What does hub warehousing mean?

Hub warehouse means that the goods go out from the finished product warehouse of the factory and then export to the warehouse designated by foreign customers, usually the warehouse rented by middlemen or agents.

However, the ownership of the goods in the hub warehouse does not belong to the customer, and the sales revenue cannot be confirmed. When the customer picks up the goods in the hub warehouse, the goods are officially delivered and the sales revenue is confirmed.

Hub logistics is rapid integrated distribution, and hub warehouse is equivalent to a distribution center.

Extended data:

Hub logistics is a part of logistics hub. Logistics hub refers to the base that controls the sale, concentration and transportation of goods at the main and changing and transit locations. The logistics hub can effectively fulfill its transportation and distribution obligations by combining with the distribution center located at the dock.

Hub is an important part of comprehensive transportation system, and it is the center of coordinating operation and organizing combined transportation. Transportation hub is a multi-functional transportation complex formed by the cross connection of various transportation modes or trunk lines.

With the development of China's transportation industry and the introduction of the concept of logistics management, the comprehensive transportation hub has gradually developed from a complex composed of various transportation equipment to a complex system integrating equipment, information and comprehensive management of transportation organizations, and has become an important carrier of logistics development. There are many different definitions of comprehensive transportation hub, but they all have the same understanding.

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