In order to promote the development of foreign trade, some local governments support enterprises to apply for public overseas warehouses and provide certain preferential support policies. Public overseas warehouses focus on the public nature. In addition to being used by enterprises, they also provide other foreign trade operators with overseas comprehensive marketing services such as customs clearance, warehousing, distribution, and display. According to the government support objects, public overseas warehouses can be divided into the following three types.
(1) Logistics-type public overseas warehouses
This refers to overseas warehouses that rely on fixed routes (sea, rail, and air) and fixed time and advantageous pricing, and provide customers with transportation, freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution and other logistics services according to customer needs. It provides integrated supply chain services for international shipping, warehousing, sorting, packaging, distribution and transshipment in a timely and quantitative manner. The advantage is that its international feeder transportation costs and terminal distribution costs in the destination country (region) are lower than those of other public overseas warehouses.
(2) Trade-based public overseas warehouses
This refers to building an offline sales and online display platform for domestic sellers based on existing trade activities, relying on the local segmented sales channels and network relationships in the destination country (region), and under the original international trade background, relying on the timeliness of local overseas warehouses to achieve a good B-end purchasing experience.
(3) Platform-based public overseas warehouses
This refers to placing an order through a third-party platform, and logistics delivery to overseas warehouses for decomposition, repackaging, and then distribution to the client’s overseas warehouse. Platform-based public overseas warehouses focus on domestic sellers, and overseas warehouses and overseas buyers are on the same system platform. The advantage is that it facilitates communication among the three parties, can be managed and solved in a unified manner, and focuses on system development and international payment issues, and strives to provide a good C (customer) end user experience.