Overview
- Amazon opened its first Global Warehousing and Distribution hub in Shenzhen to serve Chinese exporters.
- The facility functions as an all-in-one site that handles storage, customs clearance, and overseas shipping in one workflow.
- Amazon says the model can cut storage costs for sellers by up to 45% compared with holding goods in U.S. warehouses.
- Early pilot sellers report much faster shipping, with one Shenzhen firm cutting waits from two to four weeks to as little as three days.
- Amazon plans to extend the model to other Chinese manufacturing regions and to link distribution networks in Europe and Japan.