Cainiao International Express European solution upgraded again, continuing to reduce costs and increase efficiency for merchants

Cross-border merchants have ushered in a new year. With the continuous improvement of cross-border e-commerce infrastructure, more and more overseas consumers are choosing cross-border online shopping. Cross-border logistics, especially overseas last-mile delivery, has received more attention . In order to help cross-border merchants better serve overseas consumers, Cainiao International Express has further upgraded its European full-link products and local solutions, providing customers with one-stop logistics and supply chain services.

Cainiao International Express's full-link products are based on high-quality fixed transportation capacity. For example, Cainiao previously opened a charter flight route from Xi'an, China to Liege, Belgium. It also ensures flexibility through temporary procurement and provides full-link products including express and standard lines, as well as a variety of solutions such as clothing, general cargo, and electric vehicles. Local solutions rely on Cainiao's local logistics network built in Europe. It can not only provide standardized last-mile delivery products, but also customize overseas local logistics solutions, covering pre-port collection, customs declaration, air, sea and rail trunk lines, and post-port customs clearance, land transportation, warehousing, etc., and through overseas warehouse networks, digital logistics hubs (eHub) and the caban network radiating to Europe, it provides solutions from warehousing, packaging, distribution to after-sales service.

"Different customers, or even the same customer at different stages, have different demands for cross-border logistics services, especially overseas local delivery services." A relevant person in charge of Cainiao International Express introduced that taking a domestic brand as an example, the brand already has a stable order volume in Europe, covering countries such as Germany, Switzerland, France, Hungary and the Czech Republic, and hopes to reduce costs while ensuring timeliness through cooperation with Cainiao.

Cainiao combined its unique capabilities to customize a complete set of overseas local logistics solutions for it, including airport ground operation agency, customs clearance, distribution, truck transfer and terminal services. First, cross-border parcels are transported from China to Liege and Budapest through multimodal transport mode, distributed and sorted through Cainiao eHub or distribution center, and then connected to Cainiao's truck network built in Europe, entering the destination country and completing the terminal delivery. It is expected that after connecting to Cainiao, the brand's overseas local delivery costs in Europe will drop by about 5%.

When merchants are in the initial stage and focus on a single country or regional market, Cainiao can combine the advantages of overseas local delivery to reduce costs and speed up delivery. For example, in Spain, after the package enters Madrid Airport, Cainiao completes customs clearance, distribution, transshipment and final delivery. At present, Cainiao's self-operated express delivery network in Spain has covered more than 40 provinces, with delivery range extending to outer islands, and "next-day delivery" in 25 key cities. If merchants stock their goods in overseas warehouses in France, they can also use the logistics network built by Cainiao in France.

After years of accumulation, Cainiao has established logistics infrastructure in Europe, including eHub, air cargo terminals, distribution centers, card-class networks and terminal networks, effectively responding to the characteristics of "small batches", "high frequency" and "fragmentation" of cross-border e-commerce. For example, the Liege eHub not only accelerates the rapid transfer of import and export goods between the airside and landside of the airport, but also centrally handles unloading, customs clearance and sorting. Overseas consumers can not only choose door-to-door delivery, but also pick up the goods themselves through the pickup code.

Cainiao International Express can provide tiered products such as express and standard, standardized last-mile delivery products and customized overseas local solutions for cross-border platforms, independent sites, overseas brands, etc.

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