Niuku International Logistics Company, Shenzhou Computer Building, Longgang District, Shenzhen City, Shenzhen (2026)

Name: Niuku International Logistics Company
Address: Shenzhou Computer Building, Longgang District, Shenzhen City, Shenzhen, 518129, CN
Telephone: +8613632600761

23/09/2024

Amazon burst warehouse goods into the warehouse difficult, this week logistics how to ship?

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American line market situation

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American line market situation
Less than 10 days from the strike time in the United States East (October 1), the negotiations between the union and the employer still have not eased, and the risk of strike in the United States East has intensified.

So far, a number of shipping companies have announced fee increases and additional surcharges:
MSC has announced that effective October 1, 2024, a new emergency operations surcharge of $1,000 per 20-foot container and $1,500 per 40-foot container will be applied.
Cma CGM announced a port fee of US $1,500 per TEU for imports into the eastern United States and the Gulf Coast effective October 11, with additional local port fees of US $800 per 20 feet and US $1,000 per 40 feet for exports effective the same day.
Hapag-lloyd has announced an additional disruption surcharge of $1,000 per TEU for containerized cargo bound for the eastern United States and Gulf Coast from all ports in Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, the Middle East, India, Oceania and Latin America, effective October 18.

In addition, with the approaching of the second half of the peak season, express companies are facing multiple pressures such as increased consignment volume, increased demand for capacity and rising operating costs, and many express companies such as DHL have also begun to raise surcharges:

DHL has announced that from 15 September 2024 to 31 January 2025, a demand surcharge will be applied, depending on the origin and destination of the goods;

UPS announced that it will adjust the peak season surcharge twice this holiday shopping season, from $3.50 to $7.75 on September 15, and is expected to further increase to $9.95 in mid-November, and the surcharge for large packages and packages exceeding the maximum limit will also be adjusted.

From September 16, 2024 to January 31, 2025, Fedex international shipments will be:

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Port: The docks are currently congested

LBCT, PCT, ITS, APM, ETS, WBCT dock congestion;

NY, APM, SAV, ETS, WBCT are less.

HOU and SAV wharves are normal; ETS dock is easy to enter the closed area, but the stay time is not long; CHI cabinet centralized arrival, transfer train and arrival time is slow; APM and NY are difficult to contract at present.

03
End: Amazon big burst warehouse, slow entry
Some Amazon warehouses have serious warehouse explosions, such as ABQ2 has begun to reject, frequently jump about, waiting time of 20H+, multiple warehouses have different degrees of warehouse explosions, and the release of about a long time. The details are as follows:

American and Spanish side:
LGB8 warehouse explosion, batch time of three weeks, there are rejection, jump cases;
Batch SCK4, SMF3, FAT2, MCE1 and SJC7 will be approximately one week later; batch XLX7, ONT8 and GYR2/3 will be approximately one week later; batch SBD1 will be approximately three weeks later;
One week after the release of SNA4, LAS1, VGT2 and RNO4;
LAX9, AZA4 put about normal.

The US and China:
DEN2 microburst warehouse, batch time of about two weeks;
DEN8, FTW1 and IAH3 batches take about one week. The RFD2 release is normal.
IND9 About one week after release;
FWA4 explosion was relieved after about one week, MDW2 explosion was relieved after about two weeks;
ABQ2 is seriously rejected and frequently jumps the contract. The waiting time is 20H+, and the contract is not released at present.
The RFD2 release is normal.

East American side:

CLT2 is seriously out of warehouse, about two weeks later, and there is a situation of unloading more than 10H; The explosion of ABE8 intensified, and the batch time was about three weeks;

TPA2, AVP1 batch about one week;

After MEM1 is released for about one week, the waiting time is 15H+.

* Note: The above is the Najo situation of Amazon Marketplace. New cool international logistics are their own contract, brush contract team, our contract situation is better than the market, you can rest assured delivery.

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Plus line market situation

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Port: Long wait to board the train
For Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, about 2-3 weeks on the train, the waiting time for the train increases, and the arrival delay is 2-3 days; CP arrival time is easy to delay, 1-2 days later than CN arrival time.

