Research On The Transformation From Freight Forwarding To The Third-party Logistics

Logistics is considered one of the basic activities, which the modern society depends on. Thus, it is compared to"the Third Source of Profit". Besides, logistics also plays an important role in the circulation process so people begin to pay more and more attention to it. As the key component in our country's pluralistic operation of logistics, freight forwarding has begun to take an essential position in the pluralistic operation of logistics.With the quick economic development in our country and with the fast increase in foreign trade, the industry of freight forwarding in our country has witnessed unprecedented development and become a burgeoning service industry. However, during its development process, there are still many urgent problems to be solved immediately. For example, it has small-scale operation and assets; it has few service functions and deficient professional working staffs; it has weak competition force in the market and weak ability in financing; its service qualities are uneven; it is lack of networks or its networks are scattered and its operational regulations are nonstandard and so forth. In the modern society, the development of the logistics industry has been greatly promoted. But after China joined WTO, many international logistics enterprises have placed large impacts on our country's logistics market, which means that freight forwarding has to face increasingly intensified competition in the market. Thus, problems concerning how to deal with the austere situations and how to seek new solutions might be put forward.The third-party logistics has sprung up throughout the world and obtained prosperous development, which could offer a new direction of development for our country's industry of freight forwarding. The revolutionary significance of the third-party logistics lies in its management on the supply chain. To be specific, it can offer the supplier and the demander a unit of complete services from the supply chain. It can design the products from the standpoints of the...