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Can Technology & Logistics Firms Help to Realize Sellers’ Cross-Border Ecommerce Dream?

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Every e-commerce business starts with an aim to expand. To cater a different demography or in order to explore a potential territory, one needs a robust logistics firm. They need the transportation and delivery acumen to meet offshore customers, deliver the products at their doorstep by crossing the border. Now, without an able logistic firm who knows how to leverage the technology and ready to serve other formalities, the dream of cross-border ecommerce will remain a void forever. How exactly the technology and logistics firm help to realize the cross-border ecommerce dream? Scroll below to know the solution- Managing Formalities: This is a great value that an expert logistic firm can add. They will take care of every official formality. From meeting the custom requirements to deliver products to the cross-border customers- they will do everything to sell your products at abroad. Why is this a great benefit for you? Because every nation has own rule when it c...

Why Does The Transport Industry Need To Embrace The Digital Revolution?

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Over the decade, the e-commerce has seen an exponential growth. From catering new products to encroaching new market- there is no room for imagination left for the e-commerce. Standing on the verge of immense disruption- today’s customers want better, if not superlative service from the e-commerce ventures. In the middle of suffocating competition, the online merchants are hustling day and night to satisfy them. In this scenario, the transportation emerges as a potential game-changer. To open the new avenues and kick off a disruption, the transport industry needs to embrace the digital revolution. What are the options left for them and how they will help the transport industry? Let’s find out- Route Planning The biggest advantage of the digital revolution in the transport industry will be the introduction of new hassle-free operation. Take the basic route-planning as an example. The digital technology will make your hour-long paper-based planning a system...

Importance of International Commercial Terms for Cross Border Ecommerce Sales

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INCO TERMS are very important and these are needed to Trade Goods Overseas.Without knowledge of these terms, the sellers or buyers might not be able to communicate in same terms. For Cross Border eCommerce Shipment Inco terms needed are: EX WORKS FOB – Free On Board CIF or CPT DDU/ DAP DDP Knowledge Series 1 Let us try to understand what is the difference between Ex Works and FOB terms. It's very simple: What does Ex-works mean?   Ex-Factory. Ex-factory price means, the selling cost of goods at seller's factory location. Any other expenses from the factory of the seller to buyer's location have to be borne by the buyer. So the responsibility of getting goods from the seller’s factory is with the buyer. Here the buyer appoints a shipping/ logistics and freight forwarding company to collect goods from the seller’s factory and then bring/ship to the buyer's place including insurance of goods. How Ex-factory terms wor...