"Internet + shipping": opportunities and challenges

Recently, the "Shanghai to promote the construction of an international shipping center Ordinance" began, which is China's first local regulations on the shipping center construction. The industry believes that this is the layout of the shipping industry in depth, restructuring and development of a horn. Among them, the "Internet + shipping" is considered the industry restructuring and development of the "dark horse." What are the opportunities and challenges in the industry? Through a business development experience called one hundred million sea-blue, or a glimpse of their status.

Global container "navigation"

Located in Beijing's Zhongguancun hundred million sea-blue (Beijing) Technology data ag office area, engineers are analyzing several large shipping data, providing the flow of information worldwide commodity for the financial sector.

Although fewer than 200 people, but this is located in Beijing's Zhongguancun district office, but it holds all the world's ports, routes more than 10 million real-time data of the ship's position, it is possible for the global container logistics tracking data services.

Since its establishment in 2003, billion-sea blue to do three things: shipping Big Data, the shipping business platform, shipping logistics and finance.

These three things seize key opportunities shipping industry. 90% of global trade in goods rely on ocean complete. What time mothers milk from New Zealand sea Amoy shipment departure? Next month how many tons of coal, crude oil, food will be unloaded in the port of Qingdao? The information for businesses shipping industry chain is critical, but in the past, this information is scattered, not accurate.

Meanwhile, the shipping link between the transmission of information is not timely. When the owner of the ship, often need hands to complete the multi-booking. Intermediate links, low efficiency and high cost.

After the rise of the Internet technology, the urgent need to solve the problems through new technologies. 2004, Yi navy's "The Shipping News Network" began offering AIS vessel position tracking service, 12 years has accumulated a lot of data, gathered more than 200 million users, becoming larger ship dynamic real-time queries of public service website.

In the "Data" stable and highly profitable piece of art when "heady" and, billion-navy decided to free basic data services, to create "shipping electronic business platform." In 2011, the "fast cabin network" on-line, support online booking, payment and cargo tracking.

2015, billion-sea blue in three new board listed, and completed two rounds of financing, and the two new areas continue to force: Container transport fleet management systems and shipping logistics finance.

Industry "pain points" is the opportunity for development

After years of groping, billion-sea blue find a way to strategic layout: Industry "pain point" is the business development opportunities.

2015 China logistics costs to GDP ratio of 16% in efficiency with the developed countries there is still not a small gap. 2016, the State Council forwarded "to create a favorable market environment to promote the integration of transport and logistics development plan" put forward, by 2020 the whole logistics costs to GDP ratio reduced by 2 percentage points compared with 2015.

"Our ocean freight logistics efficiency is not high mainly due to: supporting freight, fleet and other intermediaries in the overall state of small and scattered, difficult to integrate the formation of intensive advantage, resulting in low efficiency, difficult to guarantee quality of service, logistics companies do not money 'multi lose' situation. "Han Bin, president of one hundred million sea blue.

To solve this problem, we need to force three aspects: First, transparent logistics information; the second is the logistics business information; third is to meet the financial needs of logistics enterprises.

Through basic data services, the first problem can be basically resolved. In order to solve the second problem, billion-navy developed a "container fleet transportation management system (TMS)", connection shipowners, shippers, fleet, drivers and other transportation stakeholders to effectively address industry issues such as the transmission of information is not timely. Currently, the platform monthly trading volume has more than 500,000 TEUs, freight reached nearly 1 billion yuan, covering nearly 40% of domestic capacity of container trailers.

"Compared with other booking class platform, billion-sea blue is characterized by the industry supply chain management, logistics management level solutions that not only solve the water transport, the road transport industry is also integrated in, reflecting the 'cross-border' philosophy. "Shanghai international shipping Institute research director of information technology, data port and shipping large laboratory director Xu Kai said.

A third problem occurs because the source of trade as export-oriented SMEs in the traditional financial model is difficult to obtain bank financial services. One hundred million to build navy "maritime logistics platform for the Internet," according to business operations of the data, the data of its credit, the cost of providing affordable and convenient financial services.

Opportunities and challenges

Behind one hundred million to develop the navy, it is China's "Internet + shipping" usher in opportunity. Eighteen Third Plenary Session of the party proposed to accelerate the construction of maritime power. In 2014, the State Council issued "Opinions on Promoting the Healthy Development of the shipping industry", to promote the healthy development of the maritime industry rose to national strategies.

At the same time, the shipping in the chain there are lowering the efficiency of the internal demand, and the Internet is conducive to compress the intermediate links, improve efficiency.

However, challenges and opportunities. First, the global economic slowdown, the shipping market overcapacity. Relying on business entities "Internet +" want to make money is not easy.

Secondly, the "government" strongly support the need for more "commercial" development. Han Bin pointed out that many countries lack the software industry or the industry level unified standard, there are some national or industry standards and market conditions detachment. Regulatory and tax administrative examination and approval system does not match the Internet economy: for example, the Internet company does not tend to be asset-light operations team, but according to the relevant regulations, logistics enterprises to obtain licenses and road transport issue VAT invoices, we need to have the name of the transport vehicle.

Third, cross-border lack of talent reserves. Industry "ecosystem" entrepreneurial team needs to have industry, the Internet, finance, and other integrated capabilities, much in line with the requirements of talent.

" 'Internet + shipping' still in its infancy, will open up infinite possibilities." Xu Kai believes that it is in the mode and scope of business will have more possibilities, want companies through the sharing of resources and benefit-sharing, and create a healthy industry "ecosystem . "