Enterprises in developed countries commonly focus on the core links of the value chain, actively promoting the socialization of internal logistics activities within their organizations. In recent years, warehousing, transportation, and distribution have become key areas of logistics outsourcing across countries.

Logistics outsourcing has spurred the rapid growth of third-party logistics, emerging as a new field in the logistics market development. Developed countries' third-party logistics exhibit several key characteristics:

(1) Third-party logistics companies generally prioritize customer needs, aiming to deliver "the right product (or service) to the right customer at the right time, in the right quantity, at the right price, and via the right method to the correct location."

(2) Specialization in services. For example, third-party logistics companies in the United States typically have a clear industry positioning.

(3) On the basis of specialization, comprehensive expansion is being pursued. This includes transportation companies venturing into warehousing services, multimodal transport, door-to-door delivery, shipping companies branching into onshore operations, freight forwarding companies delving into offshore activities, acting as agents for each other, or expanding their networks globally.