In Vancouver, Vanterm/Delta/DP can be picked up in 3-5 days. FS4 to 5 days can be picked up,2 to 3 weeks can be on the train.
02
End: The Amazon explosion continues

Vancouver: YVR3 out, YVR4 normal.

Calgary side: YYC6, YEG2 and YYC4 are out of stock, YEG1 is normal, YEG2 reservation is delayed, and YYC4 rejection is serious.

Toronto: YOW1, YGK1 exploded warehouse, YOW1 rejected more, YGK1 deleted, it is still difficult to make an appointment; YYZ7, YYZ9, YOO1, and YXU1 have many deletions.

* Note: Canadian Amazon warehouses update the size requirements of goods in real time, according to foreign news:
YVR3 in Vancouver will not accept goods exceeding 50Lbs (22.6KG) per box and 120cm in length; YVR4 does not accept goods longer than 75CM;

Calgary's YEG1 is currently rejecting mix SKUs; YEG2 single box length shall not exceed 25inch (about 62cm); YYC4 single box size shall not exceed 25inch(64cm)*16(41cm);

Toronto YXU1, YYZ4, YOW3 outer box side more than 63CM will be rejected, a single product does not exceed 7.5kg, 18inch; YOO1, YOW1 and YYZ9 goods exceeding 50LBS and 59inches in length will be rejected. Shipments exceeding 49KG in weight, 6ft (182CM) in length and 4ft (120CM) in width will be rejected.

* Note: The above is the Najo situation of Amazon Marketplace. New cool international logistics are their own contract, brush contract team, our contract situation is better than the market, you can rest assured delivery.

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European line market situation

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(New Cool International Logistics WK39 European line shipping date)

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Port: There are delays at Felixstowe
The British port of Felixstowe unloaded the ship 1~2 days, and the container delivery was delayed.

Eu Rotterdam port unloading 2-3 days, Ningbo departure date +5 days.

02
End: The warehouse is normal
The British warehouse is normal.

Eu DTM2 and HAJ1 are normal; DHL and UPS extraction is normal.

* Note: The above is the Najo situation of Amazon Marketplace. New cool international logistics are their own contract, brush contract team, our contract situation is better than the market, you can rest assured delivery.

20/09/2024

Sales surge secret! Amazon's new traffic entry continues unabated

Recently, Amazon global store has officially announced that the third autumn Prime Big Deal Days event will be held from October 8 to 9, covering Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and other global sites. In order to seize this opportunity, many sellers have developed a perfect preparation plan in order to maximize the flow during this period.

As a new traffic entrance, green label has attracted the attention of a large number of sellers and become a sharp tool for improving traffic and transformation. Industry giants such as Anke Innovation, Huabao New Energy, and Lege have already taken the lead, and a large number of products have been put on the green label. In the case of Anker Innovation, 80% of its products are green label certified, which has brought them significant traffic growth and conversion rate improvement.

During important promotions such as Earth Month and Black Friday, Amazon will prioritize products with a climate green label to demonstrate its commitment to environmental protection and meet the growing consumer demand for sustainable products. This strategy not only enhances the market competitiveness of these products, but also strengthens Amazon's position as the preferred platform for green shopping.

Amazon's "green label" has already set off a craze in the seller circle. Compared with ordinary products, green label products have the advantages of special area display, traffic entry expansion, exposure outside the search results page screening bar, participation in specific environmental theme activities. Whether it is a novice seller or a big seller in the industry, they are competing to join the "green label trend", hoping to enhance market competitiveness and seize more exposure opportunities.

At present, Amazon has established partnerships with more than 50 tripartite certification bodies around the world. At present, there are 52 different authentication methods to choose from. These certification methods are mainly divided into two categories: one is through the traditional factory inspection type environmental protection certification; The other is a carbon-neutral certification scheme.

To obtain a green label, a product must pass an Amazon-recognized sustainability certification, with ClimatePartner and CarbonFree being the most popular due to their low threshold, wide application and high success rates. In essence, both certification schemes are certified by calculating the carbon emissions of the product and carrying out carbon offsets to achieve emissions reductions.

