Courier business volume continued high growth diversified development and distribution terminal

2016 China International Express Industry Expo will be held in Shanghai Everbright International Convention and Exhibition Center on August 29. The exhibition covers express delivery product picking system, intelligent courier cabinets, storage facilities, express mail sorting information systems, intelligent recognition and other fields, will showcase the world's latest technology and services from digital marketing to parcel sorting and delivery of the last kilometer innovative network services to further boost the development of China's express delivery industry.

State Post Bureau statistics show that last year China's express delivery industry completed business volume 20.6 billion, an increase of 48%, the maximum daily processing capacity of more than 160 million; courier business income of 276 billion yuan, an increase of 35%. China's express delivery business volume this year is still maintained rapid growth. From January to June, China's express delivery business volume totaled 13.25 billion, up 56.7%; business revenue totaled 171.46 billion yuan, an increase of 43.4%. Moreover, direct postal service in rural areas in China reached 94%, the township outlets courier service coverage to 70%. Geographically, the eastern part of the courier industry is better, its share of revenue accounted for 81.1%; the proportion of income in the central and western regions, respectively, 10.8% and 8.1%.

With the continued growth of China's express delivery business volume, the last kilometer delivery issues highlighted. Currently, the flow of the entire delivery process to benefit from the rapid development of electronic business platform, the Express warehousing and transport has been successfully achieved some machines replac the manual, through the optimization of processes, efficiency greatly improved. But the last kilometer express delivery still mainly manual, it is difficult to solve the problem through process efficiency improvements and other means. The last kilometer of the major express delivery of current alternatives including express from the mentioned point, the smart courier distribution cabinets and UAVs.

Express from the mentioned point is relatively complete stage one kind of distribution methods, the short term is expected to become mainstream, occupy a larger market share. Express since reminded including businessmen joined and enterprises to set up two programs. Among them, the business community to join the majority of convenience stores established by joining the way; and those funded mainly by enterprises, since the establishment of reminding in densely populated areas. In addition, shipments of smart box via the Internet, intelligent recognition technology, can achieve uninterrupted work, through intelligent user from mentioning cabinet without contact with the courier, express mail to send and receive time freedom to organize, express delivery staff can avoid long waits and secondary distribution, so as to effectively enhance the efficiency of delivery is the most effective in the future end express distribution alternatives. By the end of last year, China's major cities to install smart box shipments more than 60,000 groups, express delivery of more than 200 million.

In addition, the UAV is mainly used for the delivery and distribution terminal in rural and other remote areas, saves time and distribution costs. Currently, many large foreign logistics companies and electricity suppliers have begun shipping the layout of the UAV field. Among them, Amazon launched last year to meet the end of the courier drone in most parts distribution requirements. In January this year, Google in the United States to apply for UAV "shipping container" patent, it is designed to place the parcel from "air delivery device" Remove and place the security. From a domestic perspective, Jingdong, SF and other shipping companies have also layout UAV field. The future of China express delivery end of the diversified development trend is expected to further enhance the overall efficiency of China's express delivery services.