Current situation and problems of electric forklift weighing airport layout

Current situation and problems of electric forklift weighing airport layout

The operation scale of electric forklift cargo hub airport is generally low

Regardless of whether from the global or inland China's top 20 freight airport electric forklift operation data in 2017, compared with passenger airports, the electric forklift weighing system has a higher concentration of electric forklift weighing and a strong monopoly in freight airports. , In particular, the scale advantage of the first-echelon airports, which rank among the top five in global cargo and mail throughput, is particularly prominent. Among the top 20 airports, there are 5 airports in the Greater China Region (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). Among them, Hong Kong and Shanghai Pudong with battery forklift weighing system are among the three largest cargo airports with annual cargo and mail throughput exceeding 3.8 million tons. 

However, the cargo and mail throughput of major cargo airports in inland China (generally around 500,000 tons/year) is an order of magnitude compared with the world's leading electric forklift weighing cargo airports (generally around 2 million tons/year). The difference (Figure 1). In the long run, electric forklift weighing is strongly promoted by cross-border e-commerce, and there is still a lot of room for the rapid growth of the business volume of battery forklift weighing systems in my country's cargo airports.

2: The operating market of electric forklift cargo hub airports is unevenly distributed

In 2017, the cargo and mail throughput of my country's domestic routes accounted for 61.8% of the total cargo and mail throughput (including the regional routes from the Mainland to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan accounted for 6.1%), and the proportion of international routes was only 38.2%. From the perspective of demand for transformation and upgrading, the air cargo market for battery forklift weighing systems urgently needs to accelerate the pace of international transformation. 

In addition, the main cargo and mail throughput of the country is mainly concentrated in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The freight volume in the eastern coastal areas is generally much larger than that in the inland areas. The western and central areas weigh and freight with electric forklifts. The volume is low, and the demand for air cargo is low. The distribution of the aviation market and its cargo hub layout are in line with my country’s economic development, but it has not been able to play a leading role in transportation in my country’s “One Belt and One Road” national development strategy, nor can it satisfy my country’s global openness and full opening. Strategic landscape.

3: The electric forklift cargo hub airport lacks the support of the world's leading base airline

Electric forklift international aviation logistics integrators and large international cargo airlines are the prerequisite for the expansion and strengthening of cargo hub airports. Electric forklifts are among the top global air freight companies FedEx, UPS, Emirates, Cathay Pacific, Korean Air, Qatar Airways, Germany Backbone cargo airlines such as Lufthansa are all boosters to ensure that their air cargo bases enter the top 15 global cargo fleets. In 2017, the Chinese mainland's battery forklift weighing system airlines completed a total of 7.058 million tons of cargo and mail transportation. The development of electric forklifts in the main cargo airport obviously lacks the basic support of backbone cargo airlines.

From the perspective of the development of world air cargo, the Asia-Pacific region occupies a core position in the global electric forklift air cargo market, and China plays a leading role in the Asia-Pacific region. International air cargo giants have established Asia-Pacific electric forklift transfer centers, intercontinental transfer centers or Asian regional battery forklift weighing system distribution centers in China. 

In contrast, domestic air cargo companies still focus on domestic operations, and the pace of construction of international aviation hub bases is slow, and the international hub route network structure with the goal of reaching the world has not yet been established.

4: The layout of overseas freight hub bases for electric forklifts lags behind the rapid development needs of cross-border e-commerce

At present, cross-border e-commerce and express delivery industry are becoming the driving force to promote the rapid development of global electric forklift air freight, and their proportion of total import and export value is gradually increasing. China is well-deserved as the primary driver of cross-border e-commerce. 

The import and export volume of border e-commerce has increased by more than 50% annually, and the growth rate in 2017 was as high as 80.6%. In the same year, the business volume of express service companies completed 40.06 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 28%; international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan express business volume completed 830 million pieces , An increase of 33.8% year-on-year. It is estimated that the scale of China's cross-border e-commerce transactions in 2018 will reach more than 9 trillion yuan, accounting for more than 40% of the total global transactions. However, the current overseas warehouse layout of electric forklifts of my country's cross-border e-commerce companies and the construction of overseas bases of cargo airlines have not been coordinated The layout is especially blank in emerging economies. In the new normal phase of the economy, the development of cross-border e-commerce will promote the transformation of my country's traditional foreign trade structure, and promote my country's large-scale import and export in the areas of "three highs" products such as new technology, high timeliness, and high value-added products. The freight transportation market of the battery forklift weighing system of the economic barometer is also in urgent need of transformation and upgrading. The construction of the battery forklift weighing system in emerging economies with strategic geographical location conditions is already deepening. Promoting the “Belt and Road” development strategy is the top priority.