Shanghai transportation industry carries out multimodal transport and deep integration to boost "one belt and one road".

People's Online Shanghai, Feb. 28 (Reporter Shen Wenmin) Today, Shanghai Railway Administration, in conjunction with more than 150 large enterprises and institutions in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta, such as production and manufacturing, freight forwarding logistics, colleges and universities, scientific research institutions, highways and ports, takes the lead in setting up the Shanghai Transportation Industry Association Multimodal Transport Branch to further accelerate the development of the deep integration of Shanghai Multimodal Transport. China's first regional and first railway system-led multi-modal joint operation industry association.

It is reported that the multi-modal transport branch of Shanghai Transport Industry Association takes "based in Shanghai, serve the Yangtze River Delta" as its purpose, takes development orientation, industry self-discipline, response to demands and solving hot and difficult points as its basic starting point, and carries out its work in the special business scope of joint transport among various means of transport in the transport industry.

Multimodal Transport Branch mainly assists the government and industry management departments to participate in the formulation of industry planning, industry standards and technical standards, research, standardize and improve the evaluation and application of multimodal transport technology and projects in the industry; accepts the Commission of government departments, organizes the declaration and acceptance of multimodal transport projects; gathers platform forces to play a bridge. Link role, organize and carry out key research activities suitable for multimodal transport projects, actively promote new technologies and equipment, and promote the development of multimodal transport industry.

Railway transportation is the basic industry of the national economy and plays a basic and leading role in the national multimodal transport system. In recent years, with the deepening reform of railway freight transport organization, the role of railway logistics base in multi-modal transport network, node and platform is becoming more and more obvious, and it is becoming an important node of multi-modal transport. As a leading organization of multimodal transport branch, Shanghai Railway Administration will strengthen the cooperation between railway logistics base and other modes of transportation, give full play to their respective comparative advantages, and jointly promote the development of multimodal transport in Shanghai and Yangtze River Delta with railway as the core.

According to the relevant personages of Shanghai Railway Administration, the Bureau focuses on planning and layout according to the "three circles and one heart" of railway logistics bases, logistics parks and industrial zones, linking up local governments, enterprises and railways to promote investment and construction, improving railway lines into ports, enterprises and parks to achieve "three links" and improving the "three functions" of foundation, value-added and supporting according to market demand. "We will optimize the design of" three products ", which are container driven, rail and international multimodal transport. We will explore the three major problems, such as the settlement of one vote system, the last mile and the elimination of the last centimeter. With the support of central Europe and Central Asia class brands, we will focus on building an international channel for the development of" one belt and one road "around the transport corridor, Trade Corridor and logistics corridor. 。

Multimodal transport is an effective link between two or more modes of transport, providing integrated cargo transport services throughout the organization. It has the characteristics of long industrial chain, high resource utilization and good comprehensive benefits. However, at present, the development level of multimodal transport in China is relatively low, and the scale of transport volume only accounts for 2.9% of the total freight volume of the whole society. As a result, the cost of transshipment of goods in China accounts for about 30% of the total logistics cost. Enterprises generally regard expanding multimodal transport business as the next "blue sea" for the logistics industry to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

In order to further accelerate the development of multimodal transport and build an efficient and smooth multimodal transport system, the Ministry of Transport and other 18 departments recently jointly issued the Notice on Further Encouraging the Development of Multimodal Transport, which upgraded the development of multimodal transport to a national level institutional arrangement, and issued standards such as "Terminology for Multimodal Transport of Goods" and "Identification of Multimodal Transport Units". Standardized technical support will be provided to promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement of logistics, promote economic leap to high-end level, foster new advantages of international and domestic economic cooperation and competition, and strive to achieve a 1.5-fold increase in the volume of Multimodal Freight Transport in 2020 over that in 2015.