The railway freight market is increasing in volume and quality
On the morning of July 5, as a freight train loaded with sand and stone arrived at the Dahongmen Freight Yard of the Beijing Railway Logistics Center of China Railway Beijing Bureau Group Co., LTD., the operators were immediately busy, quickly unloading the containers to short shuttle transport vehicles and then transporting them to the concrete mixing stations in Beijing. According to statistics, in the first half of this year, the Beijing Bureau of National Railway has transported 1.769 million tons of sand and stone into Beijing, an increase of 772,000 tons year-on-year, an increase of 77.4%, providing an effective help for serving the adjustment of Beijing's transportation structure and promoting transit rail transportation.
Railway is a low-cost and efficient mode of transportation for large volume of traffic. Since the beginning of this year, the railway sector has continued to deepen the market-oriented reform of freight transport, accelerated the construction of a modern railway logistics system, proactively docking enterprise production and logistics market demand, increasing freight capacity, optimizing the supply of railway logistics products and transportation organization, and improving the quantity and quality of the freight market, providing strong support for the recovery of the national economy and reducing the logistics cost of the whole society.
Effectively supporting economic and social development
"Every additional train installed can increase the volume of traffic by about 3,500 tons." We have taken various measures to break transport bottlenecks and ensure fast loading and delivery of key materials such as coal." China Railway Urumqi Bureau Group Co., LTD. Dispatching plan dispatching room director Liu Lu said.
In the first half of this year, China's national economy continued to recover to a good trend, and the overall operation was stable and stable. Among them, the railway department gives full play to the advantages of the system and mechanism of the national railway network and the centralized and unified command of dispatch, continues to deepen the structural reform of the supply side of railway transport, accelerates the construction of freight channels, and builds an advanced and efficient collection and distribution system, providing an important traffic guarantee.
In order to fully release the capacity of transport channels, Xinjiang Railway, combined with the actual increase in the number of trains entering Xinjiang after the completion of the first stage of centralized construction of the Xinjiang section of Lanxin Railway, strengthened the organization of direct trains out of Xinjiang, accelerated the train convection exchange at the Lanxin Railway Anbei Station and other boundary points, realized the large entry and exit of trains in and out of Xinjiang, made vehicles quickly cycle up, and ensured the smooth flow of transport channels.
"By tapping the potential and improving the efficiency, we have ensured the growth of the number of empty cars from the source, and ensured that there are cars when there are goods." Recently, the average daily number of coal trains transported by Xinjiang railway to other parts of Xinjiang reached 62, 23 more than the same period last year." State railway Urumqi Bureau 95306 freight service center senior marketing manager Chen Kaiqiang said.
Not only Xinjiang, the national railway department carefully organized to welcome the peak summer energy supply transportation, make good use of Daqin, Haoji, Wari, Tangbao, Lanxin railway and other major freight channels, vigorously open 10,000 tons of trains, strengthen the west to east coal transport, north to south coal transport, Xinjiang coal transport organization, in June, the national railway coal average daily loading of 83,500 vehicles, an increase of 5.6%. The average daily loading of electric coal was 59,000 vehicles, an increase of 3% over the same period last year, and both reached a record high in the same period.
At the same time, the railway department also carefully organized the transportation of key materials such as oil, fertilizers and pesticides, flood control and disaster relief, opened up green channels, gave the transport capacity tilt, and implemented priority transport, priority loading and priority loading to ensure efficient delivery. In June, the national railway traffic volume of oil and fertilizers and pesticides increased by 4.0% and 26.2% respectively.
Data from China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. show that in June this year, the national railway sent 332 million tons of cargo and completed 266.5 billion tons of freight turnover, an increase of 6.1% and 5.3% respectively, both of which hit a record high in the same period. At present, China's railway freight volume, freight turnover and other indicators rank first in the world, and continue to maintain high operation.
We will deepen transport reform to improve quality and efficiency
Stepping on the first ray of sunshine in the morning, Shen Yi, director of the warehousing and distribution operation room of Fuzhou Huifeng Supply Chain Management Co., LTD., Fuzhou Railway Logistics Center, began a busy day's work. Since undertaking the railway logistics package business of a brand of mineral water in April, Fuzhou Railway Logistics Center, through active visits to customers and in-depth communication, has upgraded and developed the 2.0 version logistics package plan of "warehouse distribution integration" on the basis of the previous version of "door-to-door" logistics package service 1.0, saving intermediate logistics links and improving transportation efficiency. Reduce logistics costs for the owner of more than 10 yuan/ton.
