What are the differences between consolidation and transshipment in international express delivery?

With the increasing wave of reform and opening up and economic globalization, China's import and export trade is also constantly developing, and e-commerce has made a qualitative leap. At present, in addition to the most basic air/sea/rail transportation, container transportation and transshipment that have emerged in recent years have also achieved rapid success, but many people do not understand the difference between the two. Today, we will analyze the following points:

1. Different definitions:

a. Centralized transportation: Export centralized transportation, as the name suggests, is a freight development model that mainly focuses on transportation from China to foreign countries. It arranges shipments of different goods from multiple people at a unified time, and distributes them to a single destination and the country;

b. Transshipment: Import transshipment, as the name suggests, is a type of freight transportation from abroad to China, usually a one-on-one freight service.

2. Different user groups:

a. Consolidation: Consignment of goods purchased by Chinese people on various e-commerce platforms to be shipped within China

b. Transshipment: Chinese people purchase/wholesale goods on overseas e-commerce platforms and factories, and collectively transport them back to China.

3. Different advantages:

a. Consolidation: With humanized management function, it can assist in unpacking, acceptance, and packaging services according to the development requirements of enterprise customers. For products that students are not satisfied with, they can be promptly exchanged or returned before consolidation;

Disadvantage: Long time consuming

b. Transshipment: Collection/free door-to-door pickup, goods arrive and leave at any time, ensuring timeliness.

Disadvantage: No acceptance or packaging services provided

4. Different processes:

a. Consolidation: Collection - Warehousing - Warehousing - Packaging - Outbound

b. Transfer: Collection - Warehousing - Warehousing - Outbound