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2020: 50 thousand purchases in a year

In 2020, according to a research of the SDEK international company, 49,500 times Russians purchased goods in online stores of purchases using CDEK Forward service worldwide. Among them there are also these shopaholics - 2,517 orders were issued by one person: seven purchases every day. The company reported about it on December 28, 2020.

The pandemic forced all to stay at home. Because of the closed borders most of Russians could not depart to a holiday and arrange foreign shopping. However it did not prevent them to make purchases online — the CDEK Forward project manager Ovsep Osipyan commented.

The part for the computer – a payment worth 12,995 dollars became the most expensive goods ordered through CDEK Forward by the buyer from Moscow. At the rate of for December, 2020 it is about one million rubles. The second place in the list of expensive goods was taken by the compact processor for 4,499 dollars which went to Yoshkar-Ola.

Total weight of all sendings issued in 2020 was 92,839 kilograms, or nearly 93 tons. So, for example, the African elephant on average weighs 6 tons, a big whale shark about 30 tons, and a blue whale — about 150 tons. So CDEK Forward delivered 15 elephants, 3 whale sharks or one teenage whale.

The combined kayak with an oar ordered from America to Moscow was the heaviest goods. Sending weighed 33 kg. And the frame from the Planet X Pro Carbon bicycle delivered to Cheboksary became the most volume. Parameters of sending were 64х64х64 cm.

Most of all goods were purchased by residents of Moscow, Krasnodar was the city following in popularity in the list, and St. Petersburg closed top three. In top-5 shopping cities Makhachkala and Yekaterinburg also entered.

Using CDEK Forward service any can order the goods delivery from foreign online stores. It is enough to buyer to be registered, receive the warehouse SDEK address in other country and to send there the purchases. After a goods receipt on a warehouse the client needs to report instructions for further actions (to integrate everything in one sending or to send on separateness, to delete packaging, and td.) and to designate a delivery address in Russia.

The CDEK Forward service works and develops since 2018. For December, 2020 warehouses SDEK exist in such countries as the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland and in many others. Delivery time will take 7 days, and it is possible to monitor sending throughout all way.

In a year we managed is total to change the industry of forwarders and to set new standards of work. We opened 7 warehouses worldwide, automated a set of processes for convenience of clients, added several functions, and it only the beginning of our way. — the CDEK Forward project manager Ovsep Osipyan told. — We passed the first step and learned to do delivery of the countries of our presence to Russia, and in 2021 we are going to make service really global and international, having started delivery between all countries where is or there will be our warehouses. So, for example, the buyer will be able to order to himself goods from Italy and Germany to America or from Turkey and Thailand to Poland. Our main goal: start service in the majority of the countries and connect them among themselves using CDEK Forward.