JUSDA Creates A New Channel for International Sea-Rail Transportation to Seamlessly Connect the "Maritime-Continental" Silk Road
On July 22, 2019, the first batch of high-value goods of sea-rail transport undertaken by JUSDA for an internationally renowned brand arrived at Xiamen Harbor. The goods were shipped from Jakarta Port, Indonesia on July 14. After a short transit stopover at Xiamen Harbor, they were transported from Haicang Rail Station, Xiamen to Duisburg, Germany by China-Europe Freight Block TrainIt is expected to run for 28 days, faster over 20% than the traditional single sea transportation.
The Indonesian transit goods undertaken by JUSDA are the transit goods of the new starting region (Indonesia) after the international cargo transit business by China-Europe (Xiamen) Freight Block Train was conducted from Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It is also the new service route Sea-Rail Transportation jointly developed by JUSDA and China-Europe (Xiamen) Freight Block Train.
In the past, Southeast Asian shippers could choose only two modes of transportation – by ocean shipping and air freight for sending goods to Europe, the former took long time and the latter took high cost. The new route of Sea-Rail Transportation has solved the problem well. Not only does it has shortened the transportation time and adjusted the transportation structure, but also it has greatly improved the operation efficiency of supply chain, with cost reduced by 80%, capital turnover rate increased by more than 25% and inventory turnover rate rose by more than 65% .. It has given full play to the unique advantages of JUSDA Intelligent Supply Chain Management, decreasing inventory with cost reducing and raising efficiency with quality improving of customers.
In a deeper sense, the goods’ first shipping with the new service route of Sea-Rail Transportation has provided a comprehensive solution of International Sea-Rail Transportation for the industry, and further created a new international logistics channel to seamlessly connect the "Maritime Silk Road" and the "Land Silk Road", which will strongly strengthen economic and trade exchanges among the countries along the "Belt and Road" and lay a New Economic Corridor.
Mr. Kurt Yang, the senior director of JUSDA Global Product and Purchasing Center, told the media on the scene, "This innovative service mode brings customers multiple choices. When goods are shipped from Southeast Asia to Europe, the traditional mode of transport is mainly by sea and supplemented by air. The current mode of "Sea + Rail" transportation can greatly improve the overall transit time especially to meet lead time needs of high-value goods.
Over the years, JUSDA has actively explored and innovated in the logistic channel of China-Europe Rail Transportation supply chain, and has built innovative modes of Road-Rail Transport, Rail-Rail Transport and Sea-Rail Transport with Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries as the starting points, providing customers with customized and diversified supply chain integrated solutions. The successful development of these modes is attributed to JUSDA’s strong global network resources and operation ability accumulated over the years, and its ocean shipping operation network has covered more than 2,000 international routes and more than 500 destination ports. Connecting Japan and South Korea to the north and Southeast Asia to the south, Eurasian Railway cooperates with major railway express platform companies to reach 15 countries and more than 40 cities in Europe, which has provided effective product solutions for the Supply Chain Management of many world-renowned customers.
In addition, JUSDA has a strong technological and intelligent system, which designs the optimal integrated solutions for customers through some tools such as big data and AI. For example, the Supply Chain Management Real-time Collaboration Platform that JUSDA is focus on building can connect every link of supply chain in real-time, realizing seamless link, the whole visible process, and collaborative operating. And it can provide customers with intelligent decision-making on production forecasting, inventory management, capacity fillet, etc., so as to improve aging from the source, save cost, and raise the whole management efficiency of the enterprise.
In the future, JUSDA will continue to adhere to the "Belt and Road" Initiative, continue to deepen the mode of multi-model transport, providing more efficient and diversified integrated solutions of supply chain logistics for the industry.
