Xiao ZUOPENG, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
Yang NINGXI, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
The rise of cross-border eCommerce logistics (CBECL) is one of the most influential factors leading to the ongoing logistics revolution worldwide. Several studies have investigated the space effects of CBECL at multiple geographical and network scales; however, few focus on the above effects at the global scale. This paper looks at how the CBECL connectivity from China varies across different destination countries in the platform of Aliexpress.com. Affiliated to Alibaba Group, this platform is the largest CEBC platform that only ranked behind Amazon. In order to facilitate sellers to achieve logistics fulfillment, this Alibaba platform has built a self-owned logistics network to facilitate worldwide logistics fulfillment. The logistics solutions include premium, standard, and economy solutions. The expected fulfillment time and price were provided for each solution. By the discount factor algorithm, we constructed a connectivity model. The results show the geographical variabilities across different destination countries from China, although the international connection has increased rapidly from 2016 to 2020. We hypothesized that these variabilities are partially derived from variances of CEBC demand flow between country pairs and resulted from network features such as transportation. A gravity model was constructed to see how the connectivities interact with distance and populations. The findings of this research would shed light on the global eCommerce governances and see how to alleviate the extending logistics disparities.
Mots clés : cross-border eCommerce|logistics fulfillment|connectivity|geographical variability
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