Cross-border e-commerce logistics construction: Accelerate overseas warehousing layout and supporting system upgrade

The development of cross-border e-commerce is facing major challenges in the logistics system. Although the B2B platform model has become mature, B2C cross-border e-commerce started late, resulting in its proportion in export e-commerce being still low. At present, the immaturity of logistics support is one of the main obstacles to its development, which also prevents merchants from obtaining potential profits from it.

In China, the warehousing supporting system has a relatively high level of development and can support the rapid growth of domestic e-commerce. However, the logistics of cross-border e-commerce is restricted by many factors, including the policies, geographical conditions, language, culture and economic development level of the relevant countries. These differences make cross-border e-commerce face considerable challenges when building an efficient logistics system, and industry practitioners must proactively think and find solutions.

In the e-commerce industry chain, logistics has always been a key link, and cross-border e-commerce is no exception. Domestic logistics companies began to enter this field in 2006. After several years of development, especially after 2012, they gradually made remarkable achievements. Today, logistics giants such as SF Express, YTO, and STO have formed large-scale businesses in overseas markets and continue to increase investment. Their business coverage is gradually expanding to emerging markets such as Latin America and Russia.

At the same time, some cross-border e-commerce companies are also cooperating with logistics companies and actively establishing warehousing facilities overseas to provide one-stop services including warehousing, sorting, packaging and distribution. This model significantly reduces the local delivery time of goods and provides users with return and exchange services, which greatly improves consumers’ shopping experience. In addition, the establishment of overseas warehousing has also prompted large-scale cargo transportation to gradually replace small-scale transportation, thus saving logistics costs. This is an important way to break the bottleneck of cross-border logistics.

Ultimately, overseas warehousing layout has become the development trend of cross-border e-commerce. Many companies are accelerating investment and large-scale development in overseas warehousing. At the same time, with the gradual improvement of the logistics system, the product types of export e-commerce have also shown a trend of diversification, and more and more large-sized products have begun to enter the business scope of cross-border e-commerce. All this indicates that cross-border e-commerce still has broad development space in the global market.