DHL called emerging economies to reduce administrative barriers for transport

Through the lowest point in the global economy, the reduction of freight costs or improve the global economic recovery will be an important factor in speed.

The world's largest transportation companies DHL11 10 January morning in the margins of APEC's CEO announced an initiative in emerging economies should take three measures to help improve transport efficiency in emerging markets, these measures will reduce in 2020 the transportation costs of three percent or so .

These three measures include improvement of administrative efficiency, enhance the speed of freight cargo inspection and to improve the infrastructure.

Herman, CEO DHL Global Forwarding. Wood said that in the past 30 years, the proportion of GDP, global trade has grown from one third to one half, making international trade Chen to improve living standards to enhance economic growth in the most important factors, however, non-effective transport system is still a lot of obstacle to economic development.

Wood, for example, compared with Germany and Singapore, the BRIC countries more than twice the average import and export procedures, to China, for example, only one of the five import documentation be completed through electronic channels, but the only airport in Tianjin services, but in Singapore, 95% of the import formalities have been electronic.

"Reducing the burden of the government's approval is to enhance the lower freight cost the most effective means, and relatively easy to solve by technical means, we are called upon during the APEC to enhance the proportion of e-customs, and to explore better cross-border cooperation and the government agreements," Wood said .

Industry experienced a downturn over the past two years, the international shipping industry only just recovering, reduce costs has become industry-wide consensus. The one hand, increased international trade barriers, as well as developed countries because of concerns about terrorism, the international clearance are subject to a certain degree of control the speed; the other hand, advocates of electronic customs clearance for many years, but the major economies slow progress in intergovernmental collaboration.

IATA has called for the shipping industry to influence the United States, to persuade the full realization of its cargo in 2010 check was wrong, because it will dramatically reduce the efficiency of freight transport, while actively promoting the year 2010, from 81% of international transport to reduce the amount of approximately 64% of the paper.

In accordance with DHL's calculations, using the above method while reducing freight costs can be reduced 65%, while 20% -40% increase for growth in the amount of cargo.