The e-commerce industry is going crazy! Yiwu is in a state of silence, and express delivery is suspended for 5 days

Yiwu has recently experienced a sudden outbreak of the epidemic. As of 9:00 on the 11th, Yiwu’s "8.2" epidemic has reported a total of 500 cases of local new coronavirus positive infections.

The epidemic is getting worse and worse. Based on this, Yiwu officially issued the " Notice on the Implementation of Temporary Whole-Area Silent Management " early this morning, stating that from 0:00 on August 11, the entire city of Yiwu will implement 3 days of silent management .

For cross-border sellers, the most important concern is the operation of Yiwu postal express. Yien.com learned that Yiwu Post Office has issued a notice to suspend all local express delivery outlets for 5 days.

In Yiwu, there is an international trade land route directly to Europe - the "YiXinOu" China-Europe express train. It has been completely blocked since the outbreak of the epidemic. Although it operates normally during this period, it has been affected to some extent .

Several cross-border sellers revealed that due to the blockade of some areas, the truck drivers originally scheduled were unable to arrive, and no drivers were willing to accept orders for temporary appointments, so they were finally forced to "spend huge amounts of money" on shipping costs.

On August 7, the deputy director of Yiwu Market Development Committee stated that from August 2 to 6, the Yiwu platform of the "YiXinOu" China-Europe freight train dispatched a total of 22 trains and 1,898 TEUs, with an average daily shipment of 4.4 trains and 380 TEUs, an increase of 12% and 18% over the average daily number of trains and TEUs dispatched in July.

During the same period, the "Yiwu-Ningbo Zhoushan Port" sea-rail intermodal trains dispatched a total of 16 trains and 1,426 TEUs, with an average daily dispatch of 3.2 trains and 285 TEUs, an increase of 34% and 38% over the average daily dispatched trains and TEUs in July. In addition, the "Yiwu-Osaka, Japan" international freight route had a total of 3 round trips, transporting 31 tons of goods.

During the Christmas shopping season, the head of a relevant Yiwu company said that cross-border sellers began placing Christmas gift orders as early as May . Since July, orders for various Christmas products have been full , and some categories of orders have even been scheduled until September . However, due to the outbreak of the epidemic , many factories in Yiwu have stopped working.

Originally, they had placed orders early to prepare for the Christmas peak season and make a lot of money. However, the current epidemic in Yiwu is raging, and sellers are worried that if they wait until the lockdown is lifted, the originally scheduled ordinary ships will have to be changed to fast ships, and they will have to bear huge losses.

As the " world supermarket ", "small commodity capital" and "express delivery center" , Yiwu has developed e-commerce and a huge express delivery business, with about 550 express delivery outlets alone. According to statistics, before the outbreak of this epidemic, Yiwu had an average of 30 million express deliveries sent from here to all parts of the country and even the world every day , and the inbound express delivery volume was between 1.5 million and 1.6 million .

From the outbreak of this epidemic until yesterday, in order to ensure the normal passage of express trunk vehicles, Yiwu Postal Administration selectively issued a number of vehicle passes.

Before the complete lockdown, as the lockdown area expanded day by day , the volume of express deliveries sent out of Yiwu on August 3 and 4 exceeded 26 million pieces . As of the 8th, the number of express deliveries out of Yiwu remained at around 25 million pieces, and the number of inbound express deliveries was around 1.1 million pieces .

As can be seen from the above, Yiwu is an important e-commerce city, and this round of epidemic has had a great impact on sellers. At present, many cross-border logistics practitioners said that they are urgently notifying customers to transfer goods to warehouses other than Yiwu.

There is no doubt that the control measures have hindered the cross-regional circulation of goods and delayed the delivery of goods. If the epidemic develops further, cross-border sellers may bear more additional losses.

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