Recently, in the cross-border e-commerce warehouse of Weihai Yunzhou Supply Chain Co., Ltd. in the south area of Shandong Weihai Comprehensive Bonded Zone, a variety of goods are placed on the neat shelves, and the staff is busy shuttling between the shelves with work documents, and the goods are packed into packages after tallying, shelving, sorting and other operations to wait for customs formalities and shipment.
"The volume of export cross-border e-commerce business has grown rapidly, far exceeding our expectations." Cui Zhaojun, manager of the company's export department, said that as the official cooperative warehouse of South Korea's largest e-commerce company in China, the company has certain advantages in the development of export e-commerce. But when the warehouse first opened a year ago, there were only a few hundred items in the stocking warehouse. Today, there are 45,000 items in the stocking warehouse, with a total of 547,000 items.
Weihai is located at the easternmost tip of the Jiaodong Peninsula, with the location advantage adjacent to South Korea, shipping liners can achieve "sunset arrival", export e-commerce enterprises can enjoy the unique advantages of "price of sea freight, speed of air freight", and the development of cross-border e-commerce industry between China and South Korea has unique superior conditions.
"In addition to geographical conditions, the support of customs to us is an important factor in attracting Korean e-commerce companies to settle in the comprehensive bonded zone." Cui Zhaojun said that the customs has taken the initiative to dock many times, talk about policies, send services, listen to opinions and solve problems, which also laid a solid foundation for the e-commerce company to set up the first cross-border e-commerce bonded warehouse in China last year.
Gu Rui, director of Weihai Customs Office in Wendeng, said that the customs office appointed a liaison officer of customs enterprises to guide the enterprise in business, and handle its warehouse establishment, account book approval, equipment into the area and other businesses as soon as possible. At the same time, coordinate various departments to actively cooperate with the enterprise to carry out system debugging to ensure the smooth development of all business of the enterprise.
"Since the project landed, we have made good use of various policies to benefit enterprises." Gu Rui introduced that Weihai Customs has guided enterprises to make good use of convenient policies such as convenient entry and exit of comprehensive bonded zones, classification and supervision of warehousing goods according to state, and has repeatedly sent personnel to enterprises to conduct field investigations to solve various problems encountered by enterprises in the process of handling customs business. Especially at the special time nodes of e-commerce promotions such as "Double 11" and "June 18", the customs took the initiative to communicate with enterprises, study and judge the situation in advance, and do a good job in customs clearance protection measures.
"Our business volume has grown from less than 1,000 orders per day in the early days to an average of 12,000 orders per day now." Cui Zhaojun said that under the guarantee of various customs clearance logistics, the peak number of orders during the promotion period exceeded 20,000, and Korean cross-border e-commerce enterprises are planning to take advantage of the advantages of Weihai Comprehensive Bonded Zone to further enrich the functions of warehouse business and create a cross-border e-commerce bonded warehouse integrating bonded logistics, cross-border e-commerce, entrepot trade and other functions.
While doing a good job in daily supervision and services, Weihai Customs pays attention to innovating the supervision model in combination with the actual situation of enterprises, formulates the "1210" bonded e-commerce and "9610" direct purchase e-commerce consolidation supervision scheme, realizes the "dual-mode one-stop" service, synchronously optimizes the emergency business disposal process, better meets the characteristics of "many and scattered" and "small and urgent" cross-border e-commerce goods, and promotes the high-quality development of cross-border e-commerce in Weihai.
Up to now, 7 cross-border e-commerce bonded warehouses have gathered in Weihai Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, and the cumulative number of commodity categories in the stocking warehouses has reached 82,000, with a total of more than 5 million pieces. Since the beginning of this year, Weihai Comprehensive Bonded Zone has exported nearly 6 million e-commerce goods. (Zhang Wei/Wen)