Collection and transshipment are currently popular forms of cross-border logistics operations. The price/performance ratio is better than pure international express delivery. It breaks through the traditional models of postal parcels, commercial express, overseas warehouses and international air transport, and is a combined form. In the past few years, most overseas e-commerce companies did not support cross-border direct mail, and transshipment companies took the opportunity to grow.
The core of this operating model is to take advantage of the faults in international logistics and seize the link scale effect. Choose a suitable collection warehouse, collect a sufficient amount of parcels, ship them in batches to reduce air booking costs, and then switch to cheap express delivery domestically. The trade imbalance between China and Europe and the United States has led to an imbalance in logistics resources. China’s export air freight positions are very tight, but there is a lot of return shipping capacity.
The air freight price from Los Angeles to Shanghai is as low as 5 yuan/kg, which is a world of difference from the quotations of large express delivery. Cost and scale advantages are the basis for the existence of many low-cost Chinese express delivery companies. Their main income comes from freight, packaging and storage fees. Customs clearance fees and tariffs are mostly transparent. Build an Internet-based user, order, receipt and delivery management system, and sign up with a suitable freight forwarder to ship goods back to the country.
Depending on the port of entry, there are usually several routes back to the country, and even Hong Kong and Macao routes. In addition to overseas shopping retail customers, as cross-border e-commerce enterprises accumulate logistics needs, the efficiency and experience of this type of express delivery are also rapidly improving. Many transshipment companies are gradually developing into comprehensive international logistics service providers. For example, Kelpbao was the first to be listed on the market relying on overseas shopping transshipment.
The right arm of transshipment is transportation resources and customs clearance capabilities. Customs clearance is still within the general framework of trade or item customs clearance. The main channels are express import and cross-border direct purchase import, both of which require the recipient to upload their ID card. . In order to help customers reasonably avoid taxes, overseas companies will provide customers with services such as merging multiple packages or mixing and dividing into boxes. The same consignee is limited to only one package per day. For items with a higher unit price that exceeds the customs limit, each package is limited to one package. , reduce the risk of being taxed. In fact, due to the difficulty of electronic customs clearance operations, regulatory arbitrage is becoming less and less common.
In order to expand entry ports, those who are not in pilot cities can try various local customs clearance procedures if conditions permit. Customs non-networked cross-border e-commerce can theoretically transmit three orders of data through express delivery, but e-commerce websites and payments must still be registered on the cross-border e-commerce customs clearance service platform.
Overseas goods collection is closer to the original meaning of overseas shopping. Products are stored overseas and the categories are richer, matching the diversified and personalized trends of user needs. This kind of logistics operation is conducive to the entry of long-tail non-standard and high-priced goods. The customer base is becoming increasingly broad. Cross-border e-commerce non-standard goods such as Baby Grid have reached 80%. “Localized procurement + overseas warehouse collection and transshipment” It has become the new standard in the industry. For logistics companies, the key to meeting and operating user needs is the integration of logistics resources and cost control, relying on system integration of upstream and downstream and electronic customs clearance.