Logistics is a service industry that is highly related to macroeconomic development. There is no logistics that is separated from the entity, and there is no entity that does not require logistics. Economic development is the decisive factor in promoting trade, and trade is the decisive factor in the development of international logistics. As an important pillar of industrial structure adjustment and upgrading, modern logistics currently belongs to a multi-format system, including warehousing, transportation, contract logistics, circulation and distribution, express delivery and parcels, freight forwarding, etc.
There is no exact figure for the size of the global logistics industry market. Due to the high logistics costs, if China’s GDP exceeded 70 trillion yuan in 2016, the scale of my country’s logistics industry market would exceed 12 trillion yuan, ranking Ranking first in the world, even much higher than the United States. Against the backdrop of economic growth, development of the tertiary industry, and urbanization, the total amount of social logistics has maintained rapid growth.
International logistics, as part of the large logistics market, has a bright future due to favorable factors such as national policy support, the trend of trade liberalization and facilitation, the growth of cross-border e-commerce investment, and strong online cross-border consumption. Very impressive.
Cross-border logistics has become an important part of the national One Belt and One Road strategy, serving the cross-border e-commerce industry chain. It includes both heavy-asset logistics services and third-party light-asset supporting service providers. According to cross-border e-commerce The rigidly needed services in each link have derived many innovative operating models around core demands such as cost, efficiency, and experience. According to static calculations, based on the current import and export cross-border e-commerce transaction volume of 2 trillion yuan and a conservative 20% logistics cost, the cross-border logistics market size exceeds 6000 billion yuan.