On third-party logistics warehousing industry expansion
Abstract：Third Party Logistics (TPL) has emerged as a new industry only during the last two decades. Since the 1990s, the traditional logistics firms are reorganized to the modern form characterized with the third-party logistics，and it is playing an increasingly important role in China economy social division and market demanding becomes ever more complicated with unpredictable as a result of economic globalization and the rapid progress of science and technology.At the same time，there already appeared a good number of Third Party Logistics Corporations in China, each competing for a share in the market.The most important is the traditional warehousing which must change into the modern form characterized with the third-party logistics.And the competition is expected to become fiercer after China enters the World Trade Organization.
The traditional warehousing which is the principal force doesn’t do very well in the course of developing the third-party logistics. The Chinese corporations are relatively weak in competitiveness because of the system，human resource and so on.
The paper has expounded the background，value and the developing of the third-party logistics.It also has expouned the developing of the warehousing.It has put forward some questions and suggestions. How to increase the competitiveness of China TPL corporations so as to enable them to make maximum contributions to the national economy become a pressing issue in nowadays.
