China News Service, March 2. According to the official website of the National Railway Group, Zhao Jun, director of the freight department of the China Railway Group, introduced that as of February 29, the China Railway Group had shipped a total of 10,154 shipments of 203,000 tons of preventive, control, and protection materials.
Data Map: The staff will load the donated materials to the car. Photo by China News Agency reporter He Penglei
In February, the nation's railways delivered a total of 310 million tons of goods, an increase of 13.32 million tons year-on-year, an increase of 4.5%. Among them, the volume of container shipments reached 26.61 million tons, an increase of 39.5% year-on-year; the national average daily loading of railways was 171,000 vehicles, an increase of 4945 years. Vehicles; since February 17, daily shipments have been above 11 million tons for 13 consecutive days.
Zhao Jun introduced that after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the China Railway Group and the relevant departments and units of the joint prevention and control work mechanism of the State Council established an efficient communication and connection mechanism, opened up green channels, adhered to special events and urgent affairs, and used high-speed rail and ordinary speed buses. Luggage trucks and freight trucks, etc., race against time to transport prevention and control materials to Hubei, and fully support the epidemic prevention and control fight. As of February 29, the China Railway Group has shipped a total of 10,154 batches of prevention and control guarantee materials and 203,000 tons.
Zhao Jun pointed out that on the basis of the efficient delivery of epidemic prevention and control materials, the railway department has increased the supply of key materials for economic and social development such as raw materials, coal and spring ploughing. Actively liaise with local governments at all levels, upstream and downstream enterprises to understand logistics requirements such as resumption of production and production, input of raw materials, and output of products; establish a supply-demand linkage mechanism between railways and coal production enterprises and power plants, and timely grasp coal production, daily consumption and inventory, etc. The situation provides reliable guarantees for coal transportation for power generation, heating, and normal production of enterprises; dynamically grasps the external transport needs of major agricultural-related materials, such as seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, and provides transportation guarantee for spring ploughing and preparation.
In order to ensure the high-quality and efficient delivery of key materials, the railway department has taken advantage of the “one network”, “one game of chess” of the national railway, and centralized and unified dispatch and command to do everything possible to improve transportation efficiency. Use big data information tracking to accurately grasp the operation dynamics of key materials, speed up train formation, reduce stop times, and ensure "green lights" along the way; strengthen the organization of loading and unloading vehicles, scientifically allocate equipment, and organize employees to set up commando teams to solve the epidemic situation in some areas The labor shortage caused by the impact; coordinate and make short-distance connection transportation at both ends of the railway, and open up the "first and last mile" of transportation services. At the same time, agricultural fertilizers and other agricultural materials will be exempted from delayed fees, late fees, storage fees and other related expenses, and phosphate minerals, fertilizers, pesticides and other agricultural materials transportation and construction funds will be reduced to further reduce enterprise logistics costs and agricultural production costs.