China News Service, Fuzhou, November 16 (Wang Xiaoxia) "This year's "Double Eleven" shipments to Taiwan by sea are particularly large. On the day of "Double Eleven" alone, the number reached 260,000, which is 20 times the usual number. "Fujian Rongdatong Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. Chairman Chen Jian told reporters on the 16th that the "Double Eleven" express delivery boom will continue until the end of November and is expected to reach more than 700,000 items.
On the same day, the reporter went to the shipping warehouse in Kuaian, Fuzhou, and saw that there were more than 1,000 sets of shelves in the 7,000-square-meter warehouse, full of "Double Eleven" shipments that were about to be sent to Taiwan; nearly two hundred people. Workers are busy receiving, warehousing, sorting, and putting on shelves.
Although the "Double Eleven" shopping festival has ended for nearly a week, this sea express shipment to Taiwan's container warehouse is still in its peak period.
Facing the full warehouse in front of him and the constant shipments from all over the mainland, Chen Jian said: "Don't look at such a full warehouse, we can quickly digest it now."
On October 27 this year, the Mawei-Taiwan cross-border e-commerce cargo direct shipping line opened.
Since then, the route will provide cross-border e-commerce companies on both sides of the Strait with direct two-way shipping trunk logistics services between Mawei in Fuzhou and major ports in Taiwan such as Taipei, Keelung, and Kaohsiung.
"After the direct flight line is opened, you can reach Taipei in 12 hours from Mawei." Chen Jian said that before the direct flight line is opened, goods need to be transferred to other ports for dispatch, which invisibly increases a lot of time and cost; In the past, it took 7 to 10 days for Taiwan compatriots to place an order from the mainland e-commerce platform to the shipping warehouse, and then send it to the Taiwan compatriots. Now, direct flights from Mawei take only 3 to 5 days from the order to the receipt. This provides strong logistics support for Taiwan compatriots to share the convenience of mainland e-commerce.
Not only that, in order to promote the upstream and downstream linkages of the warehouse, customs, dry, and distribution supply chains, Fujian Rongdatong Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. has also set up storage bases in Mawei and Taiwan.
The opening of the direct dedicated line will not only reduce shipping time, but also reduce the cost of maritime transportation for cross-strait e-commerce companies, and further promote cross-strait economic and trade exchanges and cooperation.
Since 2015, the Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone has carried out cross-strait shipping express services on a pilot basis, using sea ships to carry express mails, using containers as transportation containers, instead of air transportation, and reducing cross-strait express transportation costs by 50% to 60%, showing that " Sea freight price, air freight timeliness" advantage.
Mawei has a unique advantage in developing cross-strait shipping express business.
The relevant person in charge of the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Mawei District said that Mawei District will use the opening of the direct cargo shipping line as an opportunity to accelerate the unimpeded economic and trade cooperation, infrastructure connectivity, energy and resource interconnection, and industry standards to better benefit compatriots on both sides of the strait. The first home for Taiwanese compatriots and Taiwanese enterprises to land.
As the policy dividend of the pilot free trade zone is highlighted, the cross-strait shipping express business continues to rise, creating fast and affordable logistics services for Taiwan compatriots to share the convenience of "e-commerce".
The annual "Double 11" has become popular from the mainland to the other side of the Taiwan Strait, becoming the favorite shopping festival for consumers across Taiwan, and it has strengthened the confidence of cross-strait express service practitioners.
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