Since the common parts cargo transport there has long been a low handling and transportation efficiency, long time, damage, poor seriously affect the quality of freight, freight complicated procedures, affect efficiency, so shippers, shipping companies and ports have an extremely economic any negative impact. In order to solve the ordinary cargo transport groceries parts above shortcomings can not be overcome, it proved only by container transport, in order to solve the above problem.

 

How to speed up the process of circulation of goods, reduce distribution costs, saving logistics labor consumption, fast, low cost, efficient and cost-effective completion of the production process and transport to reach the destination of goods delivered to the consignee, which requires change mode of transport, making it a high-efficiency, high efficiency and high quality of transport mode of transport, and container transport, it is such a mode of transport. It has the following features.

 

First, the cost-effective mode of transport

 

High economic efficiency of container transport is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

 

1. Simplified packaging, save a lot of packing. To avoid damage to goods in transit, there must be strong packaging, containers and a rugged, sealed characteristic, which itself is an excellent package. Use packaging container can be simplified, and some do not even need the package to achieve groceries transported unpackaged, can greatly save packaging costs.

 

2. Reduce cargo damage, improve the quality of freight. Since the container is a sturdy sealed box, the container itself is a solid package. Seals and packing of goods after unpacking the way down without loading, one vote in the end, even after long-distance transport or more facelift, easy to damage the goods inside. Container transport movement can reduce theft, moisture, contamination and other goods and cargo damage caused by the poor, by shippers and shipping companies welcomed, and since reduced cargo damage goods slip, reducing the waste of social wealth, but also has great social benefits.

 

3. Reduce operating costs, reduce transportation costs, due to the loading and unloading of containers is substantially affected by the bad weather, the ship moored unproductive time is reduced, and because the efficient loading and unloading, loading and unloading time is shortened, ship companies, can increase the rate of sailing, reduce shipping costs, the port, the berth can be improved by the ability to improve throughput and increase revenue.

 

Second, the high efficiency of transport

 

The traditional mode of transport has many links handling, labor-intensive, low efficiency of loading and unloading, ship slow turnover and other shortcomings. The container transportation completely changed this situation.

 

First, general cargo handling, general hourly rate of around 35t, and container handling per hour up to about 400t, handling efficiency is greatly improved. At the same time, due to the high degree of container loading and unloading mechanization, thus each team required number of workers handling small, average labor productivity per worker increased substantially.

 

In addition, due to the high efficiency of container handling, small climate impact Ship residence time is shortened, thus shortening the time the ship voyage, the ship turnaround accelerated rate greatly improve navigation, marine productivity increase as in Hong Kong, so as to improve shipping capacity, without increasing the number of vessels the ship, the more traffic can be done to increase the income of shipping companies, so that high efficiency leads to high returns.

 

Third, the mode of transport of high investment

 

Although the container transport is an efficient mode of transport, but it is also a highly capital-intensive industries. First, the company must ship containers and ship huge amounts of investment. Based on the data showed that the cost per cubic foot container ship about 3.7 to 4 times that of ordinary cargo ships. Container considerable investment, high investment required to carry out container transportation, making the total cost of the shipping company's fixed costs occupy a large proportion, up to two-thirds.

 

Secondly, investment in port container transport is also quite large. Dedicated container berth marina and quay facilities include front, yard, freight station, maintenance workshop, a control tower, concierge, as well as container handling machinery and costly.

 

Furthermore, in order to carry out intermodal container, the need to have appropriate facilities within international and inland cargo terminals, in order to complete the construction, which requires the construction, expansion, renovation, updating existing roads, railways, bridges, culverts and other investment in this area is even more amazing! Visible, do not have enough funds to carry container transport, containerization is difficult to achieve, we must do what according to strength and finally realize containerized.

 

Fourth, high transport cooperation

 

Container transport involves a wide range, many links, high-impact, is a complex transportation system. Container transport systems including maritime, land, air, ports and freight stations and container transport and related customs, commodity inspection, shipping agents, freight forwarders and other units and departments. If you cooperate with each other properly, it will affect the play of the entire transport system functionality, if a link failure, will affect the overall situation, and even lead to transport production to a standstill and interrupts. Therefore, the requirements improve various aspects of the transportation system, a high degree of coordination between the various departments.

 

Five, suitable for multimodal transport organization

 

Due to container transport between the different modes of transport and changing, but simply Needless to transport goods inside containers facelift, which improves operational efficiency facelift, adapted to combined transport between the different modes of transport. When facelift transport, customs and relevant regulatory units or just sealed inspection seal transfer customs clearance, improving transport efficiency.

 

In addition, the international container transport and multimodal transport is a capital-intensive, technology-intensive and high management requirements of the industry, is a complex transportation system, which requires managers, technicians, service personnel, etc. with high quality in order to do the job in order to give full play to the superiority of the international Container transport.