- The e-commerce lane grows in Shanghai-Frankfurt quickly, moving millions of monthly parcels and reshaping global supply chains.
- Shanghai Bodong Airport has carried out strict surveying and customs, enabling electronics and cosmetics exports while ensuring data quality and vision of shipping.
- Frankfurt faces challenges in data management at the package level, dealing with millions of permits per month, and the customs interpretations of the European Union across countries.
- Automation, smart programs and data sharing in an actual time is crucial to simplifying flows, which reduces excessive handling and improving efficiency.
- Cooperation between Chinese exporters, European authorities and logistics operators is necessary to build a faster, safer and smarter electronic trade corridor.
From the factory floors in southern China to the Frankfurt threshold, the electronic parcel flow of e -commerce has become one of the specified commercial stories of our time. One day, a specialized channel for small -scale commodities has grown to become a global phenomenon, reshape the supply chains, and the stressful infrastructure, and to ask urgent questions about customs, security and cooperation between the regions.
As consumers in Europe continue to click “Buy now” with record numbers, and exporters in Asia pay millions of firmness across the sky every month, the need for smooth cooperation was not greater. Challenges are shared, but methods often differ. Understanding these perspectives is the key to ensuring that the bridge between Asia and Europe remains effective and flexible.
Chinese perspective: a hidden opportunity in complexity
For Carton Hernig, Deputy General Manager and Vice President of Production, Sales and Marketing at the Shanghai Bodong International Airport shipping station, the huge range of e -commerce provides opportunities and obstacles.
“Most e -commerce actually comes from southern China,” he explained. “Until recently, electronics and cosmetics were not allowed to e -commerce across the border outside China, so everything has passed through Hong Kong. However, we have carried out operations with customs and security to allow these goods to leave Shanghai. This transformation already produces large quantities.”
The operations in Shanghai are strict. Each shipment reaches individual boxes and is scanned. “Yes, it is a headache for me,” Hernig admitted, “but it may make your life on the recipient is much easier. Every box passes through one channel that gives us a great opportunity to verify, ensure data quality, and add value.”
He sees customs data and scanning techniques critical tools in homogeneity of the shipments that reach Europe. “We can wipe the charges, we can see what inside, and the customs official can decide whether it is good to go or not. Pictures can be transferred to anywhere in the world. Imagine someone in China loads a picture of X -rays for each box in the cloud, and every customs employee in the rest of the world has an immediate arrival.”
But Hernig also admitted the need to adapt Europe. “In Germany, in Europe in general, the system has been built around exports. Now e -commerce waves come, and this changes the image. The question is how we can, as a major source of e -commerce, help avoid congestion when reaching Europe?
For him, cooperation is the only way to move forward. “We are talking about one of the most important flight flows in the world. If we are able to develop this commercial corridor jointly between Shanghai and Frankfurt, we think about the additional values that we can bring, and work with authorities to create a strong organizational framework, we can build a unique sale point for this road.
European opinion: Mastering the flood data
On the other side of the commercial corridor, MURAT ODABAS, the administrative director of CB CUSTOMS BROKER in Frankfurt, sees the challenge through a different lens: data.
“The biggest challenge we face is to deal with the data block,” he said. “Unlike traditional goods, which can be processed at the level of the main airway bill, the e -commerce comes at the package level. The shipping ship may reach 60,000 buckets, and on average, there are 2.8 elements in each of them. This is more than 160,000 elements of data to be managed. You can do this manually, but you need an army of people. So the only solution is automatic and smart.”
His company is now processing about 2.5 million per month in Frankfurt alone. “We do not transport the goods, we transfer the data,” explained. “Based on the information we receive, we verify the rules of European Union sanctions databases, and we feed it in the ICS2 ICS2 control system, and in some cases, even issuing instructions not to download one package. This is data -based customs power.”
Odabas also highlighted the organizational scene. “Germany is the largest e -commerce market in Europe, but years ago, Frankfurt was practically a prohibited city for e -commerce. The operators had to direct their flows around it. Work with the shipping community, we have opened Frankfurt e -commerce, and it is now in the field of e -commerce. It explains it differently.
For Odabas, deeper cooperation is the solution. “We need to synchronize operations so that the work done once in China does not need to be repeated in Frankfurt. If it does not touch a six -time package, we waste time and money. If we can reduce it to four, everything benefits from data sharing, confidence in each other, and align the procedures.”
And like Hernig, he is convinced that the trend is irreversible. “Ask yourself, are you ready to stop demand online?
Building the bridge
Hernig and Odabas returns to the same point: cooperation. Whether it is with the participation of X -ray images from Shanghai, coordinating customs process in Europe, or investing in artificial intelligence to discover dangerous goods, the path is forward on the continents.
“Technology is present,” said Hernig. “Magnetic lights, lithium batteries, and artificial intelligence – all exist. But if we send information via Telex and fax, it will not work. As an industry, we have to move forward and use solutions already.”
ODABAS, also agreed to indicating cultural differences. “In China, they think simple. They say,” We can make pictures, we can send them to Germany. “But in Germany, the authorities are slower, and more.
In essence, the challenge in e -commerce is not only logistical, but also political and cultural. Billions of beams will continue to fly between Asia and Europe. The question is whether the industry and the organizers can keep up with. If possible, Shanghai -Mankfurt Trade Lane may not only be one of the most more more more more more moreg against the world, but also becomes one of the smartest.
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