More and more hot, cross-border logistics needs to cross the past hurdles

For domestic e-commerce companies that assist brands to go overseas and logistics companies that build basic services, business opportunities and challenges in overseas markets coexist with rivals. A few days ago, Jack Ma, Chairman of the Alibaba Group Board of Directors, announced at the 2018 Global Smart Logistics Summit that Cainiao’s smart logistics backbone network will realize 72 hours of global cargo flow. In fact, when domestic products go abroad with the help of e-commerce, they are faced with difficulties such as the circulation of goods by multiple logistics companies but the inability to share distribution information and the difficulty of controlling the collection cycle, which leads to rising logistics costs and unable to ensure timeliness. E-commerce and logistics companies have become the key to building a collaborative, data-based, and visualized logistics network for brand owners. In overseas markets where the logistics and e-commerce systems are mature, they are fighting for survival space, and the logistics network in emerging markets has been deployed in advance to establish first-mover advantages. Both have become the main lines of my country's cross-border e-commerce business development. Improving the timeliness of distribution is the first threshold that e-commerce companies need to cross when going overseas.

Going to sea is rising

Driven by comprehensive domestic e-commerce and cross-border e-commerce, many domestic products and brands are speeding up to go abroad, and corresponding cross-border logistics systems have also been established. Recently, Ali announced that it will invest hundreds of billions of yuan to promote Cainiao's construction of an intelligent logistics backbone network to shorten the circulation time of commodities around the world.

As a platform for building a logistics network, Cainiao continuously connects warehousing, trunk and branch lines involved in export cross-border e-commerce with terminal distribution companies, and provides high-efficiency and collaborative cross-border logistics for brand companies that rely on Alibaba's e-commerce system to go overseas. Serve. At the same time, JD.com has focused its attention on the construction of overseas warehouses. The international supply chain of JD Logistics has established more than 110 overseas warehouses on five continents. These overseas warehouses have become "bridgeheads" for brands to go abroad and import products from overseas. Real-time update and docking of information such as library, in library, inventory, outbound, and data has been realized.

When comprehensive e-commerce is laying a cross-border logistics network to build a springboard for commodities going abroad, export cross-border e-commerce is favored by capital to continuously obtain funds to expand overseas markets. The "2017 China Export Cross-border E-commerce Development Report" released by the E-commerce Research Center shows that in 2017, China exported 32 cross-border e-commerce, and the financing scale reached 7.127 billion yuan. Export cross-border e-commerce companies such as Tongtuo Technology, Price Chain, and Youkeshu have successively completed mergers and acquisitions, and many capital parties have used private placement or investment to marry export cross-border companies.

With the cooperation of e-commerce companies, brand owners and capital, new channels have been established for export business. According to the "China E-Commerce Report 2017" issued by the Ministry of Commerce, the customs inspection and release of cross-border e-commerce import and export commodities totaled 90.24 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 80.6%. Among them, cross-border e-commerce exports have increasingly become a new channel for Chinese products to open up overseas markets, and cross-border online retail exports have grown by 41.3%. This shows that the popularity of exporting cross-border e-commerce business has continued to increase.