Thousands of years ago, caravans with jingling camel bells supported the prosperity of trade along the ancient Silk Road. Today, "truck caravans" travel north along the China-Europe Highway from Dongguan, China, and cross the Eurasian continent with cross-border goods, continuing the accelerated "Express Silk Road".

On October 26, in order to provide multiple cross-border logistics guarantees for global shopping festivals such as "Double 11", Black Friday, Thanksgiving and other peak seasons, Cainiao officially launched the "Dongguan-Liege" route of the China-Europe Highway, which can reach Belgium in the fastest two weeks. The trucks pass through six domestic provinces and six overseas countries, and the whole journey is expected to exceed 10,000 kilometers. At present, Cainiao road transport departs every day, and the cargo volume of some routes has increased by more than 100%.

With the arrival of the cross-border peak season, a large number of domestic cosmetics, mobile phones, electric blankets, batteries, resistance panels, solar panels and other special categories will reach European consumers via the Cainiao China-Europe Highway. After the package arrives at the distribution center of Cainiao Liege eHub, it will be transported to more than 20 European countries through Cainiao's efficient terminal distribution network. Merchants can also carry out overseas warehouse stocking and international trade transportation through road transportation.

Compared with sea and air transportation, road transportation covers a wider range of categories and has relatively fewer restrictions, and can support the transportation of special categories such as pure electricity, powder, and liquid. In terms of cost and timeliness, European-to-Europe highways are more stable than shipping and railways, usually about 10 days faster, and the cost is lower than air transport.

"Road transport is more time-efficient than sea transport and more cost-effective than air transport. It is a stable, efficient and inclusive cross-border logistics solution to Europe." Liu Xinyang, general manager of Cainiao International Export Logistics Division, told reporters that road transport Transportation not only supports LCL for small and medium-sized businesses, but also provides flexible daily delivery. The whole process is guarded by the "Big Dipper Tracking System", so that each cross-border package has its own "satellite". In the background of the system, merchants can visually track the current location, driving trajectory, and stay time of the package in real time.

AGM is a Chinese outdoor mobile phone brand. The self-developed low-temperature "black technology" allows mobile phones to be used normally at temperatures of minus 60 degrees. It has become a domestic "antifreeze" mobile phone that is exported to more than 100 countries and regions overseas. "This year, the sales of our outdoor mobile phones in Europe have increased by more than 30%. It is no exaggeration to say that Cainiao International Express has brought our products to the sky, and has also experienced severe cold and heat." Sun, head of e-commerce, AGM outdoor mobile phone brand merchants Mr. Chen told reporters that Cainiao had solved the transportation problem of special categories in the Middle East before, and the cross-border land transportation service of China-Europe Highway will further solve the problem of cross-border transportation of pure electric and live products.

At the event, Liu Xinyang said that with China's e-commerce entering the era of globalization, Chinese express delivery companies ushered in the best time to go overseas. Cainiao conducts refined operations on the entire link of cross-border parcels, and can provide diversified cross-border logistics solutions for cross-border e-commerce platforms, independent stations and overseas brands, including standardized and multi-level international express logistics products. For example, the cost-effective 10-day delivery of $5, the high-time delivery of $10 on 5-day delivery, and the Pratt & Whitney 20-day delivery of $2, use the price of a cup of coffee to make "Made in China" goods around the world.

This year's Tmall Double 11 Shopping Festival is the first time that it will be sold at the same time globally, and Alibaba's more than 1.3 billion consumers around the world will share the joy of receiving express delivery at the same frequency. To this end, Cainiao announced six major safeguard measures for export logistics, including the opening of five global distribution centers, capacity guarantee for over 3,000 flights, and overseas warehouse stocking covering more than 30 countries, etc., to ensure that global consumers can receive timely receipts during Double 11 and cross-border peak seasons. goods.

Up to now, the stocking of domestic preferred warehouses has increased by more than 300% year-on-year, and the stocking of overseas warehouses in emerging markets in the Middle East and Latin America has increased by more than 200% year-on-year. Cainiao has more than 15 overseas warehouses in Europe. European consumers can receive the goods that the merchants stocked in the overseas warehouses as soon as 2 days, and some cities can even achieve same-day or next-day delivery.

Pineapple Jun is a typical domestic and foreign trade enterprise, focusing on sports rehabilitation products such as fascia guns. With the continuous expansion of Pineapple Jun's product line and business line, the use of Cainiao international logistics services has gradually increased, including cross-border direct hair. , overseas warehouses and domestic freight, etc. "The core of cross-border logistics has two parts, one is cost and the other is safety." Mr. Li, head of Pineapple Jun's cross-border business, said that small and medium-sized businesses often do not have the ability to build their own logistics systems and get the prices of common logistics products on the market. It is also relatively high, and the products and services provided by some freight forwarders and small logistics providers are not guaranteed, and the package is easy to lose.

Since most of the products are "charged and magnetic", and the cross-border delivery process is completely different from domestic retail, when the cross-border warehousing system was initially built, the wrong goods were often sent, and the self-built factory did not give priority to logistics, nor did it Within the scope of collection of logistics service providers, it is impossible to provide certain and stable logistics services to overseas consumers.

"In the second half of last year, I came into contact with the rookie preferred warehouse. On the one hand, the preferred warehouse operation process is simple. We only need to stock up the goods in the warehouse, and the subsequent orders will be automatically processed by the preferred warehouse, which not only saves manpower, but also improves the delivery efficiency. Let us focus more on the product side and the operation side." Mr. Li told reporters that, especially for cross-border new products, due to the lack of data support, he did not dare to rush to stock overseas warehouses, and preferred warehouses provided more choices.

It is understood that Cainiao is a global industrial Internet company driven by customer value. At present, Cainiao has deployed 6 smart logistics hubs around the world, operates more than 3 million square meters of cross-border logistics warehouses, and has more than 240 charter planes for trunk transportation every month. A high-quality global logistics network.