In recent years, the railway sector has taken the initiative to embrace the market and deepen the reform of transport services. Give full play to the role of 40 railway logistics centers across the country, accelerate the development of logistics packages, customize logistics solutions for enterprises, promote the transformation of railway transport from traditional "station to station" to "door to door" logistics services, and sign a total of 330 million tons of logistics contracts.
The Kunming to Chengdu high-speed rail Express train has been in operation for the first year, with a total of 652 trains. The maximum load capacity of the 1,127-kilometer journey is 70 tons, and the fastest cargo can be delivered to the destination in 5 hours and 51 minutes.
Miao Yingyou, deputy director of the freight department of China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co., LTD., said that efficient transportation efficiency, so that Yunnan plateau specialties, fresh food, business emergencies, biomedicine, electronic products and other high value-added goods can be quickly circulated, merchants in the morning in Kunming Dounan flower market to buy flowers, the same day through high-speed rail express to arrive in Chengdu florist, quickly listed on the market.
In addition, the railway department has also vigorously developed multimodal transport, developed 17 new types of steel coil boxes, grain boxes, dangerous cargo liquid tank boxes, and actively promoted the "one single system" and "one box system" of multimodal transport, compressed the intermediate links, further enhanced the competitiveness of the railway freight market, and effectively promoted the high-quality development of public and rail combined transport and sea-rail combined transport. Multi-link express trains connecting inland logistics node cities have covered provincial capital cities, and rail and sea Express trains connecting ports and inland hinterland cities have covered major ports across the country.
The railway department also deepened cooperation with financial institutions, and continued to improve the logistics financial service products of freight loan, letter of credit settlement, and railway document financing. The total amount of credit financing was 12.1 billion yuan, and small and micro customers accounted for more than 80%, effectively reducing customer financing costs. Actively explore market-oriented tariff mechanism, according to the transportation needs of "transit rail", tailor-made "one price" transportation scheme for customers, effectively reducing the whole logistics cost.
Ensure the stability of industrial and supply chains
In midsummer, Yunnan Mohan Railway port train shuttle, a busy scene. Tropical fruits such as durian and mangosteen produced in Thailand and Laos, and the "new three kinds" made in China pass through the port of entry and exit on the international cargo train of the "Lancang-Mekong Express Line" of the China-Laos railway and sell well in major cities.
"Durian, mangosteen and other fruits imported from Thailand can be transported to Kunming via the Nanjun meter-gauge loading station of the China-Laos Railway in Vientiane, which is the fastest way of transportation." Zhang Chengluan, deputy general manager of Laos-China Railway Operation Center of Yunnan Nentou Logistics Co., LTD., said, "Since the beginning of this year, our company has transported 12,000 tons of Thai durian, mangosteen and other fruits through the cold chain container of China-Laos railway."
The secretary of the Party General branch of the Mohan Station of the Puer train section of the Kunming Bureau of the State Railway introduced himself, and the operation time of the China-Laos railway "Lancang-Mekong Express line" international cargo train from Kunming to Vientiane was stable at about 26 hours, which was favored by enterprises. Since the opening of the China-Laos Railway, the railway authorities have actively explored a series of innovative "Lancang-Mekong Express" train brands such as the "Shanghai-Yunnan · Lancang-Mekong Line" and "China-Laos + China-Europe Railway". The exchange rate of the train has reached 100%, and the railway has made every effort to build a safe and efficient transport service network connecting the interior and the outside, spreading to the surrounding areas, and providing two-way mutual benefits.
Far to the north, Inner Mongolia has also increased its ties with countries that jointly build the "Belt and Road" through railways.
On June 14, a China-Europe train loaded with household appliances such as air conditioners, water heaters and refrigerators departed from Jinhot Railway logistics Park, the first such train this year in Bayannur, Inner Mongolia. Since the launch of the first China-Europe train in Bayannur on January 12, 2022, 43 trains have been regularly operated, and a large number of high-quality agricultural and livestock products from the Hetau region have been exported to Europe through the China-Europe train.
In order to better play the role of China-Europe railway services, railway authorities continue to improve the transport capacity of passageways and the loading capacity of key ports, expand the scale of China-Europe railway services with full timetables, realize the regular operation of China-Europe railway services across the Caspian Sea, strengthen the monitoring and control of the entire operation of railway services and strengthen the safety guarantee, and the cross-border cargo transport has shown a trend of increasing quantity and quality.
Source: | Economic Daily News
Editing by | Hao Zhang
Review | Li Zhao