China Shipowners' Association: 2022 International Logistics Industry Digital Development Report

The report deeply interprets the new trend of digital development of global international logistics, including the overall situation of international logistics development, the stage of digital development, the emerging new technologies and challenges faced by digitalization, and other core issues of digital development of international logistics. The development of international logistics can be divided into three stages: "business digitalization", "process automation" and "operation intelligence". At present, the digitalization of the international logistics industry is in the process of transforming from "online business acceptance and information interconnection" to "smart operation, intelligent decision-making and autonomous operation", with the goal of "flexibly" responding to various "black swan" and "gray rhino" events.

The report believes that the uncertainty in industry development caused by factors such as multiple links, difficult monitoring, weak management, shortage of containers, large price fluctuations, uncontrollable transportation plans, as well as industry pain points such as information opacity, numerous data silos formed by multiple communication levels, and the "bullwhip effect" of the supply chain are constantly pushing up the commercial value of international logistics digitalization and deriving advanced digital logistics technology solutions and innovative models.

The report states that in addition to industry associations, shipping companies, ports, and technology companies from the industry leaders are also actively promoting the establishment of industry digital standards to help international logistics digitalization enter a more standardized, efficient, and secure development channel. The report also points out that logistics + digitalization will inevitably become an important development trend in the international trade industry. Companies that can take the lead in rapid development in the industry and gain a leading position are expected to become an important driving force for the rapid leapfrogging of the industry.