Recently, there has been a sense of "paranoia" in Shenzhen's freight forwarding circle.

Since the consecutive releases of the dishonesty list, the nerves in the circle have become increasingly tense, and many practitioners can't help but feel uneasy, fearing that their names will appear in the next announcement.

Recently, with the release of a new batch of dishonest freight forwarding companies, Shenzhen's freight forwarding blacklist has been updated again.

AMZ123 learned that Shenzhen recently released the second batch of dishonest freight forwarding companies and major tax violation blacklists for 2026, with a total of 22 companies being named.

According to the classification of the list, these 22 companies are mainly divided into two categories:

One category is companies listed by the court as dishonest judgment defaulters, totaling 9, mainly involving issues such as failure to fulfill payment obligations, refusal to execute court judgments, and contract disputes. Some companies have even had reward announcements issued.

The other category is companies identified as major tax violation dishonest entities, totaling 13. The related illegal situations are mainly concentrated in tax evasion, issuing false VAT invoices, defrauding export tax refunds, and absconding.

It is worth noting that only one month has passed since the first batch of related dishonest lists was released in March.

AMZ123 understands that after the first batch of 382 freight forwarding blacklists was exposed, discussions among sellers and logistics practitioners have never stopped. In the related comment sections, some people began to name certain companies on the avoidance list, directly stating "they refused to compensate for lost goods before"; others mentioned that some companies on the list were still recruiting normally shortly before the exposure.

At the same time, more sellers are beginning to re-examine their cooperation standards, with compliance, bottom-line protection, and risk resistance being repeatedly mentioned. Some sellers said that they now prefer to find top service providers, "at least they have performance and compensation capabilities when problems really occur".

However, after the release of the first batch of lists, there was not no sense of luck in the industry. Some people think that this is more like a round of concentrated disclosure, and once this batch is released, the storm will pass.

But now, with the first batch in March and the second batch in April, such a publicity rhythm has made more and more people realize that Shenzhen's dishonesty investigation in the freight forwarding industry is not a symbolic action, and regulation is moving towards normalization.

For Shenzhen's freight forwarding circle, as the list continues to be updated, industry screening is also accelerating. As public information such as courts and tax authorities is gradually included in the notification list, dishonest records that were previously scattered across different channels are now more concentratedly presented to the industry. Tax compliance, performance capabilities, and bottom-line protection will receive more attention than before.

Looking at this trend, the reshuffling of the freight forwarding industry will continue.

For sellers, this change is more direct. Freight forwarding is in the middle of the cross-border link, and once this link has problems, it often drags down not only delays and disputes but also goods, funds, customs declaration, and store shipping rhythms.

The batch-by-batch announcement of the list is, after all, also a risk control lesson for the market.

It is worth mentioning that while the list in Shenzhen is still being updated, some people in Yiwu can't hold on any longer.

AMZ123 learned that recently, Yiwu * Ocean International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. issued a notice to its cooperative agents, stating that due to improper management decisions, long-term arrears of freight by customers, and other factors, the company's capital chain has completely broken down, and it is unable to pay related fees to cooperative merchants normally, nor can it continue to carry out regular logistics agency business.

The news quickly spread in Yiwu's freight forwarding circle.

Many cooperative peers mentioned that this result was not sudden. Abnormalities such as container pick-up delays, cargo retention, docking delays, and fee arrears had already appeared one after another before, but at that time, many people still understood it as inspections, cabin positions, or overseas link stuck points, and did not immediately think worse.

According to industry revelations, nearly 200 cooperative peers have been involved. The company said that it has set up a special emergency team to coordinate follow-up for shipped, pending transshipment, and in-transit goods, and will promote debt settlement and asset disposal work.

However, this statement did not really dispel external doubts. The "ransom goods" plan after the suspension of business further escalated the controversy.

According to peer revelations, * Ocean International initially proposed "40 yuan per kilogram ransom goods", then launched a "30 yuan/kg + 20 US dollars out of the warehouse for a pallet" plan, with conditions attached such as "if there is one abandonment of goods, subsequent processing of the customer's goods will not be handled", and also said that the ransom goods need to bear "10 yuan per kilogram of arrears".

In the eyes of many partners, the goods are still pressed, the preliminary fees have been paid, and now the "ransom goods" is essentially continuing to pass down the risk. Many logistics practitioners who cooperate with them also said frankly that the freight and related fees owed by the upstream are far higher than the so-called ransom money, and the related plan is more like a delaying tactic.

So, how did * Ocean International get to this point?

Looking at the current situation, it seems to be a broken capital chain on the surface, but behind it is a routine that is not unfamiliar to Yiwu's freight forwarding circle: the front end keeps receiving goods, the back end relies on advances to turnover, the price keeps pressing down, and the chain becomes tighter and tighter.

Industry insiders mentioned that this type of operation itself is difficult to be supported by normal profits for a long time, and many times can only use the goods and money behind to make up for the unpaid fees in front. On the surface, the volume is still running, but in fact, the pressure has been piling up layer by layer.

According to industry revelations, when the capital chain was already quite tight, * Ocean International was still recruiting goods before the collapse, and even launched activities such as prepayment deposits for discounts and monthly settlement discounts, trying to further attract customers to increase the volume of goods.

Looking back now, these actions are more like buying time for cash flow.

This also reminds sellers and the industry that once freight forwarding has problems, sellers are often the first to be dragged down. The goods are pressed and cannot come out, the money cannot be recovered, and there may be a series of problems such as customs declaration, timeliness, and store shipping rhythm. The little freight saved before is not enough to fill the gap when something really happens.

For the industry, relying on low prices to receive goods and relying on back-end turnover to hold on, this set of tactics is increasingly unable to run.

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Source: AMZ123 Cross-border E-commerce Original link: https://www.amz123.com/t/L9GydPNh