Lianyungang port news (reporter ren poetry), June 8 (Reuters) - yesterday, lianyungang to the central and western regions of zhengzhou, xi 'an, chengdu container transport "five set" trains travel line, lianyungang port EDI platform based data exchange system for container transportation has been one month trial run.

Early development of the project, from lianyungang port group in zhengzhou, xi 'an, chengdu office staff or the owner directly to the local freight invoice of the input data, and the cloud in lianyungang port in railway station for the connection of information. As a result, the Midwest customers through the information system platform, can timely tracking arrived at lianyungang port container; And, more importantly, lianyungang port can provide information according to this system, timely and accurate grasp of port container destination, quickly arrange the corresponding terminal operation, reduce the overturned terminal box, for clients to reduce cost of port, and greatly improve the efficiency of container shipping out to sea. And without development before using this system, the central and western regions of shipment to the containers, because information transfer by artificial, low speed, low efficiency, often causing inconvenience to the port operations, but also increase the customer's logistics costs.

Lianyungang to the central and western regions of the "five trains" EDI system development and application of the preliminary attempt, to the enterprise in the Midwest, the shipper, freight forwarders and lianyungang port tracking cargo information has brought great convenience; For service lianyungang port expansion scale of container transportation, make main port has a positive role.

At present, only the EDI for container transportation system in lianyungang are chosen to the central and western regions of zhengzhou, xi 'an, chengdu three trains travel online, specific, undertake the task the application development of lianyungang port, said an official with the EDI center will cooperate with the port and railway departments to further speed up the development and application progress, applied to the container transport for years in the line to the west of "five set" trains for the central and western regions of customers timely tracking import container reach the station, the next development step by step to promote applied to all five trains.

EDI for container transportation in railways, ports, export-oriented enterprises, and many logistics enterprises have very big application prospect, to improve the application level of informationization of logistics industry in our country, promote the healthy development of the logistics industry, reduce logistics cost has a great practical significance.