The advent of the winter transport encounters a "hard" bottleneck

In November, the arrival of new grain in the northeast region came to the market. The attention of the North Grain and the South began to heat up.

On October 27, the Heilongjiang Railway Transport Work Conference was held in Harbin. The lack of total, seasonal, directional, and structural contradictions faced by railway transportation became the most discussed issue among participating companies. The problem of the shortage of grain and transport capacity of the North Grain and the South has once again become the focus of the industry when the Winter Games arrive.

“The problem of difficult railway transportation in Heilongjiang Province is an old problem. With the arrival of the peak season of transporting grain, it will be more and more difficult for wagons to be hard to come by,” said Lu Rongwei, general manager of Harbin Grain and Oil Trading Company.

It is understood that on November 1, the Heilongjiang railway transportation system officially began its winter transportation work. Every winter comes, coal, steel, timber, grain, and a large number of resource products will continue to reach the destination along the railway line or transit through the port. The railway transportation capacity is running at full capacity, and it is difficult to get a wagon.

Zhao Xingfu, deputy general manager of Beijing Daxie Xinya Economic and Trade Co., Ltd., told the reporter of the Grains, Oils, and Markets News that Xinya’s annual grain and grain shipments amounted to more than 1 million tons. In the past, it mainly took the railway and gradually transferred to the hot metal transport in recent years. The main reason is that it is difficult for railroads to apply wagons. In the off-season, it is better to say that even in the peak season of railway transportation, even if it is a major customer of the railway department, it is difficult to guarantee the application of wagons.

Difficulties in wagons are still true for large grain companies. What about the situation of many small and medium food traders? Zhu Changwen from Tieling said: “Wagons are hard to invite, especially to our small and medium-sized traders. We usually work with the port and coordinate wagon transport through the port. If we apply for it, we don’t know when we can approve it. In the later days, food prices may fall.” Liu Xianyu, general manager of Heilongjiang Farming Construction Sanjiang Grain Stores Co., Ltd., built the capital of rice in China and said that the Jiansanjiang area is a single-line local railway, and the amount of daily railway traffic That is, 20 cars, about 1200 tons, so the car is very difficult.

In the northern grain and the south, railway transportation has always dominated. With the dramatic increase in rice production in Northeast China and the increase in the volume of grain transferred, the state of transport shortages has become increasingly prominent, especially through the limited capacity of Shanhaiguan, which is the bottleneck of restrictions on the North Grain and the South.

The short-term bottleneck has no chance of breakthrough, and the hot metal transport will become a new choice for grain companies in the Northeast to try the northern grain and the south, and the northeast grain port transportation capacity will continue to expand.

Guo Lixin, general manager of Yingkou Port Food Co., Ltd., said that Yingkou Port currently has two dedicated grain terminals, with an annual transportation capacity of 10 million tons. Now the port's transport capacity is greater than that of rail transport to ports, and it is in a state of “failure to eat”. He believes that the key to the problem is still in the capacity of railway transportation.

Li Tao, director of the Dalian Port Harbin Office, said that in recent years, the grain transport capacity of the ports in the northeastern region has continuously increased, and the annual operating capacity of corn alone has reached 25 million to 30 million tons; the grain transport capacity cannot meet the conditions of the port energy transport. A factor of a prosperous season, grain companies hope to ship the grain from the northeast region from December to April. This is really unlikely. The railway transportation capacity is limited. In the off-season, the north grain and south can still be.