The Business Situation of Logistics Enterprises from January to April, 2012
Date Posted:2012-06-04
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According to the statistics of key logistics enterprises released by China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, the gross profit of key logistics enterprises caught a year-on-year growth of 7.4% from January to April, 5.8 % declining when compared that of January to March. Among the key logistics enterprises, the warehousing rose 13.4% from that of last year and the integrated logistics dropped 0.2%. The transportation logistics grew by 7.9% compared with that of last year, but among which the road freight fell sharply by 31.3% and the decline was expanding.
The main business income of key logistics enterprises jumped by 15.8% from January to April, 0.4 % slightly decreasing from the first three months. In the meantime, the main business cost increased by 16.9%, 1.4% growing from that of the first three months or 1.1% higher than that of main business income. The cost reached as high as 91.5 yuan among every hundred of the main business income. The profit margin of the main business income arrived 5.1%, 0.1 % down from that of the first three months. And the profit margin of port enterprises was 3.6%, declining 0.2% form the first three months.
The performance of logistics enterprises was struck by constant decline in this year, and the weak growing demand of the whole society and uprising cost of oil, human resources and capital were the key reasons. As the domestic economy is under the process of transformation and restructure, the logistics enterprises should pay more attention to corporation management. Meanwhile, more measures should be made on adjusting loan interest rate to reduce the financing cost for enterprises and accelerating the constructive tax reduction for better outer developing environment.