Original title: Reporters experience the orderly growth of business volume at European land transportation ports - (Introduction).
Smart warehouse, making cross-border e-commerce logistics more convenient (theme).
A few days ago, our reporter went to Słobice, a small town in western Poland close to the German border. With a population of less than 20,000, this small city is one of Europe's most important ports for land transport.
In the industrial development zone in the eastern suburbs of the city, MBB Logistics' smart warehouse is a busy scene: more than a dozen workers, with the assistance of intelligent robots, quickly label and pack express parcels, and send them directly to the logistics truck compartment through the conveyor belt. Within 24 hours, these couriers will be delivered to consumers in Poland and Germany; Within 48 hours, consumers in other EU countries will also be able to receive their respective products. As businesses need to concentrate ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday**, MBB Logistics' business volume has skyrocketed, but everything is running in an orderly manner.
Logistics efficiency has been improved in an all-round way.
Founded in 2010, MBB Logistics mainly provides first-leg and last-mile logistics services for Amazon, Yibei and Allegro, Poland's largest e-commerce platform.
The reporter walked into the intelligent warehouse of MBB Logistics Company, with a total area of about 10,000 square meters in the warehouse, on the tall and dense shelves, a wide variety of goods are dizzying. Between the shelves, more than a dozen storage robots shuttle back and forth along the planned route, remove the goods from the shelves and send them to the loading table. Workers unpack, scan the code, paste the order in one go, and then put the goods in the distribution box.
This smart warehouse was put into operation in 2019 and was the only one in China's overseas warehouse at that time to use high-end logistics robots. Smart warehouses provide a safer, faster, and more efficient way to operate, and comprehensively improve logistics efficiency. Gao Song, the founder of the company, introduced that the robot-driven software and warehouse management system of the intelligent warehouse are all independently developed by the Chinese team. Previously, workers could only sort about 170 items per hour by walking 15 to 20 kilometers in the warehouse a day, but now robots can sort 700 items per hour.
Including smart warehouses, MBB Logistics currently has a total of 8 overseas warehouses in Svubice and surrounding areas, covering an area of 160,000 square meters. Each warehouse is like a miniature version of the "Yiwu Market": electronic products, mechanical parts, household goods, hardware department stores, etc., all available. They come from nearly 300 Chinese e-commerce partners and connect thousands of Chinese manufacturing enterprises.
Gao Song said that with the improvement of China's e-commerce service level, the number of arrivals before the Spring Festival this year has increased significantly. "In the past, on the eve of the Chinese New Year, we received an average of 5 TEUs of cargo from China every day, and this year, the average volume of goods received is more than 7 TEUs. ”
Add vitality to the local economic development.
Thanks to its strategic location, dozens of logistics and transport companies are located in the industrial zone of Słubice, but our company's contribution to the local economy is definitely among the best. Dorota Kowalska, HR Director of MBB Logistics, says proudly.
Kowalska said the company currently employs more than 350 people, about half of whom are locals and the other half are from the surrounding area. In 2023 alone, the company paid more than 12 million zlotys (about $3 million) in various taxes to the local **.
After 14 years of development, MBB Logistics is based in Poland and facing the European market, and has provided a variety of solutions for Chinese cross-border e-commerce and European local e-commerce companies, as well as supporting value-added services such as local tax, legal and employment consulting.
The city of Reping, which is adjacent to the city of Słubice, is an important station of the China-Europe Railway Express in Poland. In 2022, MBB Logistics built two new warehouses here with a floor area of about 60,000 square meters.
In an interview with this reporter, the mayor of Reping, Svavomir Dukis, said that MBB Logistics is very welcome to settle in Reping City. He said: "MBB Logistics' intelligent warehouse brings modern warehouse management concepts to Poland, provides a model for the intelligent transformation of warehousing services in Poland and Europe, and adds vitality to the economic development of Reping City by providing professional and standardized logistics services for e-commerce platforms in China and Poland." ”
Together for a better future.
At the beginning of the new year 2024, MBB Logistics has raised salaries. "The whole staff felt so motivated! Kowalska said happily.
MBB Logistics not only enables employees to increase their income and contribute to the local economy, but also does not forget to assume social responsibility. Kowalska told reporters that for many years, she has been responsible for MBB Logistics' social welfare activities, including the company's public welfare sponsorship of the Słubice Cultural Center several times a year. In his speech at the opening ceremony of the Słubice Cultural Festival, Przemisław Karger, director of the center, said in his speech at the opening ceremony of the Słubice Cultural Festival that he was very grateful to MBB Logistics for its sponsorship, which has made the annual festival more important in terms of scale and influence.
Kowalska has been working for MBB Logistics for more than 3 years, and before that, he also worked for another Chinese company for almost 7 years. In her work, she has formed deep friendships with many Chinese employees and is also full of yearning for China.
Our family celebrates the Spring Festival every year! "Every Spring Festival, our family not only makes dumplings and eats Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, but also sticks Spring Festival couplets at the door. ”
On the occasion of the New Year, may we join hands towards a better future! Kowalska said.
Li Zengwei. **People** Overseas Edition.