The international shipping industry has undergone tremendous changes in recent years. There are changes in the industry driven by mergers and acquisitions, as well as the impact of Internet technology applications. Since the beginning of the company's focus on investing in international maritime logistics in 2014, many entrepreneurs have worked hard in this field, bringing many real changes to the industry. These changes mainly include the following aspects:
The merger of shipping companies has taken place one after another, resulting in the growing size of the head shipping company and the concentration of capacity. Representatives such as the merger of COSCO and China Shipping, Maersk acquired Hamburg South America, Japan's three shipping companies merged into ONE and so on. As the most important upstream supplier of the logistics chain, the shipping company will also have some influence on the Internet logistics platform model.
The emergence of multiple tariff platforms reduced the number of flyers that were originally based on information asymmetry, quickly compressed the supply chain hierarchy under the line, and also enabled the line that originally brought low tariffs to the end customers by deleting the hierarchy. The trading model has lost its foundation. The experience of many B2B industries shows that the online trading model has at least 20-30% advantage over the offline trading model in terms of cost or efficiency, otherwise it is difficult to promote. The international maritime logistics industry also needs to explore other feasible models.
The integration, integration and openness of the underlying information of the industry has increased rapidly. Shanghai Port integrated the cargo information of Shanghai Port in March last year and opened it to the public; the information integration of Ningbo Port was earlier than that of Shanghai; the nationwide truck positioning information was also integrated at the beginning of last year. The opening of business information such as docks and large shipping companies has played a pivotal role in promoting transparency, standardization and efficiency improvement of the entire industry.
The rapid growth of labor costs and the recruitment that has been highlighted in the past two years have made the industry pay more and more attention to systematization and upstream and downstream interconnection. Just like Foxconn's large-scale promotion of automation to replace highly dependent manpower, the future international maritime logistics industry will also face drastic changes brought about by systematization and intelligence.