The new trend of the Service Trade Fair, and many logistics companies advocate the "green revolution"

Logistics is the "muscle" of the real economy, connecting production and consumption, domestic trade and foreign trade. At the 2024 Service Trade Fair, the Supply Chain Transportation Special Exhibition focused on the theme of "people enjoy travel, goods flow smoothly, and safe access", and set up three thematic areas: travel services, smart logistics and transportation, and supply chain security. During the reporter's visit, he saw related content with the themes of "green" and "wisdom" in the exhibition areas of many logistics companies.

Tape and electronic face sheets achieve "slimming" and reduce the burden on express packaging

50+ recyclable times, 80 million recyclable cartons, and 175,000 tons of wood saving... As an exhibitor of the "Supply Chain and Business Services" special exhibition, Yunda Express takes the theme of "leading quality and efficiency, leading digital intelligence, and innovation-driven", comprehensively displays the company's achievements in digitalization, intelligence and greening. Among them, to promote the "Green Revolution" section of express packaging, Yunda used a set of eye-catching numbers to attract many visitors to stop.

The reporter learned that in recent years, in response to the national call for environmental protection and energy conservation, Yunda has launched express packaging recycling boxes and recycling boxes and promoted them throughout the network. "So far, we have implemented more than 12000 recycling boxes and more than 10000 recycling boxes, all over outlets and distribution centers. At the same time, the recycling express box is made of environmentally friendly PP plastic, which is degradable and non-polluting, and can be reused more than 50 times. The innovative use of snap-in sealing breaks away from the reliance on traditional plastic tape and truly achieves the goal of generating '0' packaging waste during recycling." Staff in the exhibition area told reporters.

In addition, electronic face sheets and "slimming" tape also attracted the attention of visitors. "In the initial stage of express delivery collection, Yunda uniformly switched the entire platform's electronic face sheet into a single face sheet, achieving a major reduction in the electronic face sheet, removing redundancy, and loading it lightly. The electronic sheet has changed from two sheets to one sheet, reducing the area by nearly half. This alone, Yunda can save more than 100,000 A4-sized sheets of paper every year. At the same time, we actively responded to the 'tape slimming' plan, giving priority to purchasing 'slimming tapes' below 45 mm that meet national standards, industry standards and relevant national regulations, and gradually promoting their use throughout the network to reduce the amount of tape used during production and operation." Staff told reporters.

Recycling document bags and recycling boxes in the exhibition area. Photo by Zhang Qian

China Post is also conducting similar explorations. At this service trade fair, China Post EMS demonstrated the shared fast basin of low-carbon recycling packaging tools, which contains a green express outer packaging tool with a unique vector code electronic chip. The shared fast basin is managed through the IoT core vector technology platform to realize recycling. Based on use and 100% recycling, through the management of the IoT core vector technology platform, the shared fast basin is applied to express logistics packaging in the form of a shared tool to improve logistics efficiency, simplify operations, and create a new sharing economic model.

Actively implement the "double carbon" strategy and promote the green and low-carbon transformation of the logistics industry

In recent years, logistics companies have been guided by implementing the "double carbon" strategy, aiming at energy conservation and emission reduction, and integrating climate change responses into corporate operation and management practices. The same is true for SF Express, Asia's largest integrated express logistics service provider. It is understood that SF Express is implementing green management covering the entire logistics life cycle through measures such as low-carbon transportation, building green industrial parks, research and development of sustainable packaging, and green technology applications, and actively creating green and sustainable logistics.

The reporter learned at this year's Service Trade Fair that SF Express pioneered the industry's green and low-carbon transformation example and created a digitally intelligent carbon management platform "Fenghe Sustainable Development Platform". "The platform covers multiple aspects such as packaging, transportation, transit, and delivery. It has a total of more than 120 indicators in more than 60 typical scenarios. It can calculate carbon emissions from end-to-end links in real time. On the basis of obtaining ISO14064 certification, the platform has further obtained ISO14083 certification and is the first company in the express delivery industry to receive this certification." Staff in the exhibition area told reporters that based on the platform's standardized carbon management chassis capabilities and green and low-carbon supply chain management capabilities, SF Express can help customers understand greenhouse gas emissions in transportation and logistics-related activities, and improve the transparency of carbon emission data in supply chain logistics. Degree to achieve effective identification and control during the operation process. At present, it has effectively supported many customers to create a green, low-carbon sustainable supply chain ecosystem and help enhance customer brand value. In the future, we will continue to replicate and expand the scale to further enhance the brand's influence in the field of green logistics system construction.

In addition, the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Logistics Coordinated Development Report"(2014-2023) was also released during the Fair. The report shows that the total freight volume of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei has maintained rapid growth throughout the year, reaching 3.449 million tons in 2023, an increase of more than 250 million tons compared with 2014. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional logistics network has become more complete. The construction of the logistics network has achieved an integrated advancement of "point-line-area". The three-dimensional logistics system of land, sea and air has been continuously improved, the network structure has been continuously optimized, and regional transportation efficiency has been significantly improved. Green and low-carbon have laid a good foundation.

With people's consumption of online purchases and global purchases, the spatial pattern of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei e-commerce logistics and express delivery industry has undergone major changes. In 2023, the regional express delivery business volume will reach 10.55 billion pieces. Green logistics and cold chain logistics are compatible with the development of the times. The number of "green warehouse" certifications in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei has increased year by year. As of July this year, 83 "green warehouse" star certifications in China have been obtained. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei agricultural product cold chain logistics system with a 50-kilometer commuter circle, a 100-kilometer functional circle, and a 150-kilometer industrial circle has taken shape.