Recently, multiple logistics real estate developers in the United Kingdom, Spain, and other countries officially announced that Cainiao is leasing large-area warehouses there, with some leases lasting as long as 10 years.
Especially in Spain, Cainiao rented a 37,000-square-meter warehouse, which was one of the seven largest warehouse property transactions in Spain since last year, triggering reports from local business media.
On April 30, Cainiao Vice President and General Manager of Global Supply Chain Division Shuai Yong introduced that Europe is a key market where Cainiao continues to invest in overseas warehouses and import business. Since this year, it has intensively opened four new warehouses in Europe, located in Daventry, England, Paris, France, Madrid, Spain, and Rochitno, Poland. They serve many of China’s leading cross-border e-commerce platforms and support high-quality “Made in China” products such as sweeping robots and 3D printers to go global.
At the same time, it also supports European cross-border merchants to sell to China through the global supply chain network.
Cainiao also plans to invest in building a batch of climbing robot warehouses in Europe and use self-developed logistics technology to improve warehousing efficiency.
In the first three months of this year, the foreign trade industry showed the characteristics of “not slow in the off-season”.
On social media, many foreign trade factories have reported that foreign trade orders will be weak after the year and will enter the stage of full capacity operation.
Customs statistics show that in the first quarter of this year, my country’s import and export of goods trade reached 11.84 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15%, and the scale hit a record high for the same period in history.
Among them, imports and exports to developed economies such as the European Union maintained overall growth, and the growth rates of imports and exports to ASEAN, Latin America, Africa and other regions were above double digits.
Cainiao data also shows that in the first three months of this year, the outbound volume of Cainiao’s European overseas warehouses surged 32% year-on-year.
Industry insiders believe that from the perspective of the cross-border e-commerce industry, China’s cross-border e-commerce “semi-custodial” model is accelerating penetration in Europe, and high-quality consumer electronics products continue to be recognized by the European market, jointly pushing up the demand for overseas warehouses.
Take Cainiao’s French warehouse serving a leading platform as an example. The warehouse’s overall storage capacity utilization rate in the first quarter was close to saturation, and the demand for replenishment of smart home appliances, 3C digital, automobile and motorcycle parts, furniture and other categories is particularly obvious.
It is reported that as a leading global e-commerce logistics service provider, Cainiao Global Supply Chain has operated more than 50 overseas warehouses in 18 countries and regions in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and other regions, helping brands in auto parts, home furnishings, home appliances, furniture and other industries to accelerate their overseas expansion.
At the same time, relying on China’s largest bonded warehouse, transportation network and abundant cross-border merchant and channel resources, Cainiao is also providing overseas brands and merchants with full-link, full-scenario logistics supply chain services that connect overseas factories and domestic consumers.
“Intelligent Manufacturing in China” is continuously expanding the global market with the help of Cainiao’s overseas warehouses, and China’s foreign trade market is also developing well, contributing important forces to the recovery and development of the global economy.
In the future, as Cainiao and other companies continue to invest and innovate in overseas warehouse business, “Intelligent Manufacturing in China” is expected to shine even more dazzlingly on the world stage.
