After the outbreak of the epidemic in China, how to ensure the supply during the epidemic prevention has become a difficult problem for local governments and transportation departments. This not only involves the living materials of tens of millions of people in Shanghai, but also determines whether enterprises can operate in the closed loop. continue to operate.
China’s road transportation is responsible for more than 70% of the freight volume of the whole society, and is the “artery” supporting economic and social development. However, due to the recent impact of the epidemic, many truck drivers are pulling goods stuck on inter-provincial highways.
The head of a multinational automobile supply chain company located in Anting, Jiading, Shanghai said: “Due to epidemic control reasons, a large number of non-local vehicles might not get permits to enter Shanghai, so we arranged for some transport vehicles to enter Shanghai’s expressways,” Yicai.com reported. I went up to pick up the goods, but picking up the goods every day is like a “hit luck”, because it is very likely that several trucks of goods will not be able to be delivered.”
The person in charge of the company said that the reason why these goods pulled from other provinces might not be transported was because the trucks would face multiple interceptions along the way. Passing through, which delays time, we often send a good vehicle to pick it up, only to return empty-handed.”
These risks are borne by the enterprise. The person in charge of the company said reluctantly: “The shipping cost is already a second consideration, and it is rising by thousands every day. The current shipping price is 10-15 times our contract price, and even more than 20 times in some places. , it is still rising every day, the key is that the money has been lost in the end.”
At present, various fancy policies have been proposed all over the country, layer by layer, and illegally set up epidemic prevention checkpoints to block transportation channels without authorization.
In addition to presenting a pass, green code, itinerary code, and 24-hour nucleic acid report, these regulations also include applying for various local codes in advance, as well as sticking seals and preventing drivers from getting off the bus. Many truck drivers have issued passes, but they are still unable to get off the expressway company. The passes are useless and are not recognized by each other.
The person in charge of the company also said that the current policy “changes three times a day” and hundreds of traffic notices are issued every day. He said: “The roads and expressways (highways) in the Yangtze River Delta region are blocked everywhere and stuck everywhere. A large number of vehicles and drivers are stranded at most expressway (highway exit) exits, and they cannot get off the expressway due to various reasons. Many drivers are blocked (in) their cars. In the past few days, there was no water or rations, and I didn’t even dare to go to the toilet, because I was afraid of being detained or detained.”
This automotive supply chain manufacturer produces automotive connector products for domestic and foreign markets. More than 70% of upstream suppliers are located in the Yangtze River Delta, Shenzhen and other places.
In the early stage of the epidemic, a number of highway epidemic prevention checkpoints were set up in various places with the approval of the joint prevention and control mechanism. Data from the Ministry of Transport showed that as of April 10, a total of 11,219 road epidemic prevention checkpoints had been set up across the country.
Wu Chungeng, director of highways at the Ministry of Transport, said on April 12 that according to previous years, the daily traffic on national highways was around 30 million vehicles. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, the traffic on national highways has dropped significantly in the past month. Taking April 11 as an example, the national highway traffic was over 18 million vehicles, a 40% drop from the same period last year.
Jing Linbo, dean of the China Social Science Evaluation Research Institute, said: “The fundamental reason for the current lack of smooth logistics is that local governments have increased their prevention and control policies, resulting in the current situation of their own isolation; another problem is the lack of information sharing between localities, which cannot form The logistics of the whole country is a game of chess. The fundamental solution to this problem is to establish a standard and unified mutual recognition system.”