ClimatePartner calculates various emissions data of products through the model of "institution-developed system + third-party verification". In addition to the certificate, certified products will receive a unique ID that consumers can use to check the brand's environmental contributions, product traceability information, global climate projects supported, and offset emissions. The openness and transparency of the data further enhance the credibility and competitiveness of the brand in the market. Anker Innovation, DJI and other well-known brands are cooperating with Green boat to choose and use the certification.

Similarly, CarbonFree conducts its accounting through a Life-cycle assessment (LCA) report issued by a qualified third party. Each company registered to the CarbonFree Certification program through ClimeCo receives an official certificate that includes: specific details of the carbon offsets supported, the amount of carbon offsets purchased and cancelled, and the specific serial number of each carbon offsets credit cancelled on behalf of the company.

Both are officially approved by Amazon when it comes to compliance. Sellers can flexibly choose the most suitable certification scheme according to their own product characteristics and needs.

In 2024, with the acceleration of the compliance process, Amazon's "scan number" action is no longer limited to the old problems of brushing orders and account association in the past, and illegal operations such as "false authentication" have also become the focus of rectification.

This year, in order to attract sellers, many service providers in order to seize the beach black five and network a preparatory period, many service providers have hit the second price. Among them, some third-party service providers, in order to obtain customers, take fraudulent ways to carry out illegal "certificate set" activities.

An industry insider said: "At present, the average cost of carbon labeling products is about 30,000 yuan, but some service providers dare to report any price, and even 16,000 all-inclusive." In fact, the cost cannot be lower than 20,000 at the moment."

ClimatePartner's official registration fee plus certificate review costs are at least 3,100 euros (22,000 yuan), not counting the carbon fee. CarbonFree, because of its participation threshold, costs at least 35,000 yuan.

Such a cost, in the face of service providers to play less than 20,000 superlabeled prices, you still dare to use? This is a logic with the freight forwarder receiving goods at a low price, the wool comes out of the sheep, and there must be a trap behind the low price.

One of the common pitfalls is "certificate hedging". To circumvent the thousands of dollars in official registration fees, some services let multiple sellers share a single certificate body, placing all customers under the same shell company. This operation seems to save a fee, but it will lead to all the participating stores do not actually hold their own certificates.

Another pitfall is that the service provider does not provide certification. Some service providers deliberately do not deliver the certification certificate after the seller is successfully labeled, so that the seller thinks that only the label can be obtained, but in fact, any third-party certification will have the corresponding certificate report. If the seller does not ask for these certificates, the risk of violations is greatly increased, giving non-compliant vendors the opportunity to cheat.

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In the long run, the small green label is not only a traffic password for the seller, but also an important thrust to enhance the brand image and promote the sustainable development of the brand, which is also an important reason for more and more sellers to enter CPF certification. According to the data, the number of CPF-certified products in 2023 has increased by 157% compared to 2022.

However, in order to avoid "illegal operations" threatening the security of the store, Xiaobian suggests that sellers keep their eyes open when choosing service providers. First of all, we should compare more to understand the specific composition of charges, so as to help judge whether there are violations; Secondly, remember to ask for certificates and reports, certification will have a specific report; Finally, verify that the charge is consistent with the declared amount.

19/09/2024

Sellers reduce costs! Amazon will test the new policy

Season approaching, Amazon to some sellers to send benefits? !

Recently, there have been media reports that Amazon has launched two FBA pilot programs in the United States to reduce costs for sellers. Invited sellers can receive discounts on delivery costs or waive low inventory level fees for registered items if they participate.

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Amazon invited some sellers to participate in the pilot program

Recently, many sellers broke the news and received relevant emails from Amazon.

It is reported that this is two pilot programs, both invitation system, named Athena (Athena) and Apollo (Apollo), after the seller received Amazon invitation email and conduct the corresponding operation, will be considered successful participation.

