In the third session of the global maritime summit, Orient International Logistics Group General Manager Yang Gen made a keynote speech, on the Chinese freight situation and development he said that the current international situation, Chinese freight forwarding market development is facing three major difficulties, one is the freight forwarding market competition is more intense, enterprise's living space is getting smaller; two from the freight forwarding mechanism mainly means of marketing competition cheap and social relations, the commission based profit model is more difficult to play a role; the three is the lack of overseas agent network.
International freight forwarding 2 years increased by 6.4 times
He said, the Baltic index fell below 1000 points, compared with last year's high of 11793 points, down 90%, a record in 2002 the lowest since August, visible, and the global economy is closely related to the shipping market of the winter has come, the associated international freight forwarding and logistics enterprises also will withstand cold test. He said that under the current situation, Chinese forwarding industry increasingly fierce competition, he quoted the Shanghai data, by the end of October, the city of Shanghai by the Ministry of Commerce of the international freight forwarding enterprises reached 4647, including Sino foreign joint ventures and wholly foreign-owned freight forwarding enterprise 955, Hong Kong and Taiwan investment enterprises is 320, after the filing system from 2005, the new international freight forwarding enterprises reached 4019, is 6.4 times the total number of enterprises before 2005. Freight forwarding market to a certain extent, is disrupted, strictly speaking without the Ministry of Commerce for the record registration of freight forwarding companies, significantly more than the record registration of enterprises.
He said, in addition, freight forwarding agency marketing means the main competition cheap and social relations, the original commission based profit model has little or no effect; and because of the lack of overseas agent network, Chinese international cargo agent enterprises it is difficult to go abroad, often provide services is relatively simple, the business scope is relatively small, relatively simple way of service at present, however, China more than 80% of the import and export of goods and transit operations, and more than 90% international air transport business is through international freight forwarders in the end, the prospect of this financial turmoil is not optimistic.
He pointed out that the proposal to deal with the crisis, one freight forwarding logistics enterprises should explore innovative business models and services, to find ways to adapt to their own survival and living space. The two is the traditional freight forwarding enterprises, service to accept the booking service from a single extended to two, extended supply chain, increase the added value of the supply chain. Three is the future of the logistics market is still a lot of opportunities, according to consulting firm forecast, in 2010, the logistics outsourcing market will increase to 1 billion of the u.s.. Industry development needs to maintain confidence.