As the domestic e-commerce market becomes saturated, more and more e-commerce professionals are beginning to move to foreign markets. Regardless of the form of e-commerce, logistics support is indispensable. Cross-border logistics refers to international logistics. Cross-border logistics transports goods from one country or region to another by sea or air, thereby completing the ultimate goal of international commodity trading. So, what are the characteristics of cross-border logistics?
First, language communication issues. Goods must be safely transported from one country to another, and on the way, the goods need to pass through many countries. In order to pass customs, the labels of the goods themselves must be in multiple languages.
Secondly, cross-border logistics takes a long time and there are tax issues. This is different from domestic logistics transportation, and the specific tax issues are different internationally. Different tax rate policies are also different.
Third, cross-border logistics has the characteristics of single function and narrow service positioning. Many cross-border e-commerce or enterprises have a single mode of transportation, small service function selection, cannot meet customer needs, and lack competitiveness.
Fourth, the diversification of logistics forms. Since cross-border logistics involves multiple links, there are multiple forms at all levels, and customs clearance can be divided into sea, land, air and dedicated lines.
Fourth, there is fierce competition between regions or within a single industry, and less cross-industry competition between regions. Although there are many competitors in the cross-border logistics industry, it is limited by its own financial strength, management level and technical capabilities. Since the national logistics market is separated from each other, its competition characteristics are competition between enterprises in a certain region.
Fifth, the service functions are single, there are few value-added services, and homogeneous competition is intensifying. Most cross-border logistics companies can only provide sea or air logistics services. They can provide multimodal transport (such as sea and air transport) and cross-border logistics companies to meet the different needs of customers; in terms of providing cross-border logistics services, traditional customs declaration, ticket booking and other services are limited, and there are fewer transportation solutions provided, which optimizes the design of comprehensive logistics services, so the phenomenon of homogeneous competition is more serious.