Fifty-six dollars for ten pounds of twig from guangdong, but 80 cents for delivery to beijing
The fruit is less expensive than the freight, and how can the price of the twig be reversed with the cost of the delivery
In order to reduce freight costs, it was sent by a group of government departments and courier enterprises “negotiating” and express carriers introduced a “high value” programme
This newspaper (journalist yang chae-kyu) offers a retail price of $500, but from guangdong to beijing it costs more than 80 freight charges. In recent days, concerns have been raised about the high cost of freight charges for gills. On 29 june, a number of interviews with workers' daily journalists learned that there was a “negotiation” between the branches of the industry and the courier enterprise, which allowed the farmers to obtain freight discounts through group deliveries, thereby reducing freight costs; and a “high-price” programme, which introduced a “ straight-out-of-production + intensive transport” model, which significantly reduced logistics costs and partially covered the cost of packaging, making it more cost-effective for the farmers and consumers to buy the branches。
Why is it so expensive? Zhao xiaomin, an expert in the express delivery industry, told the reporters that after the pick-up of the twig, “a change in color, a change in taste, a change in taste, and a change in all three days”, it was necessary to transport the entire cold chain to ensure quality. The costs of cold-chain transport per se are two to three times higher than those of normal logistics, together with the costs of packs such as ice bags, incubators, and “software fees”, which make the overall cost of transportation of gills more expensive。
Zhao xiaomin indicated that this year the twig is a year of abundance and relatively cheap prices have led to a more obvious problem than in previous years with the price of twig fresh fruit and the inverting of freight for express delivery。
The price of gills and the inverted freight of couriers have a significant impact on the marketing of fruit farmers. In order to “cut down” freight charges, the relevant government departments and express carriers are also taking active measures. “accordingly, the express delivery enterprise will grant a certain amount of concessions to customers with large orders, such as an enterprise that provides for a maximum of 60% discount on freight charges of $500,000 per month.” the relevant officials of the office of market information and education of the agricultural and rural department of the city of guangzhou explained that they had taken the initiative of consulting with major logistics enterprises to resolve the problem, in response to the high cost of freight generally reflected by small and medium-sized fruit farmers。
The pricing of logistics enterprises is regulated by market patterns and it is difficult to give additional advantages to a single area. To this end, the agricultural and rural development directorate of the city has repeatedly “negotiated” with express carriers about 10 times and, subject to the rules, has come up with new ideas - small and medium-sized fruit farmers' orders are small and scattered, and if they are sent to one of the groups, they receive a corresponding freight discount on a certain scale。
Shun fong express indicated that, in order to reduce the logistics costs for fruit farmers and traders, he had established a service preference policy for “bulk” small households, close to large clients, with an estimated investment of over $96 million. In addition, sun-fung has built a whole chain of services through a two-wheel drive of “logistics preferences plus instantaneous distribution”。
On the other hand, express explores a “high value” option. The head of the xinxiang creek xinjiang net point told journalists that through fine-tuning cost controls, the net had reduced the price of the twigs to 50 per cent of the average market price: first, the site had to bear the cost of packaging materials to provide farmers with consumables such as foam boxes, ice bags, etc.; second, the transport route had been optimized to match the best routes according to the intelligence of the destination; and third, the “line-to-field” model had been adopted, with a car carrying it directly to the place of production to collect and reduce the middle link。
“the model will be extended to more agricultural production areas in the future and it is expected to help farmers reduce logistics costs by more than $1 million in the course of the year. "the head of the express delivery value-added service says。
