Last year, more than 20 percent of the country's top 100 logistics companies saw negative profit growth. In order to further reduce the operating cost of logistics enterprises, reduce the burden of enterprises and promote the development of real economy enterprises, many places, such as guangdong, fujian, hebei, henan, wuhan in hubei province, and nanning in guangxi, have introduced relevant measures to reduce the burden of logistics enterprises.

Over 20% of logistics enterprises profit negative growth

The 2017 annual survey report on the business environment of logistics enterprises released by China federation of logistics and purchasing in the first half of the year shows that the profit level of logistics enterprises surveyed is not high overall, with the average profit margin concentrated in the range of 0~8%. Of these, only 0.9 percent had a profit margin of more than 20 percent, while 24.8 percent had a negative profit margin and 4.4 percent had a loss of more than 20 percent.

The increase of logistics enterprise cost is obvious. Enterprise cost increased by over 5% in 56.1% and by over 20% in 25.4%. Corporate profit growth was slower than revenue and cost growth, with negative growth of 21.8%.

According to the report, there are many reasons for the decline of logistics companies' profits, including the government environment, law enforcement and differentiated tolls.

At the end of 2017, the ministry of transport, the ministry of public security and the general administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine jointly issued the notice on accelerating the reform of inspection and detection of road freight vehicles (transport and transport [no. 20171207]), promoting the merger of inspection and detection of freight vehicles according to law.

However, according to the survey, the policy has not been implemented, and the vehicles still need to be put online and charged repeatedly. In early 2018, the ministry of transport issued relevant supporting policies and measures to further promote the implementation of the policies, and the enterprises expect the implementation plan to be implemented as soon as possible.

For vehicle offsite inspection and detection, many places have not been implemented, and some places have certain restrictions. For example, the annual inspection of vehicles in multiple places requires the application form of the entrusted long-distance test, and the procedures and requirements of the entrusted application vary from place to place, and the procedures are cumbersome, causing the enterprises to be at a loss.

The increase of cost of logistics industry reduces the cost of road and bridge

According to the survey, the top three problems of highway law enforcement were the failure of joint law enforcement, the failure to discharge vehicles after being punished by over-limit and overloaded vehicles, and repeated fines for the same illegal act, accounting for 56.7%, 55.2% and 44.8%, respectively.

According to the investigation, the joint law enforcement of highway control and superhighway is faced with the restriction of system and mechanism and the practical obstacles of system standard, which need to be further implemented.

At present, many provinces and cities in China offer preferential tolls for freight vehicles using electronic non-cash payment card (ETC). According to the survey, ETC card discount is only limited to the ETC card issued in the province, and the trans-provincial transport of the enterprise cannot achieve preferential general, ETC card management has not realized the management of "a box of chess in the country".

Multi-modal transport urgently needs supporting infrastructure

As is known to all, the development of railway transportation, the promotion of multi-modal transport and the adjustment of transport structure are important ways to reduce environmental pollution and improve the efficiency of logistics. But the survey shows that only 37.7% of the surveyed enterprises have used the railway transportation mode in the process of transportation organization. Among them, the proportion of railway transportation is 15.6%, and the proportion of railway transportation is low.

According to the survey, the main problems restricting the development of multi-modal transport in railway industry are the high cost, high freight, and insufficient opening of railway market. Enterprises also reflect the lack of loading and unloading equipment and service standards in many regional railway freight yards, and the cost of short distance transport at both ends is close to the cost of trunk line transport, pushing up the overall cost of railway transport.

In addition, railway transportation capacity is difficult to be guaranteed, railway logistics service level is not high, enterprises and industrial parks lack special railway lines, railway and highway transportation standards do not match, railway information and system are not open, and other problems also restrict the development of multi-modal transport.

According to the survey, multi-modal transport lacks uniform rules, logistics documents are less standardized, information systems are not interconnected and Shared among different modes of transport, which affects the effective connection and multi-modal transport of various modes.

In 2017, the ministry of transport and the national development and reform commission issued the notice on the application of the second batch of multi-modal transport demonstration projects, and the list of the second batch of 30 multi-modal transport demonstration projects has been published. At the same time, the ministry of transport intends to use the vehicle purchase tax funds to support the railway construction of port consolidation and distribution, and multi-modal transport has a good development opportunity, which urgently needs the support of relevant political measures and supporting infrastructure.

Wuhan yangluo hot l container multimodal transport is elected to declare the national first batch of 16 multimodal transport demonstration project, the first phase of the pioject construction was started in June 2016, built in December 2017, in March this year to achieve normalized operation, the total league capacity of 55800 TEU (11700 TEU, 2017, 24900, 2016 TEU and 19200 TEU) in the first half of 2018, the second phase is speeding up its prophase work.

In terms of optimizing the mode of transport organization, wuhan will next develop railway container transport, promote combined transport of iron and water, and raise the rate of railway arrival in important port areas. We will support the development of new forms of logistics, such as "Internet plus" logistics, such as car-free carriers, and promote the rational allocation of logistics resources to improve the efficiency of logistics operations. We will energetically develop suspension transportation and promote the construction of a national pilot project for it.

Recently, fujian province issued to promote the development of real economy enterprises, also clearly proposed to speed up the development of multi-modal transport, urban production and living materials rail transport. We will develop railway container transport, and carry out combined sea and rail transport and iron and water transport. We will promote the opening and sharing of information such as ships, vehicles, trains, ports, stations and goods, so as to achieve "one-stop" online services such as arrival and delivery, clearance inspection, and transfer and settlement.

Four and a half tons of truck certification has been canceled

Recently, many places in China, including guangdong, fujian, hebei, henan, wuhan, hubei and nanning, guangxi have introduced relevant measures to reduce the burden of logistics enterprises.

Fujian province proposed to deepen the reform of toll road system and reduce the cost of overpass. We will steadily expand trials of differentiated charging at different times on expressways. We will speed up the consolidation of freight vehicles for annual inspections, and push forward the reduction of port and highway tolls. We will carry out technical inspections for safety of goods vehicles, comprehensive performance tests and exhaust emissions tests.

Wuhan, hubei further reduces highway tolls and vehicle and ship operating burdens. In 2017, wuhan lowered highway tolls by 132 million yuan and 0.76 million yuan in the first half of this year. The ratio of total social logistics expenses to GDP in the whole city dropped to 14.1%, 0.5 percentage points lower than the national level, ranking among the top cities in the central and western regions.

"Opinions on further reducing the cost of enterprises to cultivate new growth momentum" issued by wuhan on October 10 required a 15% discount on tolls for trucks with access CARDS and a 50% discount on tolls for trucks entering and leaving major ports such as yangluo port. By the end of 2018, the "three inspections" of annual inspection, annual inspection and emission inspection will be realized.

At the same time, fujian, wuhan and other places further simplify the certification of freight vehicles, and cancel the 4.5-ton or less general freight qualification certificate and vehicle operation certificate.

Guangzhou, guangdong province, plans to expand the 85 percent discount on truck tolls to include sections of provincial highways that have been completed and opened by the end of 2017 and by the end of 2018. Guangdong also proposed to strengthen the negotiation and consultation on the last national highway toll project, and strive to reach consensus with the owners to cancel the project charge in advance; Five other large bridge projects will stop charging when they expire.

Many transport functional departments have promised to clean up service charges in transport s, carry out supervision and inspection to resolve problems such as "arbitrary charges and indiscriminate fines", regulate railway freight charges, eliminate unreasonable charges, correct excessive charges and reduce logistics costs.

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