Foreign investment and private, express delivery industry is differentiated from the competition to the "homogenization" of competitive areas. The face of rapidly growing e-business express delivery services, foreign Express finally contain himself, determined to e-commerce market with the private courier share.

E-Commerce Stock Watch cited the huge foreign-funded logistics

September 12, at the "first e-commerce and Express Logistics Conference," the State Post Bureau, deputy director, Wang Yu plays are given such a data: in 2008, China's volume of e-commerce-enabled more than 500 million packages nationwide courier services 1 / 3 the volume of business done by the e-commerce affects. According to chief financial officer Zhang Yong, a well-known shopping site announced the logistics index, first half of 2009 the site online courier parcel number has more than 300 million. Wang Yu times that the e-commerce has become the foundation of modern production and circulation elements of the joint development of the space is huge.

All along, this along with the explosive growth of e-business express delivery market, has been featuring by private courier, express little foreign involvement. However, the company's quality of service delivery network of sellers and buyers has been criticized by the main factors. Currently, some domestic courier companies in order to fight price, service quality is poor, a lot of customer complaints. "Relatively private courier, express the most central of foreign capital has two advantages, first, background management system, the second an aircraft." China's Civil Aviation Management Institute, Associate Professor, China Institute of Logistics and Special Fellow ZOU Jian-jun said. Foreign express very strong back-end management system, which is the private courier can not compete.

Both UPS or Federal Express, each delivery member has a hand-held terminal, from the customer after delivery, whether it is consignee or delivery party at any time can check the location of the goods. Express set up foreign workers from the delivery to each sub-set of the warehouse information system makes foreign express delivery efficiency and transparency of private courier are incomparable. In addition, foreign express delivery companies have their own cargo flights, which is one of their advantage.

Short board foreign-funded logistics network constraints hands and feet

"In the short term, foreign express delivery is not enough to pose a threat to private courier." Courier of a large domestic market, said Zu-bin, director of the summer. Courier's biggest weakness is foreign outlets. Foreign Express network construction cost is much higher than the private express delivery, network sink to the county a high cost for them. Therefore, foreign Express outlets mainly in large cities, the short term will not change. ZOU Jian-jun that foreign express delivery in the current stage will not be network layout to the county level as well as developed regions.

However, the standardization of services to foreign companies is that most elusive of the private courier. Xia Zu-Bin introduced to Federal Express, for example, in addition to the standardization of product packaging, express a unified image, unified service, and even how to take delivery, how to transmit customers, how to communicate with clients, the entire process is broken down into a number of steps, complete standardized service processes.

However, current e-business development is still in its infancy. Customers pay more attention to price, demand is still safe, quick to arrive. Therefore, foreign Express To Cut a large-scale e-commerce market, but also take time.