The international maritime industry has changed a lot in recent years, with internal changes brought about by mergers and acquisitions, as well as the impact brought by the application of Internet technology. Since the organization began to focus on investing in the field of international maritime logistics in 2014, many entrepreneurial enterprises have worked in this field, which has brought a lot of real changes to the industry. These changes mainly include the following aspects:

The consolidation of shipping companies one after another leads to the growing scale of the leading shipping companies and the concentration of shipping capacity. 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 model of Internet logistics platform.

The emergence of multiple freight platforms has reduced the number of flight orders that originally depended on information asymmetry, rapidly compressed the level of the offline supply chain, and also lost the foundation of the original online transaction mode, which was mainly driven by the deletion of the level to bring low freight to the end customer. The experience of many B2B industries shows that the online transaction model must bring at least 20-30% advantage over the offline transaction model in terms of cost or efficiency, otherwise it is difficult to promote. The international maritime logistics industry also needs to explore another feasible model.

The level of basic information integration, integration and openness of the industry has increased rapidly. Shanghai Port integrated the cargo information of Shanghai Port in March last year and opened it to the public; The information integration of Ningbo Port is even earlier than that of Shanghai. Nationwide truck location information was also integrated early last year. The opening of the business information of the major players in the industry, such as the docks and large shipping companies, plays a pivotal role in promoting the transparency, standardization and efficiency of the entire industry.

The rapid growth of labor costs and the recruitment difficulties highlighted in the past two years have made the industry pay more and more attention to systematization and upstream and downstream interconnection. Just like Foxconn's large-scale promotion of automation to replace a high degree of reliance on manpower, the future international maritime logistics industry will also face drastic changes brought about by systematization and intelligence.