1. Dedicated line logistics
Dedicated line logistics refers to cross-border dedicated logistics routes launched for specific countries or regions. According to the different service objects, dedicated line logistics can be divided into cross-border e-commerce platform enterprise dedicated line logistics and international logistics enterprise dedicated line logistics. Among them, cross-border e-commerce platform enterprise dedicated line logistics is a logistics project developed by large e-commerce platforms specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises that sell goods online on the e-commerce platform. By setting up warehouses in China, it achieves the purpose of providing simple, easy and low-cost logistics services. Cross-border e-commerce logistics dedicated lines mainly include aviation dedicated lines, port dedicated lines, railway dedicated lines, land bridge dedicated lines, ocean dedicated lines and fixed multimodal transport dedicated lines.
The difference between dedicated line logistics and traditional logistics (including postal logistics and commercial express delivery) lies in the word “dedicated”. The former generally transports goods to foreign countries by air charter, and then delivers them domestically in the destination country through cooperative logistics companies. Dedicated line logistics reduces logistics costs through scale effects. The overall timeliness is faster than postal logistics and slower than international express delivery. The price of dedicated line logistics will change over time. The specific price is subject to the quotation at the time of shipment. Different logistics companies and different dedicated lines have more or less price differences. You should choose the appropriate dedicated line logistics solution according to your actual needs. For example, the China-US Haipai dedicated line is an economical line launched by Alibaba International Station for platform merchants. It adopts sea transportation + terminal UPS / FedEx delivery, and is carried by Fanyuan International Logistics. It provides warehouse-to-door service, but only supports shipments from the United States.
2. Overseas warehouse
As the name suggests, overseas warehouses are storage facilities built overseas. In cross-border trade, overseas warehouses are domestic companies that transport goods to target market countries in the form of bulk transportation, build warehouses locally, store goods, and then respond to sales orders in the first time, sorting, packaging and delivery from local warehouses in a timely manner. In the era of large-scale logistics, many logistics companies have begun to build overseas warehouses on a large scale. For example, Ali Logistics’ overseas warehouses in Los Angeles, West America, and New Jersey, East America. The services they provide include: basic warehouse services such as warehousing, storage, and outbound delivery; terminal delivery services for fast and traceable goods delivery; value-added services such as labeling, relabeling, and repackaging; return services after logistics delivery failures; platform support services for order delivery from offline channels and other e-commerce platforms, etc.