Study On The Development Of The Third Party Logistics Of Shipping Enterprises In China

Demand and supply are two crucial factors to everything's development. Shipping Enterprise's development is following the above regulation. It becomes a certain tendency for Shipping Enterprises to offer Third Party Logistics services to meet the market's requirement and the purpose of self-developing.Based on the study of Third Party Logistics' present and future prospects in China, this paper analyses the necessarily and possibility for Shipping Enterprises to provide Third Party Logistics services, then I offer several advices and an operation model on how to realize the target. Many problems are studied in this paper for reference for policy formulation in government and shipping industriesThe background and significance of the topic selection are illustrated in preface (chapter 1); in chapter 2 I introduce the concise concept of Third Party Logistics. The comparative analysis of Chinese shipping enterprises as a Third Party Logistics provider and the actual situation of international shipping line as a Third Party Logistics provider is made in chapter 3; In chapter 4, Chinese TPL developing present and future prospects ;In chapter 5, I make a detailed analysis on how to make the target come true, point out that that in order to meet the target, Shipping Enterprises should follow the five principles: First, adopt information management system. Second, improve personal qualities of whole personnel. Third, offer customer-oriented services. Forth, provide multi-functional services. At last, improve the company's core competitive ability; in chapter 6,1 focus on the study of practical procedure for shipping enterprises to offer Third Party Logistics services.As Third Party Logistics is a new industry in China, although many shipping enterprises are eager to take part hi the Third Party Logistics group, it is not quite easy get the success. Close cooperation should be kept between academic researchpeople and related industry to make erTort to do something. This paper may have some reference for policy formulation in shipping enterprises.