Rising oil prices, express delivery companies survive difficult

Since starting at 0:00 on the on April 14, domestic, 90 and 0 # diesel fuel the national average retail price increased by 0.24 yuan per liter and 0.27 yuan. Thus, the domestic retail prices of gasoline and diesel throughout the record highest in history.
One side is the price of oil pressing harder and harder, one side is the intense competition for customers, Helpless, logistics enterprises have chosen the fluctuation in oil prices not rising freight teeth stiffness.
The logistics are in dilemma hope to establish business side of the linkage mechanism freight prices, while they clearly know that this only a temporary solution, if the vicious competition in the industry led to chaos does not change, even if the linkage mechanism introduced, will be reduced to scrap of paper.
Hope that authorities shot chaos, but also a standard competitive environment industry into a logistics business aspirations.
Life difficult
"Calculated in accordance with 100 kilometers, less than 1% impact on profits." Logistics is the average profit margin of between 3% -5%, although the impact of oil price increases are not significant, but the cumulative impact of several price adjustment very large, the enterprise has to bear the limit, "oil prices up again two or three cents, the freight charges must be raised."
In 2009, the Chinese government seven times to adjust the prices of refined oil, of which 5 times the price up. "Oil prices have accounted for more than 60% of all costs, logistics digest the oil price hike has been getting smaller and smaller room."
"Oil prices continue to rise, but shipping costs are not adjusted." The oil price rise, the industry did not raise the basic freight business, because competition is fierce, the slightest adjustment of freight rates is likely to lose a lot of customers, so no one dared first adjust the price, "basically lose money in doing so many companies."
Chaos-based
In fact, although the shipping price is the market, but also set a fuel surcharge to regulate the relationship between oil prices and freight. In addition, the logistics business with a number of international giants have also set their own freight price linkage mechanism.
For example, DHL, TNT is based on the price index used in the fuel surcharge rate calculation. According to changes in international oil prices, monthly fuel surcharge rate adjustments, and announced the beginning of the month in the monthly fuel surcharge rate. Increases in oil prices will not immediately adjust the fuel surcharge. To DHL, for example, the fuel surcharge and Rotterdam (ARA) the average monthly spot jet fuel price linked with changes in oil prices from low to high, the lowest fuel surcharge of 0%, maximum 32%, adjusted monthly .
So, with the market price of the shipping companies have fuel surcharges? Why can implement their international logistics giant linkage mechanism? Our local logistics enterprises have to undergo the torment of a dilemma?
"You quit it was dry." The fundamental reason is not standard industry lead to vicious competition, even if the linkage mechanism introduced, most enterprises are still not to say price increases, the linkage mechanism will become a decoration.
As the industry with low barriers to entry, more than ten million yuan will be able to start the operation, and businessmen organized as long as the business sector, business license, and then pieces of evidence to the transport control department for the record, there are one or two simple office space, a table, a telephone, on the formation of a courier company, and some did not even business license.
"Those companies operating without the tax do not have to pay ah." It is these companies do not standardize their operations across the entire industry into a vicious little or operating at a loss competition.
Faced with this chaotic phase, the corresponding supervision and management failed to keep up, although the logistics associations, but it is the nature of social organizations, it is difficult to play in the industry, the role of bridge and link. Highway Authority, the transport tube station and other functional departments, but also with the opening of the market weakening of the industrial management of the Department need to go through the road check operation permit has not been strictly enforced, therefore, did not play the restraint and supervision of enterprises effect.
"To solve the problem the industry is the most fundamental is the standard market, and increase barriers to entry." Regulated competition, subject to market regulation functions to be re-worked, "Meanwhile, enterprises must pay attention to the cultivation of long-term competitiveness, big and stronger. "