The international shipping industry has changed a lot in recent years, including changes driven by mergers and acquisitions, as well as the impact of Internet technology applications. Since 2014, institutions have focused on investing in the international maritime logistics field, and many start-up companies have been working in this field, bringing about significant changes to the industry. These changes mainly include the following aspects:

The frequent mergers of shipping companies have led to the increasing scale and concentration of transportation capacity of leading shipping companies. Representative examples include the merger of COSCO and China Shipping, Maersk's acquisition of Hamburg South America, and the merger of three Japanese shipping companies into ONE. As the most important upstream supplier of the logistics chain, the trend of concentration will also have some impact on the Internet logistics platform model.

The emergence of multiple freight platforms has reduced the number of flight orders that originally relied on information asymmetry, rapidly compressed the offline supply chain hierarchy, and also caused the online trading model, which was originally driven by low freight rates for end customers by deleting hierarchy, to lose its foundation. The experience of numerous B2B industries shows that online transaction models must bring at least 20-30% cost or efficiency advantages over offline transaction models, otherwise it is difficult to promote. The international maritime logistics industry also needs to explore alternative feasible models.

The integration, integration, and openness of basic information in the industry have rapidly improved. Shanghai Port integrated its cargo information in March last year and opened it to the public; The information integration of Ningbo Port was done earlier than that of Shanghai; The nationwide truck positioning information was also integrated at the beginning of last year. The openness of business information of industry leaders such as docks and large shipping companies plays a crucial role in promoting transparency, standardization, and efficiency improvement of the entire industry.

The rapid increase in labor costs and the recruitment difficulties highlighted in the past two years have led to an increasing emphasis on systematization and upstream downstream connectivity in the industry. Just like Foxconn's large-scale promotion of automation to replace high dependence on human labor, the future international maritime logistics industry will also face drastic changes brought about by systematization and intelligence.