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Since the beginning of this year, China's cross-border e-commerce trade has continued to grow steadily. The coordinated linkage between cross-border e-commerce and new foreign trade infrastructure such as overseas warehouses reduces intermediate links and direct access to consumers, promoting the optimization of foreign trade structure and stable scale.

At 8:30 am local time, in front of Warehouse 3 in the overseas warehouse of the barn located in Dusseldorf, Germany, rows of container trucks were neatly arranged, waiting to unload and enter the warehouse. Warehouse Master Lei quickly walked into the office, changed his work clothes, and evaluated the daily workload.

At the 9am morning meeting, the personnel required for each process were assigned, and the day's work began.

At 9:40, the first truck was ready to depart. The goods on this vehicle will be shipped to various parts of Germany and neighboring countries through the transfer center, "said Shi Lei. The overseas warehouse has a clear positioning and function, and is an important logistics node connecting the domestic and international supply chains.

With overseas warehouses, the efficiency of foreign trade enterprises going global has greatly improved.

The logistics time has been doubled and shortened. In the past, merchants stocked goods domestically, and customers placed orders before shipping them from China to their final destination. Even if it was air freight, it would take 5 to 10 days to arrive in Germany. Nowadays, preparing goods in advance to overseas warehouses and sending packages to Berlin can achieve next day or next day delivery after leaving the warehouse, which is comparable to the logistics efficiency in China.

The overall cost has significantly decreased. Cross border warehousing and logistics for foreign trade can be roughly divided into three stages: the first stage is port to port transportation, the middle stage is overseas storage, and the last stage is overseas delivery to the doorstep. "Shi Lei explained that the first stage usually uses container shipping, which can carry a large amount of goods at once, thereby reducing the unit freight cost. Overseas warehousing improves operational efficiency and inventory turnover through refined operations, customized warehouses, and professional warehouse services, thereby reducing costs. Due to the proximity of goods to end consumers, the delivery process, especially multi warehouse combined delivery, has lower costs; Moreover, large overseas warehouses have strong bargaining power with local terminal delivery service providers, further reducing overall operating costs.

The service chain is more complete. The difficulty of returning goods is a major challenge for foreign trade enterprises, and overseas warehouses have effectively solved this problem. Taking clothing exports with high frequency of returns and exchanges as an example, without the support of overseas warehouses, returns involve the entry of goods, and the process is long and complicated. Many merchants choose to give up returning goods, resulting in resource waste. Now, they only need to return the goods to overseas warehouses and then allocate them.

Currently, the competition in the international trade market is becoming increasingly fierce. How can we help foreign trade enterprises cultivate new competitive advantages?

The barn divides storage into categories such as standard, intelligent, high-value, and large items, with different storage conditions and management methods for different types. Taking large items as an example, in order to meet the delivery needs of customers in multiple online and offline scenarios, the barn has built its own self operated truck delivery capacity; In the intelligent warehouse, heavy-duty lifting robots and box type storage robots collaborate on site, doubling operational efficiency. During last year's peak season, the outbound capacity of German smart warehouses reached a daily peak of 20000 orders.

Our goal is to become a comprehensive end-to-end fulfillment supply chain service provider, "said Chen Huahui, General Manager of Guocang Overseas Warehouse. In recent years, Guocang Overseas Warehouse has expanded its business in China, including picking up and receiving goods, mainline transportation, customs clearance and declaration, while continuing to optimize overseas truck services, enhance mainline and end of pipe delivery capabilities, and reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Nowadays, the barn has a total of 170000 square meters of overseas warehouses in Germany, with over 4 million packages shipped out in the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of about 40%. Looking at the world, "we have established self operated overseas warehouses of over 1.6 million square meters in more than 30 countries, serving over 20000 enterprise level customers," said Chen Huahui.