物流作为一种先进的运输生产组织方式和管理技术,是降低企业物资消耗、提高劳动生产率以外的“第三利润源泉”。运输是物流的核心环节之一,其作用是实现货物的空间位移。物流过程需要通过运输来实现,物流的概念是运输意义的延伸。 现代物流是在运输业实现集装箱化的革命性变革和集装箱多式联运有了长足发展的基础上出现的,它要求把物流、商品流、信息流统一起来,并做到 Logistics as an advanced means of transportation and production organization and management techniques, is to reduce the consumption of goods, improve labor productivity beyond the “third source of profit.” Transport is one of the core links of logistics, its role is to achieve the spatial displacement of goods. Logistics process needs to be achieved through the transport, the concept of logistics is an extension of the meaning of transport. Modern logistics has emerged from the revolution of containerization in the transport industry and the rapid development of container multimodal transport. It requires that logistics, commodity flow and information flow should be unified and achieved