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▶ Video account attention cross-border navigation At the beginning of the outbreak, offline consumption shrank drastically. Under the influence of the dividends of the e-commerce market, a large number of sellers entered the cross-border e-commerce track, and the number of people in the cross-border logistics and freight forwarding industry also soared. However, as the e-commerce dividends caused by the epidemic fade, coupled with the dramatic changes in the world economic and trade landscape this year and inflation eating into the wallets of overseas consumers, cross-border e-commerce is undoubtedly facing a retrograde situation, and cross-border freight forwarders in it are also unable to escape from this siege. Since the beginning of this year, the chaos in the cross-border freight forwarding industry has turned from a "black swan" to a "gray rhino". Recently, following the incidents of freight forwarders running away with money and operational errors leading to lost items, another leading freight forwarding company in Shenzhen was reported to have been seized by customs due to illegal declaration. A freight forwarder in Shenzhen was seized for illegal declaration! It is learned that recently, a "Situation Notice" issued by a leading freight forwarding company in Shenzhen has swept the cross-border circle. On October 18, the freight forwarding company stated in the "Situation Notice" that it received a booking commission from a company called Shenzhen xx Supply Chain Peer Company in January 2022 to arrange the shipment of 11 shipments . As the destination port has not picked up the goods, as of October 15, 2022, the estimated container overage and storage fees have reached 39.472 million yen (1.943 million yuan) , and are still increasing. ▲ The picture comes from the seller communication group The freight forwarding company mentioned that the Shenzhen xx supply chain company involved attempted to export goods to Japan Amazon in the form of general trade. After the goods arrived at the port, they were seized by the Japanese customs because the declaration did not match the actual situation . This was the main reason for the high container storage fees for this cargo. According to public information from Qichacha, after the incident, the Shenzhen xx supply chain company applied for company divestment on June 24 this year, and significantly reduced the company's registered capital from the original 5 million yuan to 1 million yuan. Some industry insiders analyzed that the company involved was likely preparing in advance to run away or go bankrupt. ▲ The picture comes from Qichacha At present, although the freight forwarding company has tried its best to promote the resolution of the incident, Shenzhen xx Supply Chain Company has not yet completed customs clearance, and the goods are still piled up at the Japanese dock. For this reason, the freight forwarding company issued this "Situation Notice" to charge the cargo owner for customs clearance fees: It is estimated that the cost of completing customs clearance and delivering the above-mentioned goods to the Amazon warehouse will be RMB 290,000 per container .
In the spirit of win-win cooperation and timely stop-loss, if the cargo owner pays the standard advance payment of RMB 200,000/container to the freight forwarding company before 18:00 on October 19, 2022 , the freight forwarding company will immediately arrange the customs clearance and delivery of the above-mentioned goods after the payment is received. In this regard, many sellers have complained: The sellers are the worst off , they have not received the goods, they have paid the shipping fee, and now they have to pay more money.
▲ The picture comes from the seller communication group This situation can't help but remind people of another Shenzhen freight forwarding company that was exposed in June this year to have crowdfunded customs clearance fees from sellers. A freight forwarder in Shenzhen once crowdfunded the customs clearance fees! It was learned that in June this year, according to information revealed by the seller, a Shenzhen freight forwarding company had issued an announcement stating that due to the company's broken capital chain, goods were piled up in the port and a large amount of demurrage fees were generated, which ultimately led to customers' inability to sign for goods in time. The company planned to raise nearly 4 million yuan from its customers for subsequent customs clearance and delivery. ▲ The picture comes from the seller communication group But shortly thereafter, employees of the freight forwarding company revealed that the company had issued a bankruptcy notice. To this day, there has been no news of a successful resolution to this logistics farce, but the incident of "asking sellers to pay for the freight forwarder's mistakes" has happened again, which has caused an uproar in the cross-border circle: “Many logistics companies have run into problems this year.” “Is this asking sellers to pay money to claim their goods?” "It is impossible for such a long chain of cross-border logistics to be free of problems, but with financial strength, it can still be solved. Sellers want cheap prices, and freight forwarders have low profits, so will freight forwarders cover the bottom line?" ▲ The picture comes from the seller communication group In addition, before this, it was also reported that a logistics company in Shenzhen promised to make a low declaration when transporting goods. As a result, the seller's three shipments were all inspected by customs, resulting in heavy losses, which is similar to the current incident. Nowadays, with the recovery of offline consumption abroad and the continued consumption downgrade caused by inflation, the cross-border e-commerce market has become more unpredictable, and cross-border sellers are undoubtedly experiencing a dark time. In such a sluggish industry situation, freight forwarders who fish in troubled waters are still emerging in an endless stream, adding another risk to the market. Here, we would also like to remind all cross-border sellers to be cautious when choosing logistics channels. Instead of pursuing low prices, it is better to check the services, scale, system and transportation efficiency of the freight forwarding company in advance before delivery and consider its business efforts. This is the guarantee to improve the risk resistance of cargo transportation. What do you think about this? Welcome to discuss in the comment area~ |
