Spain today presented the aliexpress Logistic Service, a door-to-door order pick-up and delivery solution aimed at AliExpress sellers in the Peninsula. For its implementation, the marketplace will have the structure of GLS Spain, a partner of Cainiao (the group’s logistics company). As explained by Aliexpress in a statement, it will make available to its sellers “a reliable, fast and stable service for the collection and distribution of orders throughout the peninsula.”
The service was presented to hundreds of Spanish companies during the AliExpress Seller Conference in Madrid and represents a strategic move for the Chinese company within the marketplace field. Aliexpress tries to win over local sellers in one of the fields traditionally most conducive to amazonlogistics, and at a time when sales through national vendors are becoming more important as a result of the
This is how the new AliExpress logistics service works
Spanish AliExpress sellers can request this service at any time of the day. Thus, orders created in the system before 11:00 p.m. on the same day They will be collected at the door of the seller’s business by the logistics operator GLS Spain during the next business day. and will be delivered to the final consumer within a period of three business days. The service will be available in mainland Spain with prices from 3 euros per package.
AliExpress Logistics Service standard pickup is available from a single package and there is no limit on the number of packages which can be picked up at the vendor’s door. Rates are calculated per kilo and the minimum is set at 1kg. For the calculation of the rate of each shipment, the greatest physical or volumetric weight will be taken into account.
Sellers who use AliExpress Logistics Service will receive a monthly statement with the consolidated amount to be paid during the following 30 days. As a launch promotion, orders managed through this service between October 5, 2021 and March 31, 2022, will benefit from a discount of 0.5 euros per order, which includes orders corresponding to the next great chinese Giant Discount Party, as well as Christmas, the time of most online sales of the year.
“We are very proud to be able to offer the AliExpress logistics service to our sellers in Spain (…) a high-quality comprehensive logistics solution, which has the support of our logistics partner GLS Spain, which will be in charge of the collection and distribution of the goods. orders, shipment tracking and incident management so that our sellers can focus on what they do best: offer the best products at very competitive prices during the busiest season of the year in our marketplace, with sale events such as 11.11 and Black Friday that are already a few weeks away”, he has mentioned William Wang, General Director of AliExpress in Spain, Italy and .
«Spain is one of the most important markets for Cainiao Network in Europe, where we have been constantly innovating and improving our portfolio of services. The AliExpress Logistics Service provides a quality solution at a competitive price to local sellers and aims to better meet the needs of Spanish consumers when buying products from these sellers, contributing to the development of the local e-commerce ecosystem”, has affirmed David Bu, CEO of Cainiao Network Europe.
«This agreement with Cainiao to support AliExpress sellers in Spain demonstrates our commitment to continuous improvement and our technological development. As a logistics partner in Spain, we provide efficient technologies and market knowledge that guarantee safe deliveries from senders to recipients, thanks to our efficient network of collaborators”, has pointed out Luis Doncel, CEO of GLS Spain.
A new commitment to logistics
This is not the only movement that AliExpress has carried out in recent months in the field of logistics in Spain. A few weeks ago we announced you powered and operated by Cainiao Smart Logistics Network. This new locker service allows Spanish consumers to comfortably receive international orders that qualify for this type of delivery in More than 200 locker locations already available in both Madrid and Barcelonawhere the first locations have just been enabled.
This service is added to a network of more than 2,700 collection points managed by the logistics partner Celeritas. The main objective is to improve the shopping experience of AliExpress customers in Spain, by offering more convenient and safer last-mile delivery options.
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