Entering the Tide of Shipping Technology: Changes and Unchanges in Digital Upgrading | Shipping Industry

     On December 30,2021,the"Top 100 Chinese People Most Concerned by the Shipping Industry in 2021"list(referred to as the Shipping 100 List)jointly selected by China Transportation News and the Shipping Industry Network was officially released.Recently,China Communications News and the Shipping Industry Network interviewed some guests on the Shipping 100 List,focusing on the positive contributions made by the shipping industry to the global fight against the epidemic,promoting trade recovery,and ensuring the smooth supply chain of the industry chain.

     In 2022,the epidemic combined with geopolitical factors has had a sustained impact on the shipping market.Digitalization and intelligence are still the consensus in the upstream and downstream of the port and shipping logistics supply chain.How to leverage the collaborative benefits of digital platforms and enhance the resilience of logistics supply chains has been a continuous effort in the industry,with shipping technology companies playing an important role.This exclusive interview on the Shipping Top 100 list will approach the trend of shipping technology and reveal the ways to deeply cultivate shipping under the new development pattern.

     In the past five years,the industry has begun to view Digital transformation from a positive perspective.The digital freight forwarding industry is now flourishing,and the key driving factor is to keep up with market trends.The sudden COVID-19 has brought a huge impact on the shipping industry and provided a major opportunity for the integration of the industry with new technologies such as 5G,big data and artificial intelligence.Keeping up with the market and continuously striving to address the current industry pain points and difficulties,promoting digitization has become a consensus among shipping technology companies.

    In the view of platypus,an intelligent service provider for container transportation,the feasibility of market acceptance and economy determines the cost and feasibility of digital promotion.Duckbill,with its experience in digital container transportation management,further improves its online level in epidemic prevention management,customer marketing and service,and internal collaboration within the enterprise,in order to achieve better customer service levels.

    Where to transport is paying attention to relevant technologies,which not only enables automatic identification and online sending of important documents in the international freight forwarding business process,but also enables automatic verification and configuration of business rules for different companies.At present,the document recognition function can cover over 90%of the market documents,with high recognition accuracy and effectively improving the efficiency of enterprise related work by more than twice.The intelligent shipping schedule prediction product launched by it can help customers understand the operation status of the target ship in advance,make more accurate decisions,and effectively reduce additional losses such as over container fees and demurrage fees caused by congestion and delay through logistics data and prediction information in various stages.

    Flexport achieves visualization of SKUs and order management systems through order management systems,improving the visibility of end-to-end inventory in the supply chain and reducing operational costs by approximately 15-30%for customers;The digital and efficient customs clearance services provided by it promote the integrity of customs classification through continuous data collection,achieving automatic classification of US import customs clearance.

    Since the outbreak of the epidemic,trade participants have become increasingly aware of the importance of improving the digital level of supply chains by providing diverse and flexible solutions to cope with complex environments.Improving the digital level of global trade remains one of the important trends this year.Especially for e-commerce industries with high inventory and market sensitivity,except for startups