Athena pilot program

According to the seller, since the beginning of September, some sellers have received an email from Amazon, invited to participate in the Athena pilot program, from September 9, 2024 to November 15, 2024, can waive the low inventory level fee, provided that the order outside the designated area is limited to delivery.

That is, out-of-area deliveries will be prohibited for items below the low inventory cost threshold (indicating 28 days of historical supply). This can reduce the need for costly long-distance deliveries and eliminate low inventory level charges for these orders, thereby saving FBA fees.

Once the product has been replenished and exceeds the cost threshold, the cost will no longer be incurred and the prohibition on out-of-area delivery for US orders will be lifted.

Participating sellers will select the items to sign up for the pilot program from a list of suggestions provided in a survey sent by invitation email. During the pilot period, all registered goods will enjoy a low inventory item fee waiver.

Athena pilot program

Apollo pilot program

Some sellers received the Apollo pilot program in the mail. Sellers who receive an invitation and agree to participate in the pilot program will only use available inventory in the same area to deliver orders to buyers between September 15, 2024 and November 15, 2024. This program is primarily aimed at sellers selling lower-priced items, offering FBA fee discounts on items selling for less than $25.

This means that the seller's registered goods are only available to buyers in the area. For example, buyers in New York cannot purchase goods that are stored in the California operations center.

Apollo pilot program

This approach can reduce costly long-distance deliveries. The platform will return the savings to the seller, and the seller can enjoy a discount on the delivery cost of registered goods during the pilot period. Sellers can view actual shipping discounts by item in the survey link provided in the invitation email. Except for delivery costs, all other costs are not affected by this plan. For registered items, Amazon will charge a storage fee, an in-store provisioning service fee, and a low inventory level fee (if applicable).

It is worth noting that in both pilot programs, regardless of which in-store configuration service fee option a seller chooses, the inventory that a seller sends to Amazon will still expand across the delivery network in nine geographic regions in the United States; At the same time, if the seller does not have any remaining inventory in the region, the sale cannot be made in the region.

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Does the invited seller have to attend?

Regardless of which new program you are invited to participate in, Apollo and Athena, there are terms and conditions that need to be followed:

These Terms and conditions are in addition to the Amazon Services Business Solutions Agreement (the "Agreement") and include:

These plans are only available to sales partners who receive an invitation directly from Amazon via email. The invitation will indicate the amount of a discount, fee waiver, or other offer (" incentive ") associated with the specific pilot program available to you.

· The program will be implemented within the following date ranges:

Athena: 9 September 2024 to 15 November 2024

Apollo: September 15, 2024 to November 15, 2024

· Incentives apply only to selected stores and selected items identified by Amazon in the pilot invitation.

To receive an incentive, you must complete all the qualifying steps listed in the pilot invitation within the time specified by Amazon. After completing the eligibility steps, incentives associated with the program will be added to the seller account. Any incentives offered are non-transferable, non-resold and non-redeemable for cash.

Amazon mentions in the supplementary terms listed above that these plans are only available to sales partners who receive an invitation directly from Amazon via email. Moreover, the seller who received the invitation, also has the relevant notice mentioned that it is not necessary to attend. If you do not want to attend, you can simply ignore the invitation.

05/09/2024

Profits are in danger! Amazon could start double billing

In 2024, Amazon's two new charges for storage will weigh on sellers' profits like a mountain of fingers.

AMZ123 learned that since March 1, 2024, after the storage configuration fee officially took effect, there has been a continuous discussion from the industry. Most sellers believe that this sudden new fee not only increases the cost burden, but also has a profound impact on operations.

What's worse, according to industry feedback, if there are extreme cases, the storage configuration fee may also have a "chemical reaction" with another storage related cost - the storage defect fee, which will cause a heavy blow to the profits of Amazon's US station sellers who are not rich.

