Abilities Analysis And Suggestions On Domestic Large International Transportation Companies' Promoting Their Logistics Service Level

In recent years, the competition in logistics market becomes even fierce, and some new concepts of modern logistics have been put forward. It becomes a general tendency for the international transportation company of China to transform from traditional logistics entity into modern logistics enterprise.Based on theoretic analysis, a layer-based business model of logistics service is provided in this dissertation, and the abilities that logistics service providers on various level should have are discussed in detail. Taking threedomestic large international transportation companies—China oceanshipping company, China shipping, and China National Foreign Trade Transportation Joint Stock limited Company (respectively abbreviated as COSCO, CS, and Sinotrans) for example, the dissertation summarizes the abilities that domestic large international transportation companies currently have and compares them with that of advanced foreign logistics companies. Suggestions on domestic large international transportation companies' promoting their logistics service level are provided in the end of this dissertation.The dissertation consists of eight chapters. Chapter 1 is introduction. Chapter 2 introduces the development of logistics and provides a layer model of logistics services. Chapter 3 discusses the abilities that logistics service provider on specific level should have, and provides a layer-based business model of logistics. Chapter 4 provides an analysis of logistics development situation in domestic large international transportation companies and the problems they encounter. The necessity of enhancing domestic large international transportation companies' logistics service level and obstacles they face during the process are also explained in detail in Chapter 4. Logistics service abilities of domestic large transportation companies are discussed in Chapter 5, taking COSCO, CS, and Sinotrans for example. Chapter 6 explains the service abilities of advanced foreign logistics companies such as UPS. Based on the conclusion of theoretic analysis, Chapter 7 compares thelogistics service abilities of domestic large international transportation companies with that of advanced foreign logistics companies, and then provides the suggestions on how domestic large international transportation companies promote their logistics service level. Chapter 8 is the conclusion.