As follows:
Railway logistics is produced with the rapid development of modern logistics industry at home and abroad, the continuous adjustment of railway productivity layout and the continuous release of transportation capacity. Based on railway freight stations and other resources, it integrates modern logistics and supply chain management and service concepts to provide customers with all-round and integrated modern logistics service space based on railway transportation.
It can not only be used as a place for railways to provide logistics services, but also as a public logistics base to attract related logistics enterprises to settle in and carry out logistics services. Railway logistics generally has the characteristics of moderate advance, complete functions, strong ability, advanced equipment and wide radiation. Railway logistics is a collection of points and lines relying on railways.
It is a process of planning, implementing and controlling the flow of goods from the supply place to the receiving place by giving full play to the network economic characteristics of infrastructure and production and operation, connecting the supply subject and the demand subject, and organically combining the functions of transportation, storage, loading and unloading, handling, packaging, distribution processing, distribution and information processing according to the allocation and optimization conditions of railway resources.
Compared with modern logistics enterprises, the railway freight forwarding industry still has the following gaps.
First, modern logistics enterprises generally provide comprehensive services for users, while railway transport agencies only provide railway transport agency services. It is difficult for railway transportation agencies to compete with modern logistics enterprises in terms of service scope and service quality.
Second, the general large-scale modern logistics enterprises have collection and distribution nodes all over the world, and they can freely choose the mode of transportation, while the mode of transportation of railway transportation agents is relatively simple and obviously inflexible in operation.
Third, modern logistics enterprises have established a fully functional and social-oriented e-commerce network, which has realized the rapid transmission of all kinds of information and efficient and accurate information activities, while railway transportation agency enterprises are far from meeting the needs in information construction.