In order to be close enough to the target market center, rental and operating costs in Western Europe are very high. Many companies have begun to build warehouses in Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain and other places. Transportation and customs clearance are also major considerations. Different from overseas warehouses and overseas destinations, border warehouses are located in countries adjacent or close to the country where the goods are imported.
In actual operation, the advantages of border warehouses are mainly reflected in effectively avoiding political, legal, tax and other risks in the destination country of goods, and making full use of regional free trade logistics policies to ensure logistics efficiency. For example, some large sellers purchase goods from China to overseas warehouses in Eastern Europe and then ship them to Moscow.
Strictly speaking, the currently popular Sino-Russian border warehouses are the sorting and turnover warehouses of post offices, not overseas warehouses, and are different from the trade chain of overseas warehouses. Due to its border with China and its economic level, residents in the Russian Far East have a stronger sense of identification with China and have a stronger demand for Chinese goods.
Sino-Russian border trade ports such as Suifenhe and Manzhouli are convenient for transit, and then transferred to Moscow via air transport in Russia, which improves the timeliness of the first and last journeys. Border trade is a convenient form for cross-border cooperation between the three places across the Taiwan Strait, ASEAN, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Northeast Asia and other surrounding regions. Horgos on the China-Kazakhstan border will also be an important land transportation and railway collection point in the future.