One, postal packet
According to incomplete statistics, China's cross-border electricity business export business 70% of the parcels are delivered through the postal system, of which China Post accounted for about 50% of the share, Hongkong Post, Singapore Post, etc. is also China's cross-border electricity dealers commonly used logistics.
Advantages: The basic network of the postal network is wider than any other logistics channel. Moreover, since the postal government is generally state-owned, there are state tax subsidies, so the price is very cheap.
Disadvantages: generally private way out of the package, not easy to customs statistics, can not enjoy the normal export tax rebate. At the same time, the speed is slower, the packet loss rate is high.
Second, the international express
International Express is mainly UPS, Fedex, DHL, TNT the four giants, including UPS and Fedex headquarters in the United States, DHL headquarters in Germany, TNT is headquartered in the Netherlands. International Express has a high demand for information provision, collection and management, supported by global self-built network and international information system.
Advantages: fast, good service, low packet loss rate, especially sent to Europe and the United States developed countries is very convenient. For example, the use of UPS from China to send the package to the United States, the fastest arrive in 48 hours, TNT sent to Europe generally 3 working days to reach.
Disadvantages: expensive, and the price changes in tariffs. General cross-border electricity sellers only in the customer's strong demand for the case will be used, and will be charged to customers.
Third, green logistics
Cross-border green logistics is generally through the air package way to transport goods to foreign countries, and then through the cooperation of the destination country of domestic delivery, is a more popular way of logistics.
At present, the industry's most common logistics line, including the United States green, the European green, green line, the Russian green, etc., there are many logistics companies launched the Middle East green, South American green. EMS "international E-mail", Sino-Russian green line are cross-border green logistics products launched specific products.
Advantages: focus on large quantities of goods sent to the destination, through the economies of scale to reduce costs, therefore, the price is lower than commercial courier, faster than postal packet, packet loss rate is relatively low.
Disadvantages: compared to postal packets, the cost of freight or a lot of high, but also in the domestic range is relatively limited, covering areas to be expanded.
Four, overseas warehouse
The so-called overseas warehousing service refers to the one-stop control and management service of warehousing, sorting, packaging and delivery of goods provided by the network foreign trade trading platform, logistics service provider independently or collectively for the seller's sales destination. The seller will store the goods to the local warehouse, when the buyer needs, the first time to make a quick response to the timely sorting, packaging and delivery of goods. The whole process includes the first line of transportation, storage management and local distribution of three parts.
At present, due to the many advantages, overseas warehouses become the industry more respected logistics. For example, this year eBay will be overseas as the focus of publicity and promotion, the joint Wan Yi Tong launched Winit US warehouse, British warehouse, German warehouse. Export easy, delivery Quartet and other logistics service providers also vigorously build overseas warehousing system, constantly on-line new products.
Advantages: the use of traditional foreign trade to take the goods to the warehouse, can reduce the cost of logistics; the equivalent of sales in the local, can provide a flexible and reliable return policy to improve the overseas customers to buy confidence; delivery cycle shortened, Can reduce the cross-border logistics defect trading rate. In addition, the overseas warehouse can help sellers to expand sales category, breaking the "big and heavy" development bottleneck.
Disadvantages: not any product is suitable for the use of overseas warehouses, the best stock fast turnover of a single product, or easy to Yahuo. At the same time, the seller in the supply chain management, inventory control, sales management and so put forward higher requirements.