The international shipping industry has changed a lot in recent years, including the changes brought by mergers and acquisitions within the industry, as well as the impact brought by the application of Internet technology. Since the organization began to invest in the field of international maritime logistics in 2014, many start-ups have been working in this field, which has brought many real changes to the industry. These changes mainly include the following aspects:
The merger of shipping companies has been rising one after another, resulting in the larger and larger scale and concentrated capacity of the head shipping companies. Representational examples include the merger of COSCO and China Sea, the acquisition of Hamburg by Maersk and the merger of three Japanese shipping companies into ONE. As the most important upstream supplier of logistics chain, the trend of centralization will also have some impact on the mode of Internet logistics platform.
The emergence of multiple tariff platforms reduces the number of flights that originally depend on information asymmetry, rapidly reduces the supply chain level offline, and also makes the online trading mode, which originally relies on deleting the level to bring low tariffs to the terminal customers, lose its foundation. Experience in many B2B industries shows that online trading mode has at least 20-30% advantage over offline trading mode in cost or efficiency, otherwise it is difficult to promote. The international maritime logistics industry also needs to explore other feasible models.
The degree of integration, integration and openness of basic information in the industry has increased rapidly. Shanghai Port integrated the cargo information of Shanghai Port in March last year and opened it to the public; Ningbo Port integrated information earlier than Shanghai; and truck positioning information nationwide was also integrated early last year. The openness of business information of big men in the industry, such as wharfs and large shipping companies, plays an important role in promoting the transparency, standardization and efficiency of the whole industry.
The rapid growth of human cost and the difficulty of recruitment in the past two years have made the industry pay more and more attention to systematization and upstream and downstream interconnection. Like Foxconn's large-scale promotion of automation to replace highly dependent on human resources, the future international maritime logistics industry will also face dramatic changes brought about by systematization and intellectualization.