In the first eight months of this year, cross-border e-commerce exports through Shanghai Port reached 106.98 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.7%, maintaining growth for eight consecutive months, according to Shanghai Customs on September 28, 2026.

Customs officers at Shanghai Pudong International Airport were conducting inspections of cross-border e-commerce warehouses. On September 22, at the Shanghai Maritime Cross-Border E-Commerce Operations Center at the Waigaoqiao Zhendong Terminal, a batch of thermal socks, thermal gloves and other cold-weather products worth about 150,000 yuan was shipped overseas under the customs supervision of Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port Area Customs, reflecting a regulatory transformation at Shanghai Port targeting the "fragmented" order pain points of cross-border e-commerce.

Traditional maritime shipping uses the "full container" as its smallest unit and lacks a less-than-container-load model suited to the "multiple batches, small volumes" characteristics of cross-border e-commerce. Small and medium-sized enterprises have fallen into a dilemma where "waiting to fill a container is too slow, while shipping separately costs too much," making "difficulty in consolidating shipments" a bottleneck for going global. Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port Area Customs innovatively introduced a "master bill plus less-than-container-load" supervision model.

In addition, the number of cross-border e-commerce manifests at Pudong Airport has ranked first nationwide in air transport for three consecutive years. In the first eight months of this year, the overall declared volume of import and export cross-border e-commerce manifests at Shanghai Pudong Airport Port reached 578 million tickets, with a value of 57.526 billion yuan, up 41.37% and 6.62% year-on-year respectively, with both indicators setting new historical records.