With economic globalization and the advancement of the Internet and e-commerce, the domestic cross-border e-commerce industry has developed rapidly in recent years, and there are more and more cross-border e-commerce sellers. And every time you start a business, the first thing cross-border e-commerce sellers need to consider is express logistics. Because for cross-border e-commerce, overseas logistics is time-consuming and expensive, which has always been one of the important factors restricting the development of cross-border e-commerce. To some extent, the issue of cross-border e-commerce is mainly about cross-border e-commerce. The problem of logistics and warehousing, logistics is a link that has to be broken through. At this stage, various operation forms of cross-border e-commerce logistics coexist:
(1) Post International Small Packet Express. According to incomplete statistics, 70% of the parcels of China's cross-border e-commerce export business are delivered through the postal system, of which China Post accounts for about 50% of the business. Although the postal network basically covers the whole world, its transportation time is long and the packet loss rate is high.
(2) International express delivery. It is mainly composed of four giants: UPS, Fedex, DHL and TNT. International express delivery is faster and the customer experience is better, but it is expensive. For example, if you use UPS to send a package from China to the United States, it can arrive within 48 hours.
(3) Establish overseas warehouses. The seller first stores the goods in overseas warehouses, and then sorts, packs and delivers the goods on a large scale according to the order status. Although it solves the problems of high cost and long delivery cycle in the era of small parcels, it also has problems such as easy overstocking and high operation and maintenance costs.
(4) Cross-border special line logistics. This mode of operation is generally to transport the goods abroad by means of air charter, and then use the cooperative company for domestic delivery in the destination country. This method reduces costs through economies of scale, but the scope of collection in the country is relatively limited, and the coverage area needs to be expanded.
(5) Internationalized service of domestic express delivery. Both YTO and SF Express have established strategic plans for cross-border logistics. However, because it does not focus on cross-border business, the overseas markets covered are relatively limited.