In this shipping guide article, we introduce you to the features, advantages and disadvantages of ecommerce dedicated lines to help you understand how to choose an ecommerce dedicated line. For the convenience of our readers, we have divided this guide into 4 parts：
Part 1. What is ecommerce dedicated line?
Part 2. Ecommerce dedicated line advantages
- Cost-Effective
- Fewer Shipping Restrictions
- Efficient Customs Clearance
Part 3. Ecommerce dedicated line disadvantages
- Low Compensation
- Unscheduled Flights
Part 4. What ecommerce dedicated line products are available?
- United States Dedicated Line
- Europe Dedicated Line
- United Kingdom Dedicated Line
- France Dedicated Line
- Germany Dedicated Line
- Italy Dedicated Line
- Canada Dedicated Line
- Australia Dedicated Line
- New Zealand Dedicated Line
- Mexico Dedicated Line
- Brazil Dedicated Line
- South Africa Dedicated Line
Part 1. What is ecommerce dedicated line?
Ecommerce dedicated line refers to airfreighting goods from China to the destination country, and then delivering them to customers through the express company in the destination country. It is characterized by putting different customers and scattered goods together first, combining them into one large cargo, then airfreight to the destination country, and then splitting and delivering. This can effectively reduce the cost of air freight through the advantage of scale. Therefore, it has the advantages of fast time efficiency, cheap price, low parcel loss rate and strong customs clearance ability. It is the first choice for international ecommerce logistics channel.
Part 2. Ecommerce dedicated line advantages
- Cost-Effective
Ecommerce dedicated line is an economical and efficient logistics channel, mainly in two aspects: First, ecommerce dedicated line is faster than postal parcel and slower than international express. Second, the shipping cost of ecommerce dedicated line is about the same as postal parcel, cheaper than international express. In general, ecommerce dedicated lines are more balanced in terms of time efficiency and freight costs.
- Fewer Shipping Restrictions
There are more varieties of goods that can be sent by ecommerce dedicated lines, which can meet the transportation needs of different product types. Such as: battery products, magnetic products, cosmetics, liquids and other items, there are corresponding transport channels.
- Efficient Customs Clearance
Most of the ecommerce dedicated lines use the duty prepayment mode (DDP), which can improve the efficiency of customs clearance of goods and solve the seller’s concern about customs clearance, and the efficiency of customs clearance of this link has been improved, and the overall logistics time efficiency has been improved.
Part 3. Ecommerce dedicated line disadvantages
- Low Compensation
Ecommerce dedicated line delivery is usually delivered by the local post office in the destination country. Due to the low compensation standard of postal service, it is not recommended to send valuable goods.
- Unscheduled Flights
Ecommerce dedicated lines are shipped centrally according to the volume of goods, and many logistics companies do not fix flights in order to save transportation costs. Generally, flights are scheduled for delivery only after the estimated volume and weight of the cargo is received. Therefore, the timeliness of the goods may be affected.
Part 4. What ecommerce dedicated line products are available?
- United States Dedicated Line
United States Dedicated Line provides shipping services from China to the United States. This channel is a joint USPS and DHL special line service to meet customers’ requirements for price, timeliness and service. Transported by DHL’s flights to the local US, with USPS network delivery and commercial customs clearance.
- Europe Dedicated Line
Europe Dedicated Line provides shipping services from China to Europe. It not only focuses on the delivery of small and medium-sized parcels in major European countries, but also can be delivered to North and South America and other regions. It is more economical compared with international express, faster compared with EMS, and safer compared with postal parcel.
- United Kingdom Dedicated Line
UK Dedicated Line is a logistics service from China to the UK launched by our company in cooperation with YODEL. The UK Dedicated Line adopts the way of advance customs clearance, the parcel information is sent to the UK customs before the goods, and the goods can be cleared and dispatched immediately after arriving in the UK, which greatly improves the speed of parcel customs clearance. It is suitable for delivery of goods with high requirements of timeliness.
- France Dedicated Line
France Dedicated Line is through the integration of Chinese and French express resources, the goods in the domestic centralized sorting, with direct flights to Hong Kong, by the French postal network delivery, the entire time efficiency is fast, 5-9 working days to complete the delivery.
- Germany Dedicated Line
Germany Dedicated Line provides shipping services from China to Germany. This channel is a dedicated service launched in cooperation with DHL to meet customers’ requirements for price, timeliness and service. Air transportation to Germany local and dispatched by DHL network.
- Italy Dedicated Line
Italy Dedicated Line uses the high quality flight resources of Hong Kong to fly directly to Italy, after commercial customs clearance, it is handed over to Italy Post for delivery, the whole process is fast and the delivery can be completed in 6-9 working days.
- Canada Dedicated Line
Canada Dedicated Line takes advantage of Hong Kong’s high quality airfreight resources and Canadian customs clearance to create a Canada Dedicated Line service with fast timeliness and strong customs clearance for cross-border e-commerce sellers. The service is flown directly from Hong Kong, with stable timeliness, high delivery rate, and provides the whole track information inquiry, which is a guarantee choice for customers to deliver Canadian parcels.
- Australia Dedicated Line
Australia Dedicated Line is an international special line logistics service opened by our company in cooperation with Australia Post. This service takes advantage of Hong Kong’s high quality air freight resources and Australia Post’s customs clearance to create a special cross-border e-commerce parcel service with fast timeliness and strong customs clearance. It is suitable for transporting high-value items with high requirements of timeliness.
- New Zealand Dedicated Line
New Zealand dedicated line uses the high quality flight resources of Hong Kong to fly directly to New Zealand, after the commercial customs clearance to New Zealand Post for delivery. 6-11 working days to complete the proper delivery.
- Mexico Dedicated Line
Mexico Dedicated Line is a direct mail service from China to Mexico. The service flies directly from Hong Kong to Mexico, and after local customs clearance is completed, the service is handed over to local Redpack Express for delivery, which is fast and has a high delivery rate.
- Brazil Dedicated Line
Brazil Dedicated Line utilizes the quality flight resources of Hong Kong to fly directly to Brazil, and after commercial customs clearance, it is handed over to Brazilian local courier for delivery. It is a high-quality logistics service tailored for cross-border B2C e-commerce sellers. The whole process is fast, 15-20 days to complete the delivery.
- South Africa Dedicated Line
South Africa Dedicated Line uses Hong Kong’s high quality flight resources to fly directly to South Africa, after commercial customs clearance to South Africa local courier delivery. 7-15 working days to complete the proper delivery.
FAQ
International express refers to the express, logistics business between two or more countries (or regions). The business of delivering letters, commercial documents and goods between countries and countries (or regions), that is, through the border crossing between countries and customs clearance of express delivery. International express mail arrives at the destination country, the need to re-transfer in the destination country in order to send the express mail to the final destination, known as international express. Usually refers to : DHL, FEDEX, UPS.
Ecommerce dedicated line refers to Chinese logistics enterprises integrating global resources, cooperating with foreign courier companies, sorting goods in China, then airfreight to the destination country, and finally completing customs clearance and delivery. Line channels to specific countries, such as the United States dedicated line, Europe dedicated line and other international dedicated line, there are air, sea, rail transport and other ways.
