Alibaba pumps billions more dollars into China’s brick-and-mortar market [VIDEO]
Is Alibaba taking a page out of Amazon.com’s playbook? Alibaba Group announced this morning that it will acquire a 36.2...
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Flexport prepares first charter flight with Atlas
It’s been only two and a half years since Flexport began operations as an online forwarder, but they have already...
EMO Trans opens Vietnam outpost as China manufacturing moves south of the border
As manufacturers shift operations from China to Vietnam in search of lower labor costs, logistics operations are following suit. New...
Shopify, UPS cut deal to lower rates for online retailers
Christmas is coming early for smaller retailers looking to boost online sales. A UPS-Shopify rate deal puts smaller retailers one...
CEVA pushes deeper into the pharmaceutical logistics industry
CEVA Logistics has opened a refurbished, 132,000-square-foot facility at Redditch, in the U.K., bolstering CEVAs footprint in the pharmaceutical logistics...
Switzerland’s floating exchange rate drives up cross-border e-commerce
Switzerland is a microcosm of cross-border e-commerce, with its multi-cultural population (German, French, and Italian speaking), non-European Union customs and...
ANA first Japan-based carrier to earn CEIV-Pharma cert
Interest in developing a more reliable cool-chain in Asia continued this month, as All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the first...
DHL expands Hong Kong hub as China market heats up
With last week’s 11/11 e-commerce holiday just the latest in a series of broken records for e-commerce volumes, companies are...
