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at present, many places have taken the opportunity of large-scale equipment renewal to accelerate the pace of intelligent and green upgrading in the logistics field. recently, many provinces such as jiangxi, heilongjiang, guizhou, gansu, and sichuan have formulated and issued large-scale equipment renewal action plans in the transportation field. jiangxi proposed to promote the orderly operation of new energy trucks, and strive to add more than 400 new energy medium and heavy trucks by 2027; guizhou proposed that by 2028, intelligent security inspection equipment for mail and express delivery will be widely promoted and used, and security inspection equipment in the delivery field will be intelligent.

some urban areas such as nantong, jiangsu and qingyang district, chengdu, sichuan province have also proposed to carry out large-scale equipment updates in port logistics and low-altitude economy in light of local conditions. nantong will encourage the application of new energy and clean energy and other port operation machinery and vehicles in the port, promote the replacement of port operation machinery and equipment such as cranes, horizontal transport vehicles, ship loaders, and ship unloaders, and promote the greening, low-carbonization, and intelligence of large-scale port equipment. qingyang district, chengdu proposed to promote the extension and application of logistics and distribution services such as medical care and express delivery, accelerate the creation of urban road property inspections, construction waste disposal site evidence collection, environmental monitoring and other scenarios, and by 2027, create a drone delivery scenario for medical supplies between hospitals.

under the guidance of policies, logistics and express delivery companies have been taking continuous actions this year, and the updating of logistics facilities and equipment has been accelerated.

according to zto data, more than 300 first-line express delivery outlets have updated their automated sorting equipment this year. in the first half of this year, yto express has also piloted automated sorting lines at its distribution centers in hangzhou xiaoshan, zhejiang and zhengzhou, henan, and strived to create a "new quality productivity" in the express delivery industry starting from the basic network. guangxi logistics group's guigang storage and transportation park plans to invest in intelligent unloading equipment for bagged materials in the next two years, replacing manual stacking with intelligent unloading equipment to improve work efficiency, reduce labor costs, and enhance the logistics service level of the park.

this year, unmanned express delivery vehicles have become a hot commodity that logistics and express delivery companies are vying to purchase. on july 3, the unmanned express delivery vehicle manufacturer jiushi intelligent released a new model, with sales reaching 5,290 vehicles on the same day. jiushi intelligent's current annual production capacity is 2,100 vehicles, which means that under the current production capacity, the company's production capacity for the next two years has been fully booked.

in the next three to five years, the logistics industry will have more than 200,000 unmanned delivery vehicles deployed. li qiang, cto (chief technology officer) of cainiao group, said in an interview that as relevant policies are gradually relaxed, more and more people are seeing the role of unmanned vehicles in meeting the needs of the express delivery industry and improving efficiency.

large-scale equipment upgrades of logistics facilities and equipment will be conducive to expanding investment, improving infrastructure, promoting industrial upgrading, and also conducive to energy conservation, carbon reduction and reducing logistics costs.

during this year's "618" period, the operation center of zto express's songyang branch in zhejiang was in order. parcels flowed quickly on the sorting line and fell accurately into the bag after being calculated by the system - the branch's sorting equipment had just been fully updated.

in recent years, the volume of express mail in and out of songyang zhongtong has been increasing. in the first half of this year, the total volume of express mail in and out of songyang increased by 30% year-on-year. the original equipment could only handle inbound express mail, but not outbound express mail, which affected the sorting efficiency. this gave wang tiankai, the person in charge of songyang zhongtong, the idea of ​​updating the sorting equipment.

in april this year, a set of intelligent sorting equipment worth 1.3 million yuan replaced the original equipment. pan shuangping, the administrative personnel director of songyang zto express, said that in the past, 15 sorters were required to manually sort on both sides of the 40-meter-long conveyor belt, and only 5,000 express parcels could be sorted per hour. after the equipment was updated, the conveyor belt with a total length of more than 80 meters does not require human assistance, and the number of parcels sorted per hour reached 12,000, with an efficiency increase of 140% and improved accuracy.

