On June 12, SF Express Luxi District International Business Department was officially launched and operated at Linyi Port. Domestic leading international logistics companies once again deployed Linyi inland open hub.
The implementation of this cooperation is not only a pragmatic choice for the logistics leader to be optimistic about Linyi’s international business prospects, but also a key step for Linyi to continue to improve the international logistics ecology and accelerate the leap from “buying nationwide and selling nationwide” to “buying globally and selling globally”, injecting strong circulation momentum into the high-level opening up of the old revolutionary base.
Circulation efficiency determines the degree of openness. International logistics is the core lifeline for inland cities to open up channels to the sea and embed themselves into global trade networks.
Linyi is not close to the sea or borders, but it has relied on decades of hard work to create the golden sign of “China’s Logistics Capital”. More than 3,000 domestic freight lines have woven a dense internal circulation network, a road, rail, sea and air multimodal transport system has taken shape. China-Europe trains are running stably, and TIR international road transportation leads the country in scale. As an inland comprehensive international logistics platform, Linyi Port has realized the forward port function, seamless sea-rail connection, and moved the sea port to the doorstep.
However, in subdivided scenarios such as cross-border e-commerce small packages, scattered foreign trade orders, and customized international freight forwarding, there have long been pain points such as fragmented chains, insufficient timeliness, and lack of one-stop services, which restrict the pace of small and medium-sized foreign trade companies going global.
The international business segment of SF Express has settled in Linyi Port, which can complement the shortcomings of high-end international comprehensive logistics services and achieve complementary advantages and two-way empowerment.
The establishment of leading enterprises will not only bring about the expansion of outlets, but also a systematic upgrade of the whole chain service capabilities.
Relying on SF Express’s global international network, the new operating organization will implement integrated solutions for international express delivery, cross-border e-commerce logistics, international freight forwarding, and overseas warehouse docking at Linyi Port, and provide door-to-door collection, customized packaging, customs clearance, cross-border trunk lines, and final goods.
The entire end-to-end delivery process is closed-loop; exclusive dedicated lines to core coastal ports such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Qingdao are simultaneously opened, and a new model of “same-day collection, same-day delivery” is implemented to significantly reduce cross-border transportation time and effectively reduce the comprehensive logistics costs of local foreign trade companies.
In the past, the problems of scattered shipments, multi-party docking, and multi-party bargaining for small and medium-sized merchants have been easily solved. Even small batches and frequent cross-border orders can enjoy large-scale and standardized international logistics services. This has truly lowered the threshold for foreign trade and allowed more Linyi local small commodities and specialty manufactured products to go abroad smoothly.
Only with fertile soil for high-quality industries can leading companies continue to take root.
It is no accident that leading logistics companies have settled in Linyi one after another.
The provincial level has issued special policies to support the transformation and upgrading of Linyi Mall, and continues to decentralize port, customs clearance, and trade facilitation authority; the local government has deeply cultivated the construction of the Linyi Port platform, gathering dozens of international logistics service providers, and centralized customs, terminals, bonded, and freight forwarding elements, and the one-stop foreign trade service ecosystem is becoming increasingly mature.
Superimposed on Linyi’s huge professional market cluster, massive foreign trade business entities, low-cost logistics endowment, and location advantages radiating southern Shandong and linking northern Jiangsu, the agglomeration siphon effect of inland ports continues to be released.
From express delivery regional distribution centers to international business headquarters, industry giants continue to increase their presence, confirming the steady increase in the attractiveness and carrying capacity of Linyi’s international business hub.
Logistics agglomeration generates trade agglomeration, and smooth channels drive industrial expansion.
The entry of a leading enterprise can leverage the entire foreign trade industry chain to improve quality and efficiency.
On the one hand, local advantageous industries such as cross-border e-commerce, plates, hardware, small commodities, and engineering machinery will rely on mature international logistics channels to further expand overseas markets in RCEP, Central Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia, and the territory of trading partners will continue to expand; on the other hand, the logistics concentration of Linyi Port continues to increase, gradually radiating to southern Shandong and even surrounding provinces to gather and transfer foreign trade goods, further consolidating the status of a regional inland international logistics transfer hub, and the comprehensive advantages of multimodal transport are continuously amplified.
The strong logistics chain, trade supplementary chain, and industrial extended chain are intertwined, laying a solid hardware foundation for the mall’s continuous expansion of foreign trade.
When the inland is opened, the channels will go first; when the hubs are upgraded, it will take a long time to achieve success.
The local operation of SF Express’s international business is a new node for Linyi to improve its international logistics ecology, not the end point.
Next, Linyi should take the entry of leading enterprises as an opportunity to continue to deepen the linkage and cooperation between Linyi Port and coastal ports, iterate the construction of smart ports and digital intermodal transport platforms, continue to attract more international logistics, comprehensive foreign trade services, and cross-border e-commerce supporting entities to join the park, continue to enrich multimodal transport lines, and increase international direct access.
At the same time, we will make good use of pilot policies such as market procurement trade and cross-border e-commerce to accelerate the transformation of logistics advantages into trade advantages and industrial advantages.
The inland is not closed, and the border towns are not remote.
From domestic connections to global connections, Yimeng Old District relies on its circulation advantages to continuously open the door to the world.
As high-quality international logistics resources continue to gather, Linyi’s inland opening-up level will continue to rise, and it will continue to demonstrate its hub role in integrating into the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” and deepening RCEP economic and trade cooperation, injecting solid Yimeng momentum into Shandong’s construction of an open pattern of east-west mutual aid.
