Amazon has opened its third Global Warehousing and Distribution facility in mainland China, located in Ningbo. This completes a three-city inbound network (Shenzhen, Shanghai, and now Ningbo) and offers sellers a new cost optimization opportunity for FBA shipments originating in or transiting through China.
Key Details
- Storage rate: $7.91 per cubic meter per month — approximately 10% cheaper than existing Shanghai and Shenzhen facilities
- Promotion window: 30 days of free storage on shipments received through December 31
- Operational impact: Sellers sourcing or consolidating inventory in China now have three staging options with differentiated pricing
What This Means for Your Supply Chain
If you’re shipping inventory from China to FBA, Ningbo’s lower storage rate could reduce landed costs, especially for bulk or slow-moving SKUs. The free storage period through year-end makes it worth evaluating whether a shipment could route through Ningbo instead of your current consolidation point.
How Squatio helps
When evaluating profitability across sourcing regions or consolidation points, Prospect (Product Database) helps you analyze historical sell-through velocity and storage cost sensitivity for your current catalog. Combined with accurate unit economics, you can model whether the Ningbo cost savings justify the logistics routing change for specific products or seasonal campaigns.
What’s your current China consolidation workflow — are you already comparing warehouse options by region, or has cost been a secondary factor?
Source: Amazon's Third China Warehouse Is Now Open, and It's the Cheapest of the Three