapt to the multiple characteristics of the volume and category of ferrous metal combined transport projects, in 2024, Southern Railway announced the "positive list" of container transport items, fully liberalized the range of ferrous metal combined transport categories, and fully implemented the policy of 35-45% of ferrous metal combined transport freight floating, directly reducing the cost by 70 million yuan per year.
Logistics is the "muscles" of the real economy. Railway has the characteristics of large capacity, long distance, all-weather, less investment, low cost, but also has the advantages of safety, energy saving, small pollution, occupying less land, China's vast territory, inland wide and deep, the need to rely on railway this has the advantages of long-distance transportation of land transport, as a long-span economic ties and mutual exchanges. It will inject new momentum into reducing social logistics costs, serving the real economy and high-quality development of people's lives.