regarding the cost issue, wang tiankai believes that the investment is worth it. according to his calculations, since the equipment was put into operation, the personnel cost has been greatly reduced, and the cost per express delivery is about 0.05 yuan. regarding the "promoting the iteration of complete sets of intelligent sorting equipment" proposed in the "plan", wang tiankai said that compared with the update of a single piece, although the cost of the complete set iteration is higher, it will be smoother to use and the probability of problems will be lower, so the overall cost performance will be higher.

not only in the field of sorting equipment updates, logistics hubs have also achieved improved sorting efficiency through the intelligent transformation of logistics parks.

as the first logistics company in yunnan to carry out 5g scene applications, yunnan tengjin logistics co., ltd. (tengjin logistics for short) selected a normal temperature warehouse covering an area of ​​12,000 square meters for renovation, adopted the construction mode of 5g hybrid private network, and carried out cooperative construction and operation of 5g smart park. according to reports, the intelligent sorting warehouse makes full use of the transmission characteristics of 5g large connection, high bandwidth, and low latency, and adopts a completely unmanned operation mode, which can easily meet the orderly operation of 90 agv storage robots and automated sorting routes. the sorting efficiency of the entire system is 6 times that of manual labor, and the distribution efficiency is 13 times that of manual labor.

precisely because of the benefits of intelligent upgrading, this year and next year, tengjin logistics has planned to build the tengjun international land port park upgrading and reconstruction project, the main construction content of which is to purchase cold chain emergency equipment, station operation equipment, warehousing operation equipment, logistics (cold chain) transportation vehicles, special operation vehicles, warehousing and logistics facility upgrades, digital upgrades and transformations, etc. "the project has completed the preliminary work and completed an investment of 50 million yuan." ms. ma, investment director of tengjin logistics investment and financing management center, introduced.

during the interview, the reporter found that although large-scale equipment upgrades have an obvious effect on reducing logistics costs and improving logistics operation efficiency, the cost issue still plagues many small and medium-sized logistics companies because equipment upgrades require a lot of money.

tengjin logistics' intelligent sorting warehouse. photo provided by zhou han

yang yong, director of the research office of the logistics research center of the scientific research institute of the ministry of transport, said that although the current road logistics freight rates have rebounded due to seasonal factors, the overall logistics capacity is still in a situation of oversupply. there may be a small fluctuation and correction in the future, and the freight rate level will remain low. enterprises and individual operators lack the internal motivation to actively update.

it is understood that in terms of scrapping and updating old operating trucks, on july 30, the ministry of transport and the ministry of finance jointly issued the "notice on the implementation of scrapping and renewal of old operating trucks", which clarified the scope of subsidies, subsidy standards and implementation period. in the field of replacing old postal and express equipment and updating and renovating logistics facilities and equipment, the relevant industry management departments have not yet issued relevant subsidy standards, and need to speed up the introduction of supporting policies.

"logistics facilities and equipment are highly non-standardized, and relevant management departments need to implement policies in a classified manner. for standardized equipment such as forklifts and pallets, relevant equipment subsidy policies similar to the scrapping and renewal of old operating trucks can be introduced; for non-standard equipment such as logistics operating systems and railway reloading facilities, it is recommended that relevant management departments can formulate corresponding support policies according to the investment amount of the overall project." wang jixiang, vice president of the china warehousing and distribution association, said that in terms of the replacement of old postal and express equipment, the depreciation cycle of sorting equipment is about 10 years. it is less than 10 years away from the large-scale purchase of sorting equipment by the express industry, so it has not reached the stage of large-scale elimination. relevant support policies should also focus on supporting the renewal needs of equipment in the sinking market such as county-level sorting centers. in terms of the renewal and transformation of logistics facilities and equipment, relevant support policies should focus on guiding relevant logistics companies to carry out intelligent and smart upgrades of logistics automation equipment, and promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the logistics field through logistics networks and artificial intelligence technologies.

"in short, relevant management departments should fully consider the actual needs of the industry when formulating support policies, and provide renewal and transformation support to enterprises with business needs, transformation needs, and good market prospects." wang jixiang suggested that relevant management departments should also increase supervision of support funds to prevent some enterprises from maliciously defrauding national subsidies and causing the loss of state-owned assets.

author丨reporter liu yihang