It is understood that the Amazon warehousing defect fee is officially effective on February 1, 2024. According to the notice, if the seller's shipment does not meet Amazon's requirements or does not have the same inventory as the inventory plan, Amazon will reject the shipment and charge the seller an inventory defect fee. [Do global business, create a differentiated logic of going to sea, register here at the 2024 Brand Globalization Summit Forum]

Specifically, shipments shipped to the wrong location, deleted and discarded may result in shipment rejection or additional charges. One of these situations is when other shipments are not delivered within 30 days of the first shipment in a multi-destination storage plan, or when a shipment is created to be allocated to a multi-destination shipment, only part of it is sent and the remaining sub-shipments are deleted (deleted).

In other words, if the seller's sub-warehouse goods are not delivered for more than 30 days, Amazon will likely charge storage configuration fees and storage defect fees at the same time, resulting in huge logistics costs.

In the recent past, some sellers have reflected that the original four shipments of normal optimization and split, due to customs inspection, resulting in one of the shipments more than 30 days from the first shipment to the warehouse, resulting in the original storage configuration fee of 0 of the four shipments, and then on the basis of being charged storage defect fees, all were re-charged a high several hundred dollars of storage configuration fees.

There are many Amazon sellers in the industry who have the same experience:
"The normal split shipment is shipped at the same time, because the warehouse disorderly reception leads to the arrival of these several shipments within 30 days, Amazon not only penalized us for warehousing defects, but also directly calculated according to the highest warehousing configuration fee."
"We did the same thing. We deducted thousands of dollars more."

Based on the seller's feedback, the reasons for the overtime delivery of sub-warehouse goods include but are not limited to customs inspection, warehouse reception errors and other problems, but Amazon almost without exception determines that it is necessary to charge storage configuration fees and storage defect fees.

So the news once again set off a heated debate. Some sellers believe that Amazon is trying to push the official logistics plan, but others say that Amazon may be just to shift the delivery costs after the surge in shipments.

For now, apart from participating in Amazon's official logistics AMP, there seems to be no foolproof way to waive storage configuration fees.

However, for the warehousing defect fee and warehousing configuration fee caused by the time-out of the delivery of the divided goods, some senior sellers pointed out that excluding extremely special circumstances, these additional costs can be avoided to a large extent, and they also gave their own suggestions:

1. Pay attention to the timeliness of the shipping company's arrival at the port of 5 large cargo dismantling points in North America;
2, the end of the customs clearance and delivery link, pay attention to the overall operational efficiency of cooperative freight forwarders, including customs clearance, container pickup, etc.;
3, pay attention to the distance between the US West, the US China, the US East warehouse point and the port and the tail end of the peak season and non-peak season delivery time.

On the whole, in the current situation of constant changes in platform policies, for Amazon sellers, it is more necessary to pay attention to the entire logistics chain, so that every node must be aware of it, so as to avoid feeling unprepared due to various unexpected situations. [Do global business, create a differentiated logic of going to sea, register here at the 2024 Brand Globalization Summit Forum]

In addition, it is worth mentioning that in terms of logistics, in addition to adjusting various costs, Amazon is also further expanding its storage capacity, taking a series of operations such as new warehouses to improve its logistics efficiency.

According to industry feedback, Amazon US sellers have recently opened a new warehouse mode of experience.

AMZ123 learned that after the recent launch of ABQ2, PCS2 and TMB8 warehouses, Amazon added two new warehouses of MIT2 and GEU3 at the beginning of this month.

According to industry sources, the two new warehouse addresses are in the United States, Shafter and Buckeye, near the port of Los Angeles, are belonging to the West warehouse. At present, some freight forwarders have begun to support the new warehouse card, and the time limit is generally 22 to 28 days.

From a platform perspective, the opening of the new warehouse is expected to help Amazon expand market coverage, cope with peak season demand, and consolidate and improve its competitiveness in the field of logistics.

However, from the perspective of sellers, although the new warehouse has the possibility of improving the warehousing time, optimizing inventory management, and improving distribution efficiency, it also has certain risks, such as increasing logistics costs, and long reservation time affecting inventory replenishment.

In mid-August, after the launch of the two previous new warehouses ABQ2 and PSC2, a large number of sellers' shipments were distributed to these two warehouses. Most sellers are mocking the new warehouse as "expensive and far away," and some sellers are therefore charged configuration fees and defect fees by Amazon.

