(I) Customs clearance process and relevant regulations The BC import model is commonly known as direct mail. Foreign merchants transport goods that have been sold online to domestic ports by air transport and other means. The bonded warehouse agent picks up the goods in the form of transshipment and takes them to the designated supervision…
Cross-border e-commerce has diverse demands for logistics, including import and export, door-to-door/warehouse-to-warehouse/warehouse-to-door. Most traditional freight forwarders only provide customs declaration and booking services for customers, and are responsible for cross-border intermediate transportation. Customs clearance at the destination port, picking up goods and taxes will be the responsibility of the consignee, while postal/express parcels are more…
Basic concepts (1) Actual gross weight: the sum of the net weight of the cargo and the weight of the package. (2) Volumetric weight: the cargo volume is converted into weight according to a certain ratio, with 0.5 kg as the calculation unit. The formula for calculating volumetric weight is: Volume weight = cargo volume/6000…
The basis for making the bill is the waybill, invoice and relevant approval documents that prove the legal import of goods. Generally, the bill can be made only after receiving the reply and confirmation from the customer and obtaining the necessary approval documents and certificates. The forms of bill making, inspection and customs declaration include…
Cargo charter transport refers to when the cargo volume is large, the lessee (shipper/freight forwarder) leases the entire aircraft from an airline or charter agent, or several lessees charter the entire aircraft together (partial charter), for example, temporary charter flights for emergency rescue, dangerous goods, exhibitions, rare animals and oversized cargo. The surge in cross-border…
After receiving the shipment forecast from the shipper, collect and fill in the “booking order” from the airline’s ton control department, and provide the corresponding information: cargo name, volume (single piece size if necessary), weight, number of pieces, destination, required shipping time, and other transportation requirements (temperature, loading and unloading requirements, time limit for cargo…
Logistics business personnel complete the forecast work on the operating system based on the information provided by cross-border e-commerce customers, assign a waybill number to each shipment, match the route requirements and customer requirements, and formulate a pre-allocation plan. The business personnel then need to complete the booking of cabins at least one week before…
Civil aviation transport flights operate according to prescribed routes, including direction, starting and ending points, stopover points, route width, and flight altitude. The general trend of international routes is east-west, concentrated in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, roughly forming a circular aviation belt. The countries and regions with the densest international routes are Europe,…
(1) Door-to-door delivery Mainly refers to the direct delivery of goods to the owner after customs clearance, and the means of transportation is generally a car. (2) Transshipment Mainly refers to the forwarding of goods after customs clearance to the mainland freight forwarding company, and the main modes of transportation are airplane, car, train, water…
Cross-border e-commerce is a new retail model of “Internet + foreign trade”, which has high requirements for product transportation timeliness and product replacement speed. Traditional sea transportation takes a long time. For cross-border e-commerce, the timeliness of the “last mile” is extremely important, which is not only related to the customer’s user experience, but also…