1、In 2023, Amazon will account for 40% of all e-commerce in the United States

According to Marketplace Pulse, Amazon will account for 80 percent of U.S. market sales, 40 percent of e-commerce sales and 4 percent of retail sales in 2023.

eMaketer predicts that Amazon will have 72.4% of the U.S. market share in 2023 and 39.6% of retail e-commerce sales. Walmart's retail e-commerce sales are far behind Amazon's and will account for 7.4 percent of U.S. retail e-commerce sales in 2023. Amazon still dominates the U.S. e-commerce space.

Source: Cross-border e-commerce logistics Baixiaosheng collation

2. SHEIN has covered 300+ urban industrial belts

On April 12, it was announced that since 2021, when SHEIN began to explore the platform, more than 300 city industrial belts from more than 20 provinces have settled in the SHEIN platform, covering mainstream industrial belts such as bags, clothing, underwear, small goods, toys, shoes, and jewelry. In Guangdong Province, where the SHEIN supply chain center is located, the SHEIN platform has achieved full coverage of 21 prefecture-level city industrial belts.

In order to better drive sellers to the sea and long-term sustainable development, SHEIN in the previous seller full life cycle growth enabling system, once again strengthen the "new excellent business" support, launched the "new business 90 days growth training camp" and "excellent business support plan", committed to providing sellers with refined and systematic cross-border e-commerce solutions.

Source: SHEIN

3. Aliexpress and TEMU rank second and third in the number of users in Korea

On April 12, AliExpress semi-managed 100 days on the line, and revealed the latest report card: last month alone, there were 20,000 business orders doubled. At the beginning of the New Year in 2024, AliExpress took the lead in firing the starting gun of semi-hosting to help merchants upgrade logistics services at a lower cost, opening the door for small and medium-sized sellers and brand merchants with rich categories. Now AliExpress itself is also increasing investment, preparing for the "10 billion subsidy brand to go to sea" plan, so that more businesses can benefit.

Source: 36 kr

4. Us media: Chinese airlines will increase belly capacity to the United States

On April 12, the U.S. Department of Transportation authorized Chinese airlines to increase the number of weekly flights between China and the United States from 35 to 50 starting in April. With the approval to expand operations, Chinese airlines will increase their belly capacity to the United States in April, with Air China operating 14 weekly flights, China Southern 10, China Eastern 12, Xiamen Airlines 5, Hainan Airlines 6 and Sichuan Airlines 3.

However, the recovery of U.S. airline flights to China has been slower. The three major U.S. airlines said in March that many flights to China would be delayed until at least the end of October. American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines received authorization from the U.S. Department of Transportation to delay the resumption of nearly 100 weekly flights to China for an additional 90 days, according to regulatory filings.

Source: Cross-border e-commerce logistics Baixiaosheng collation

5, Zhengzhou to the Philippines international cargo line opened

On April 12, a Tianjin Cargo Airlines B737 all-cargo plane set down at Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport on April 9 and flew to Clark International Airport in the Philippines with full e-commerce packages at 21 o 'clock on the same day, marking the official opening of Tianjin Cargo Airlines Zhengzhou to the Philippines cargo route. The route is chartered by China logistics group International Express Supply Chain Management Co., LTD., which mainly carries domestic express, fresh cold chain and cross-border e-commerce goods. It is planned to carry out 2 classes regularly every week, and each round-trip flight can load more than 30 tons of goods.

Source: Air Cargo Information Express

6, France Post Group will build China Western Air transport (distribution) center

April 12 news, Xixian New District Airport New City and France Post DPD Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement, will open Xi 'an to Budapest, Hungary all cargo routes, the construction of China's western air transport (distribution) center. It is understood that Xi 'an to Budapest full cargo regular route plan to implement 104 flights per year, 2 flights per week, will bring about 6,000 tons of international cargo to Xi 'an every year.

In addition, the construction and operation of France Post DPD Western International air transport (distribution) center project in Airport New Town mainly carries out international express shipment, cross-border e-commerce import and export business and international flight transaction settlement, bulk trade and other businesses, to achieve the organic combination of France Post's rich international logistics and supply chain resources with the eight national open functions of Airport New Town. In the same period, France Post DPD Group also signed a contract with Chengdu International Railway Port to cooperate with the two sides to build a global cross-border e-commerce cargo distribution center.

Source: DPD International Express

7. Puheng International signed strategic cooperation with Mingjie China

On April 12, GLP Aviation Logistics platform Puhang International and Zhuhai Mingjet Aviation Investment Holding Co., LTD., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mingjet China, signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation in Beijing. Through this strategic cooperation, the two sides will rely on the industry resource advantages at home and abroad, through innovative cooperation methods, to build a full chain service system of air logistics, and jointly provide air logistics supply chain solutions for both domestic and foreign customers.

Source: Puheng International

8, Shopee Philippines station launched a new project "Fast Shipment plan"

On April 12, Shopee Philippine Hotel issued a document saying that in order to reward sellers with excellent order performance, the platform launched a new project "fast shipment plan", and sellers who reach the threshold will enjoy a 1% discount on transaction service fees starting from the month of reaching the threshold.

The threshold of the "Quick Shipment Program" is: the seller must fulfill the order locally in the Philippines; The seller is required to fulfill 95% of the orders created between 4pm (D-1) yesterday and 4pm (D0) today on the same day (D0); No order fulfillment related score (order non-fulfillment rate/late shipment rate) is generated during the month.

Source: Shopee Philippines e-commerce platform

9. The WTO predicts a gradual recovery in global trade this year

On April 12, the World Trade Organization (WTO) released a new Global Trade Outlook and Statistics report. The report predicts that the volume of global goods trade will grow by 2.6 percent this year and 3.3 percent in 2025. According to WTO statistics, the volume of global trade in goods will fall by 1.2% in 2023, and the decline in the volume of goods trade will be even greater, reaching 5%.

Wto economists expect a gradual pick-up in global trade in goods this year: inflationary pressures are expected to abate this year. The recovery in demand for tradable goods in 2024 is already evident, with the new export orders index indicating that the terms of trade have improved at the start of the year.

Source: CCTV News

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