AliExpress Fully Scales Up "Fully Managed Overseas Fulfillment" as Over 20,000 New Merchants Joined the Program in First Half of the Year

News on August 13: Local inventory stocking is emerging as a new growth path for cross-border e-commerce. During this year's 618 shopping festival, the share of orders shipped from AliExpress' local warehouses exceeded that of direct cross-border shipments for the first time.

From August 11 to 13, the AliExpress Fully Managed Overseas Fulfillment New Power Summit was held in Shenzhen, marking that the "fully managed overseas fulfillment" program has entered a fast lane of merchant recruitment. In the first half of 2026, over 20,000 new merchants joined AliExpress' fully managed overseas fulfillment model. The number of sellers generating over $1 million in annual revenue doubled, while the number of sellers with annual revenue exceeding $5 million saw a year-on-year increase of 567%.

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