On May 8, a railway freight train loaded with 750 tons of bulk cement departed from the special line of Yongan Jianfu Cement Co., Ltd. at Yongan Kengbian Station in Fujian Province and arrived at the front station via Yingxia Railway. It adopts the mode of "railway-highway" intermodal transport without changing boxes to reach Xiamen Lute Building Material Mixing Station. This marks the opening of a new mode of "railway tank container through" for bulk cement transportation in Fujian Province, eliminating intermediate warehousing links, and becoming a typical case of upgrading the supply chain in the infrastructure industry. Under the
traditional railway transportation mode, bulk cement needs to be transported through "factory-transfer warehouse-construction site", which not only has a long cycle and high cost, but also causes dust pollution and dampness of cement due to the midway loading and unloading links. The "railway tank container through" mode uses the special tank container for railway to realize the closed loop of production, transportation and marketing of bulk cement. The cement is directly filled into the container in the factory, and directly reaches the construction site through railway transportation or rail-road intermodal transport. It is quickly unloaded into the warehouse through the pneumatic device, and there is no need to open the container for loading and unloading. "This is the first" door-to-door "direct transportation project of bulk cement railway tank containers in Fujian Province, which is expected to shorten the time by one week and reduce the comprehensive transportation cost by about 5 yuan per ton compared with the traditional railway transportation mode." Wei Zheng, manager of Yongan Business Department of Fuzhou Railway Logistics Center, China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group Co., Ltd.
In response to the demand of Yongan Jianfu Cement Co., Ltd. for market development, Nantie Logistics Department and Fuzhou Railway Logistics Center have set up a special marketing team to design a "special container" scheme in conjunction with China Railway Container Nanchang Branch, providing a full chain of services from business acceptance to packing, transportation and unloading.
"In the past, each ton of cement transported by railway had to bear additional costs such as transit fees and storage fees, but now'one box to the end 'has eliminated the intermediate links." Lu Jiasen, deputy general manager of Yongan Jianfu Cement Co., Ltd., made a calculation: a 45-car railway freight train can carry 2,250 tons of cement. If it is transported by car, if one car can carry 35 tons of cement, it is equivalent to driving 65 cars at the same time. "Railway tank container through" mode reduces the logistics cost of enterprises by about 10%, and the unloading efficiency of single container is about 30% higher than that of the whole automobile transportation. Based on the annual transportation volume of 200000 tons, it can directly save the transportation cost of enterprises by more than 1 million yuan per year.
"What is more gratifying is that the tank box has excellent sealing performance and eliminates the problem of dust pollution in traditional transportation." Lugasen said that the "railway tank container through" mode can reduce the pressure of environmental protection and enterprise logistics costs at the same time, as a new mode of transportation that can be replicated and promoted, providing strong support for Fujian cement sales to coastal cities.
The innovation of "railway tank container through" mode not only provides a new choice for Fujian building materials logistics to reduce costs and increase efficiency, but also demonstrates the determination of railway departments to transform from "transport service providers" to "supply chain integrators". With the steady progress of the national "double carbon" goal, green, efficient and low-cost railway logistics will become an important support for the high-quality development of Fujian's infrastructure industry.
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