The current freight forwarding market in the cross-border logistics circle is relatively chaotic, and even some freight forwarding companies will pass some sensitive products through customs in a smudged or gray way when collecting goods, which will cause multiple risks to occur at the same time. It is also because of the dark-box operations in these gray areas that logistics risks are more difficult to control.

  At present, according to the summary, there are three major risk sources of cross-border logistics: transportation safety risk, customs risk and delivery risk.

  1. Transportation safety risks.

   Such dangerous events generally refer to the transportation of battery goods, such as lighters, nail polish and other flammable and explosive prohibited products. This type of danger is not that big, but once an accident happens it's no big deal.

  2. Customs risk.

  Because the mail customs clearance method is based on spot checks, some international logistics providers often take a fluke and ignore the possible customs risks such as product tariffs and intellectual property rights. Even every year, there are customs declarations detected by the customs. Once verified, it is not just as simple as deducting one item of goods, but also the whole batch of goods may be detained.

  3. Delivery risk.

  Delivery risk refers to the failure of delivery in some cases, such as wrong address information, wrong contact information, etc. This data is also considerable, especially due to the risks caused by insufficient address data. Since the seller cannot inquire about the exact address abroad, it is ignorant, and the address information provided by the seller is the only requirement for delivery, so it is impossible to verify.

What are the three real risk sources of cross-border logistics? How to solve this problem

  International Logistics

   In the future cross-border e-commerce market competition, channel construction and various resources tend to be homogenized, and risk control will inevitably become a new direction for the competition of logistics companies. In inspection control, predictive control and source control will become the three main directions of risk control.

  1. Primary inspection and control: The primary inspection control is the inspection of the operational execution of freight companies and cross-border logistics enterprises. It should be noted that in the past, it was not uncommon for traditional logistics companies to superficially implement inspection and control at the grass-roots level, and the phenomenon of people not delivering goods often occurred.

  2. Forecast control: The risk forecast system matches various attributes of the forecast product name, type, and message value to screen out the packages that may have problems during the customs declaration process, and promptly reply the results to the customer.

  3. The distribution system of risk control is called 'address verification', that is, a real-time updateable address verification database is established, and the package address is checked according to the address data in the database, and the problem is solved immediately.