Study On The Economic Feasibility Of Containerized Grain Transportation

Grain is essential for human existence and grain transportation is one of the vital part of the grain circulation. With the continuously increase of China’s grain consumption, grain logistics market gets rapid expansion, which generates a higher demand for grain transportation. The imbalance of the domestic grain production and marketing, results in a larger volume of grain transportation and a longer distance. During the development of grain transportation, it is particularly important to know how to reduce logistics costs in the grain transportation, as well as food spilling problems and other issues.At present, packaging transportation and bulk transportation are two ways for domestic grain transportation, but each method has its own shortcomings. Grain packaging and transportation need to spend a lot of packaging materials and packaging costs. Low level of mechanization also brings in intensive labor and low efficiency. With repeatedly loading and unloading in the grain bulk transportation, it’s difficult to guarantee grain quality. Also, the number of bulk grain transportation equipment is too few. Therefore, the containerized grain transportation is a good supplement for grain transportation.Most of the existing researches on the containerized grain transportation are only shallow analysis of the advantages of the containerized grain transportation, and there is no comprehensive and integrated study of its feasibility. Therefore, a study on the feasibility of the containerized grain transportation are of great significance for its development both from theory and reality.This paper gives a detailed analysis of research on the process and advantages of the containerized grain transportation, and has a quantitative analysis to compare the cost of traditional bulk grain transportation and containerized grain transportation. Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation and analytic hierarchy process are taken in the economic feasibility evaluation of the containerized grain transportation. Containerized grain transportation is proved to be feasible by comparing the performance of grain packaging transportation and bulk grain transportation. So containerized grain transportation is worthwhile to develop.