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In recent years, with the development of the global economy and the rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce, consolidated shipping has become a new and popular choice for cross-border e-commerce logistics and distribution due to its advantages such as reducing costs and improving efficiency. But as the saying goes: the rise of any emerging industry is always accompanied by risks. While container shipping has gradually become a new trend in the global logistics industry, risks have also followed. It is learned that since the second half of last year, many sellers using China-Europe consolidated shipping have experienced cargo detention, and have not yet received news of the resumption of normal delivery of goods, and the normal transaction of orders has been seriously affected. Recently, a seller in the industry revealed that after investigation and statistics, many freight forwarders with stranded goods since November last year were related to Shenzhen *Tai Supply Chain Company . The logistics company was suddenly hit by a financial problem, and all the goods were detained in the overseas warehouse and could not be processed, requiring sellers to pay to redeem the goods. According to Qichacha, Shenzhen *Tai is located in Shenzhen and was established in June 2020. Since March 2023, Shenzhen *Tai has been involved in more than a dozen lawsuits, most of which are defendants. A logistics person mentioned that its main business was cross-border e-commerce logistics at the beginning. After the outbreak of the epidemic, the e-commerce dividend turned to consolidated logistics. According to people familiar with the matter, several freight forwarders and sellers have had their goods shipped by this logistics company stranded for months (they were declared in November last year and still not delivered in March this year): "The freight forwarder said that *Thailand doesn't have the money to get this batch of goods out, and it's not possible to pay the UPS shipping fee myself." "Mine has been almost four months old and I have changed it twice, but the freight forwarder won't even compensate me, saying they don't cover the delivery time." "A freight forwarder went to pick it up, and *Tai gave a fake warehouse address, and continued to give a fake address after questioning." Because the person in charge of Shenzhen * Tai could not be contacted, a logistics company sent it a notice letter at the end of February this year, claiming that it had not received a reply or payment from Shenzhen * Tai so far, and would auction Shenzhen * Tai's goods in the logistics company to offset the accounts receivable. In recent years, cross-border logistics have been plagued by chaos, and it has evolved from a "black swan" to a "gray rhino": incidents such as running away due to overdue customs clearance fees and illegal declarations leading to the detention of goods are common, often causing the sellers involved to lose both money and goods and have no way to protect their rights. Therefore, after the news broke, many sellers speculated that Shenzhen *Tai had gone bankrupt and ran away. But a few days ago, Shenzhen *Tai Supply Chain Co., Ltd. responded to this. It is learned that recently, Shenzhen *Tai Supply Chain issued a statement on the recent rumors about the backlog of containers, claiming that it did encounter financial difficulties, but did not run away, nor did it ask customers to pay a second time. It is still operating normally and actively dealing with the backlog of containers abroad. In the statement, Shenzhen *Tai revealed that it had encountered many inspection storms, which led to the company's financial difficulties: In December 2022, the Czech Tax Bureau was involved in a cargo seizure incident, and Shenzhen *Tai seized several containers, with a total loss of more than 5 million yuan. In February 2023, Belgium inspected an Amazon general cargo container and ordered compensation of more than 800,000 yuan; Poland inspected two containers and ordered compensation of about 1.2 million yuan; in August of the same year, the Polish, Dutch and Hamburg customs inspected five containers, and the total amount of detention fees, storage fees, inspection fees, etc. was about 1.5 million yuan. - In October 2023, the inspection rates in Hamburg, Poland, and Hungary soared, and the customs clearance agencies that Shenzhen*Tai cooperated with all stopped accepting orders, resulting in hundreds of thousands of demurrage fees . In December of the same year, due to the long storage time of the containers at the terminal and the high inspection rate, the customs clearance fee and demurrage cost of each container rose. The bills were not paid in time, and the containers were temporarily detained by the customs clearance agency.
The surge in inspection rates in Poland and Hungary in October 2023 mentioned in it is the origin of the freight forwarding bankruptcy incident that has been circulating. Shenzhen *Tai said that some customers who owed money took the notice from the customs clearance agency and made a big fuss, claiming that *Tai had collapsed and the cabinets were auctioned off by the customs clearance agency. They also set up a so-called "*Tai redemption group", saying that as long as customers paid a redemption fee of 20 yuan/KG, it would help customers redeem their goods. But in fact, Shenzhen *Tai did not run away and is still operating normally. At the same time, Shenzhen *Tai also claimed that it had worked out the following plan to deal with the backlog of cabinets abroad: Customers who owe money will first make up the amount they owe, and *Tai will then borrow some money from some customers in their personal name to pay for foreign customs clearance and courier fees. If there is still a gap in the amount, the owner of each container will make up part of the fee, and *Tai will solve these containers in the form of individual IOUs. However, based on current feedback from the industry, most sellers remain skeptical about the above response. On March 5, after Shenzhen * Tai issued a statement, multiple sellers reported on social platforms that the logistics information had finally been updated, which was consistent with Shenzhen * Tai’s description, showing that the goods were temporarily detained by the customs clearance agency. However, some sellers have observed sharply that these goods not only have different batches, but also different transportation methods and routes, but their logistics status was uniformly updated on March 5. They suspect that Shenzhen *Tai used "one-click batch modification". Some sellers also believe that Shenzhen *Tai owes the overseas warehouse money and cannot pay it back. The overseas warehouse withheld the goods and asked *Tai to collect all the money before delivering the goods. *Tai said that the freight forwarder owed them money so they owed the overseas warehouse, but the freight forwarder said that they did not owe *Tai money at all. It felt like they were just playing against each other, and in the end, the only ones who got hurt were the sellers. As of press time, there were even freight forwarders taking advantage of the situation and setting up groups to demand sellers pay money to redeem the goods. At present, it is still full of unknowns whether this logistics farce can be successfully resolved, but it has once again sounded the alarm for cross-border sellers. As overseas customs clearance procedures become stricter, we would like to remind all sellers to keep their eyes open when choosing logistics channels. They should first investigate the business qualifications of the logistics company, have an in-depth understanding of its strength background and risk resistance, and list compliance as an important inspection item to avoid affecting the rhythm of stocking due to its sudden failure. Do you have any updated news to share about the above content? Welcome to discuss in the comment section~
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