In order to better analyze the challenges and opportunities faced by the freight forwarding industry in China, review the current situation of the freight forwarding industry in China:
(A) China freight forwarding industry gradually liberalized and developed rapidly.
In the past two years, with the strong support of the Ministry of Commerce and local government departments, China's freight forwarding market has developed in an orderly manner and has entered a healthy development stage. Freight forwarders are very active in the market and become the main force in China freight forwarding market. In the continuous standardized operation of the market, unlicensed underground freight forwarders are greatly reduced, the living space of illegal freight forwarders is also shrinking, and legal freight forwarders are maturing and growing. By the end of 2003, Shenzhen Freight Company had 4,384 international freight forwarding enterprises approved by the Ministry of Commerce.
(2) The overall scale of industry investment and enterprise scale are small, and the comprehensive competitiveness is weak.
Because China's international freight forwarding industry has been monopolized for a long time, except for a few large freight forwarding companies, other first-class freight forwarders of Shenzhen freight company generally rely on a port city and radiate their business scope to the surrounding areas of this province at most. Only a few companies have nationwide service networks, and even fewer companies have their own foreign networks. Therefore, the comprehensive competitiveness of most domestic freight forwarding enterprises is relatively weak, and there is a clear gap with foreign competitors. After China's entry into WTO, especially after the cancellation of the right to examine and approve the qualifications of freight forwarders, it will face severe challenges of fierce competition with the market.
(C) The establishment of china international freight forwarders association marks the marketization and standardization of freight forwarding industry in China.
China international freight forwarders association was founded on September 6th, 2000. It is a non-governmental organization in the freight forwarding industry in all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of China. It is an industry organization that international freight forwarding enterprises and enterprises and institutions related to freight forwarding voluntarily participate in. At the same time, it recruits individuals with high influence in China freight forwarding, transportation and logistics industries as its individual members. China international freight forwarders association is directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce, with about 600 direct members (including 23 corporate members). The establishment of the Association has set up a platform for exchanges and cooperation among member enterprises, with a view to jointly safeguarding the market environment, standardizing market behavior and establishing a fair and open market economic order. It is an important organization for industry self-discipline.
The Administrative Licensing Law, which will be implemented on July 1 2004, clearly points out that the cancellation of the examination and approval authority of international freight forwarding enterprises marks the further liberalization of China's freight forwarding industry and brings greater opportunities to many freight forwarding enterprises.
Service scope:
★ General service scope: a. Handling luggage consignment, railway express service and parcel service from Shanghai to all parts of the country; B. Handling road transportation from Shanghai to Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu and all parts of the country, which can be reached by large, medium and small cities; C. Handling long-distance chartered cars and empty cars from Shanghai to all parts of the country; D. Handling goods storage E. Handling express mail service from Shanghai to all parts of the country.
★ Special service scope: a. Undertaking personal or company moving business from Shanghai to large, medium and small cities in China; B. Handling packaging and transportation services such as pictorial, color painting and hand-painted oil painting; C. Handling the transportation business of ordinary and high-grade cosmetics; D. Providing luggage packing and consignment services for college students or company employees; F. provide customized wooden box packaging services for customers; Professional handling, packaging and transportation of pianos.
★ Special service scope: a. Automobile consignment: specialized automobile, automobile transportation and consignment, with a number of company alliances, annual safe transportation and throughput exceeding 200,000 vehicles, covering all parts of the country, all networked, mainly serving automobile manufacturers such as SAIC Volkswagen (SVWSC), Suzhou General Motors (SGM) and brilliance jinbei. Provide door-to-door one-stop service B. Long-distance moving business: Suzhou-centered long-distance moving business has been provided for some companies and individuals. The company's boss desk, boss chair, sofa, filing cabinet, personal color TV, refrigerator and washing machine all have professional packaging and transportation experience, and several long-distance moving businesses are received and undertaken every day!
★ Logistics packaging service scope: a. Wooden case packaging: a professional carpenter, skilled, specially customized wooden case packaging for customers. For example, customers' precision instruments, electrical equipment, computer accessories, expensive equipment, glassware, etc. It should be packed in wooden cases, which are divided into fully enclosed, semi-enclosed and lattice boxes. In order to prevent the loss caused by collision and vibration during the transportation of goods and improve the safety of transportation, the thickness, density and length of wood will be selected according to the actual situation of products, and the packaging is stable and earthquake-resistant, which is suitable for transportation. B. Carton packaging: For example, customers' accessories, household appliances, luggage and computers should be packed in cartons, and related cartons should be provided according to different types and specifications of products. In addition, cushioning materials (such as foam and other fillers) are added.
★ The available carton specifications are as follows: A, 15 display box, 17 inch display box, host box and server box. Glove box: there are different specifications and models of packing boxes. C. Packing boxes for refrigerators, color TVs and washing machines.