However, it is worth mentioning that some sellers have observed that the new MIT2 and GEU3 warehouses are located close to the West of the United States compared with the previous warehouses, and it is not easy to passively "far warehouse near delivery", so sellers who are divided into these two new warehouses do not need to worry too much for the time being.

04/09/2024

Amazon's new policy, sellers ship too fast or be fined? !
Cross-border knowledge
September 04, 2024 16:55 Guangdong

With the effect of a series of new policies by Amazon - inventory configuration fees, low volume inventory fees, increased return processing fees, and the latest shipping time Settings and processing time automatic adjustment policies, sellers have generally felt the cost pressure and operational challenges have intensified in recent years.

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Amazon releases new logistics policy

A few days ago, Amazon released the latest logistics policy, starting from October 25, 2024, from China to the United States mainland (excluding Hawaii, Alaska and the United States protected territories) transportation time Settings will change greatly. The seller's choice of shipping templates will be reduced from 2-28 days to 2-20 days, and the maximum shipping time will be reduced from 28 days to 20 days.

At the same time, the platform will enable an automatic processing time mechanism, which will automatically adjust the processing time of SKUs that are manually configured to be two or more days slower than the actual processing time, and sellers can not disable this feature.

The new policy quickly triggered a strong response from the seller community. Many sellers said that the policy did not take into account a variety of variables in actual operations, such as logistics delays, product characteristics, processing time differences, etc., which is particularly serious for self-delivery sellers. Sellers are concerned that shorter shipping times will directly lead to higher logistics costs, while increasing the risk of delivery delays due to factors beyond their control.

What is particularly confusing to sellers is that the New Deal seems to also set up "hidden penalties" for sellers who ship too fast. Some sellers have reported that even if they complete order processing and ship ahead of schedule, they may be considered late because they do not ship according to the newly set time frame, thus affecting the store's on-time delivery rate (OTDR) :

"Am I right? If we really ship faster than we can manually configure, will Amazon punish us for shipping too fast?"

"We shipped on time and are now responsible for delays beyond our control. Is that fair?"

"I had eight orders flagged for late delivery. I downloaded the reports, and seven of the late order reports themselves indicated that the delivery dates were on or even earlier than the promised delivery dates."

"Of all Amazon's changes, penalizing sellers who ship early is the strangest."

In this regard, some industry analysts pointed out that the adjustment of Amazon's logistics policy seems to be intended to clean out some small sellers and amateur sellers, so as to better serve medium and large enterprises that can provide efficient, fast and stable logistics services.

In addition, the New Deal has brought unprecedented challenges to the transportation of some special commodities. For example, sellers of live plants say that due to the additional processing time required by commodity characteristics, the automatic processing time mechanism simply cannot adapt to their operational needs. Similar problems also exist for other goods that require special handling, such as fragile goods, dangerous goods, etc.

02

International Returns policy updated

Sellers are under more pressure

At the same time, Amazon recently announced a major update to its international returns policy, effective September 16, 2024. The new rule requires international sellers (those without a default U.S. return address) to provide an international return label with no refund or prepayment within 2 days of the return request, which is 3 days shorter than the current rule of 5 days!

When the refund process starts, Amazon immediately sends the seller an email notification that includes an "Authorization request" button that allows the seller to upload the logistics label required for the return directly with a click in the Return Management section of the Seller Center. It should be emphasized here that if the seller fails to respond positively to this request within the established time frame, Amazon may subrogation the refund operation and transfer the corresponding amount directly from the seller's account to the buyer.

In the past, Amazon has been more generous with the return period for buyers, especially during the peak season, the period can be extended to as long as three months. However, in view of the two new policies launched by Amazon, it is not difficult to foresee that sellers will face a more severe risk challenge of "pulling wool". This not only means the direct loss of the product itself, but also accompanied by a non-negligible return processing costs, further shrinking the seller's profit margin. Therefore, the seller needs to adjust the strategy in time to cope with the possible increase in the cost and risk of returns.

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