In Depth: Chinese Merchants Plow Cash Into Overseas Warehouses Amid Global E-Commerce Boom

China’s e-commerce merchants are investing ever more in overseas warehouses to keep pace with the booming cross-border trade and make deliveries more efficient.

Driven by strong global demand, building or leasing these warehouses has become an essential part of the logistics strategies for Chinese merchants and the cross-border e-commerce platforms they do business on, as well as a major source of business for third-party warehousing providers.