Seize the first pot of gold in cross-border business in 2024: AliExpress semi-hosting is launched, Cainiao International Express continues to increase investment

With the full launch of AliExpress semi-hosting, cross-border merchants are signing up enthusiastically, and Cainiao continues to increase its international express delivery, improving JIT and warehouse-shipping timeliness.

The reporter learned from Cainiao that in order to further improve the logistics fulfillment certainty of AliExpress semi-managed merchants, Cainiao not only provides free door-to-door and one-piece collection services for JIT (Just in Time) merchants, but will also gradually implement daily double-wave collection and night delivery at the collection warehouse. Under the close cooperation between warehouses and distribution, the "high-end version" of JIT, which takes only 48 hours from ordering to collection, storage and delivery, will be piloted in core industrial belts one after another.

In addition, semi-hosted merchants can also seamlessly switch between JIT and domestic warehouse delivery modes. Under the Cainiao Preferred Warehouse Delivery mode, after overseas users place an order and pay, the warehouse will immediately receive the order information and can arrange for the goods to be shipped out within 24 hours, providing merchants with multiple options for worry-free delivery during the Spring Festival.

A semi-managed seller on AliExpress said that almost all employees of the company took a holiday during the Spring Festival. They shipped goods by selecting the best warehouses to prepare goods before the holiday to better ensure the online rate of goods and the final fulfillment time. People rest, goods are shipped, overseas orders are not interrupted, and the Spring Festival is a steady "win", seizing the business opportunities at the beginning of 2024.

At present, Cainiao International Express JIT and warehouse delivery cover 22 cities including Hangzhou, Yiwu, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Taizhou, etc. With the implementation of AliExpress semi-trusteeship, Cainiao's cross-border collection network will cover more cities in core industrial belts.

It is understood that the semi-hosted service is an upgrade of the merchant's self-operated model, and the core is "the platform provides warehouse distribution/logistics (cross-border warehouse delivery/JIT) management services". After joining the semi-hosted service, merchants can continue their original operating methods, including pricing power, shelf sales, etc.; and the platform will provide a series of solutions such as warehouse distribution logistics, exclusive marketing activities, and logistics after-sales services.

As the world's largest cross-border e-commerce logistics company, Cainiao's global smart logistics network covers more than 200 countries and regions. In fiscal year 2023, Cainiao processed more than 1.5 billion cross-border parcels, serving 133 million cross-border consumers and more than 100,000 merchants and brands.

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