What will the National Transportation and Logistics Information Sharing Platform bring?

The National Transport Logistics Information Sharing Platform has been accelerating since it started construction in 2008. What will this national logistics platform bring to economic development?

In 2008, under the guidance of the Ministry of Transport and on the basis of the Zhejiang Province Logistics Information Public Platform, the 16 provinces' road transportation management departments jointly initiated the establishment of an inter-provincial logistics public information sharing platform, which laid the foundation for the public transportation information sharing platform. Foundation; In 2009, the Ministry of Transport and Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government signed the “Minutes of the Meeting on Promoting the Development of Zhejiang's Transportation Logistics”, making this platform a pilot demonstration project jointly established by the Ministry of Transport and Zhejiang Province; Ministry of Transport, 2011 It is clearly proposed to build a national traffic and logistics information sharing platform on the basis of pilot demonstrations.

Dai Dongchang, chief planner of the Ministry of Transport, said here on December 6 that the construction of the platform is accelerating in the past three years:

The first is to provide the basic network. At present, China has built a main server and seven exchange servers (three in Zhejiang Province, one each in Sichuan, Anhui, Hunan, and Henan) and 10 exchange servers are under construction. With more than 60,000 users, the amount of information exchanged by companies through the platform has reached an average of 150,000 per day;

The second is to provide free software. Five general logistics software, including general transportation, logistics bases, and containers, have been developed, and more than 3,900 companies have been promoted in Zhejiang Province. All small express companies, dangerous goods transport companies, and some leading logistics companies in the province have used common software and achieved networking. At the same time, it completed the transformation of nine major software interfaces such as warehousing, freight forwarding, and transportation in the country, and will soon launch the transformation of 15 software interfaces.

The third is to strengthen the integration of resources. The Center has established a logistics public application center for vehicle trade, industry information, cargo tracking and transportation credit, and has integrated nearly 15 logistics information operators. Comprehensively promote the “one-card” project in logistics parks, port areas, and customs supervision areas, and 14,532 vehicles install RFID (radio frequency identification) cards. Currently, four logistics parks and one port “one card” have been realized, and 10 logistics parks and ports are being connected. District, customs supervision area.

The fourth is to expand domestic and foreign cooperation. The information platform has been interconnected with information systems such as the Zhejiang Electronic Port, Ningbo Electronic Port, and SF Express; the mobile phone positioning link with China Telecom has been completed; COSCO Logistics and COSCON have started to access the platform to promote their connection with upstream and downstream customer data. Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Fujian, Anhui, and Hubei have also started the substantive docking of regional platforms.

What is the role of this platform? Dai Dongchang analyzed that the direct and potential benefits of platform construction are significant and are generally welcomed by transport and logistics companies:

The first is to reduce the redundant construction of informatization. At present, 3,900 free software application companies have already saved 200 million to 400 million yuan in informationization. If they are promoted to 10% of enterprises in the industry, they can save 1.6 billion to 3.3 billion yuan. If they are promoted to the whole country, they can save hundreds. 100 million yuan.

The second is to improve the efficiency of logistics production. By improving the level of informatization, it is possible to speed up the delivery of documents, reduce errors, and improve management efficiency; it can improve the efficiency of vehicle cargo transactions and cargo tracking, reduce the vacancy rate of trucks, and promote energy conservation and emission reduction. According to calculations, Zhejiang Province can thus generate an annual profit of 1.8 billion yuan, and the country can exceed 40 billion yuan.

The third is to reduce social logistics costs. After the full application of the platform, experts estimated that the total cost of social logistics as a percentage of GDP could be reduced by 0.1 percentage points. Zhejiang Province can therefore reduce its logistics costs by 2.1 billion yuan annually, and it can reduce 30 billion yuan nationwide.

What is the future direction of this platform? Dai Dongchang stated that during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the national transportation and logistics information sharing platform will comprehensively improve the platform’s information service capabilities and levels. It is estimated that by the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the platform will integrate 500,000 logistics companies with more than 100,000 software users; and will realize the interconnection of 12 domestic ports (logistics parks) with Japan and South Korea’s port information systems and the service network to ASEAN and Other Asian countries extend. According to conservative estimates, the platform can bring nearly 100 billion yuan in direct economic benefits each year.