The full name of FBA is Fulfillment by Amazon, which is a consignment service provided by Amazon. That is, the seller first sends the products to Amazon FBA warehouse, and then Amazon provides one-stop logistics services such as warehousing, picking and packaging, distribution, collection, customer service, and return processing. At the same time, Amazon will charge a certain fee. For example, if the seller's main sales market is in the United States, the seller can choose to send the goods to Amazon's FBA warehouse in the United States.

What is the first step of FBA?

Amazon FBA only provides warehousing and distribution services locally, so if some domestic sellers want to ship their goods to local FBA warehouses abroad, they need to use FBA's first service.

Amazon FBA first service: domestic logistics service providers are responsible for delivering the seller's goods to Amazon FBA warehouse, and providing a series of services such as customs clearance and tax payment.

In other words, it is to help sellers using FBA services of Amazon's global store opening project transport their goods from China to Amazon warehouses designated by Germany, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Japan and other countries through air/express/sea transportation, and provide corresponding value-added services to help sellers using FBA services of Amazon's global store opening project transport their goods from China to the United States Amazon warehouse services in the UK.

What are the first transportation modes of Amazon FBA?

🚩International express

International express delivery refers to the express delivery and logistics business conducted between two or more countries (or regions). Currently, the world's largest international express companies include DHL, UPS, FEDEX, OCS, EMS, etc. Each international express company has its own advantageous routes. Some Southeast Asian countries transport goods to Hong Kong, China faster and cheaper; Some of them have their own land transport systems in Europe, so it is cheap and the speed is OK to travel from Europe to Hong Kong, China. The express delivery in America is FEDEX and UPS

International express has the characteristics of flexibility, wide delivery range, fast timeliness and high price. It is one of the most commonly used cross-border logistics transportation modes for small and medium-sized sellers of cross-border e-commerce.

Air freight refers to a logistics mode in which the freight forwarder directly delivers goods to the destination country through its own channels, and then the freight forwarder's cooperative delivery agency in the destination country delivers the goods. If FBA uses air transportation for the first journey, the cost will be relatively expensive, and there is a fixed flight time. It will arrive in about 10 days when it is sent to Europe.

Air transportation takes a long time because the airlines need to gather or arrange bulk cargo to save transportation costs, so they will delay for some time. In terms of safety, it is relatively safe for FBA to use air transportation for the first time.

International maritime transport, also known as "international marine cargo transport", is the most important mode of transport in international logistics. It refers to a way of using ships to transport goods between ports in different countries and regions through sea lanes, which is most widely used in international cargo transport.

At present, more than 2/3 of the total volume of international trade and about 90% of the total volume of China's import and export freight transport are completed by sea transport. Sea transportation has changed the world trade greatly.

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