Yiwu port is China’s most well-known global Gathering and logistics center for small commodities, China Yiwu market is an important platform for the world.

Since China’s reform and opening, successive Yiwu party committees and governments seize the opportunity, deepening the implementation of major traffic, large logistics, major ports strategy, to build regional logistics Highlands and Yiwu port. Yiwu port has become the busiest inland port and logistics hub. The experience that Yiwu logistics fostering and development is an important reference for China.

After 30 years of exploration and development, Yiwu creat a miracle in the history of China and even the world commodity trade. The core of logistics is modern information technology. Yiwu city, as the world’s commodity procurement and distribution center, is both the rich mine of information, and also the the largest information needs markets.

At present, Yiwu port has more than 2,000 of domestic logistics business units and international freight forwarding companies, with road freight from Yiwu directly to 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in 320 cities, which made a full coverage of major China cities. Goods can reach more than 90% of the prefecture-level cities. Basically Yiwu port has constructed a huge logistics network with small commodities market as distribution center; Yiwu has set up a public type bonded warehouse and make customs cooperation with Ningbo customs to implement “Different customs, ports release” customs clearance
mode. And Yiwu has opened “truck flight” to the Shanghai Airport. As to sea freight, China Shipping, French Dafei, Yixing, Wan Hai and other 18 world-renowned shipping companies set up offices in Yiwu. Logistics has covered 215 countries and regions in the world, in 2009 Yiwu exports 520,000 standard containers of goods,and in 2010 the number rise up to 560,000.Yiwu Port becomes more and more important in China and the whole world now.

As an international logistics hub in central and western regions of Zhejiang, every day Yiwu city will have more than 2000 container trucks shuttering between Ningbo ports and other nationwide enterprises. The amount of fuel is very huge. Therefore, the Urban Transportation Development Corporation innovatively developed two new business and spared no efforts on energy saving action and achieved fairly good effects.

The corporation spared no efforts to expand the uncoupling and trailing business of container trucks. The traditional containers adopt the transportation mode of tracter and trailer connected. The tracter and trailer transport is that tractors drop the trailers at cargo loading and unloading points accordingly and continue to run after putting on other trailers. This can significantly avoid empty running and ineffective transportation, reducing energy consumption and exhaust emissions, so it has been widely used internationally. The Transportation Development Corporation set up the international container operations center and practise the tractor and trailer transportation. In two months, it has successfully completed 980 drops and putons. The average fuel consumption of each truck has been reduced by 20-30%.

The company also introduced the container return business. Yiwu is located in the interior and goods are mostly export-oriented. The international container transportation has a common phenomenon of “one light and one heavy”. “one light” means that the container from Ningbo to Yiwu is empty, “one heavy” is that the container from Yiwu to Ningbo is heavy with full goods. Therefore, there is an empty trasportation, which will create a great waste of energy. While the energy saving and emission reduction potential is also great. The core idea of this business is to achieve the “double full trasportation” between Yiwu and Ningbo through the platform of logistics. This is accomplished by building container yard, and the company is in responsibility of communicating with shipping or freight forwarding companys to arrange full containers from Ningbo to discharge in Yiwu or the surrounding area, and then put the empty container to the container yard for Yiwu export enterprises to book containers. In this way, empty container transportation can be avoided so as to achieve energy saving and consumption reduction. Currently the Transportation Development Corporation has joint customs, Zhejiang E-port companies, shipping companies, freight forwarders and other departments and units to carry out this business.