Asia Pacific
Cainiao launches $76m open tender for logistics services
Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, the logistics arm of China’s largest e-commerce platform, Alibaba Group, launches its 2021 open tender for logistics services. ➤
Alibaba Group
Asia Pacific
Cainiao delivers same-day boost across 11 Asian countries
Alibaba Group’s logistics arm, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, unveils new logistics technology enabling same-day delivery from China to 11 Asian countries. Cainiao has now fully implemented its ‘Apollo’ proprietary logistics technology across 11 Asian countries, ➤
Features
Cainiao races on in digitalisation of China logistics
Cainiao Smart Logistics Network wants to speed up the digitisation of China’s logistics industry and to help make that happen, the Alibaba affiliate is rolling out a slew of technology, including its new Internet of ➤
Carriers
Volga-Dnepr, Cainiao ink cross-border e-commerce agreement
Volga-Dnepr Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group, with the aim to strengthen its positions in the area of cross-border shipments in the ➤
Airports
Budapest Airport focuses squarely on China and e-commerce
Budapest Airport (BUD) has unveiled an ambitious new growth strategy for Asia, including an additional direct freighter and belly cargo routes to China, as well as enhanced e-commerce capabilities at the Hungarian hub. Scheduled to ➤
Airports
HKIA, Alibaba commit to developing smart logistics network
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA)and the Alibaba Group have committed to working closely to jointly build a global smart logistics network to foster more inclusive trade, focusing on cross-border e-commerce and temperature-controlled products such as ➤
Asia Pacific
Cainiao Logistics steadies itself for Alibaba’s mammoth 11.11 Single’s Day
Cainiao Logistics, the logistics arm of China’s Alibaba Group has finalised its logistics arrangements – including chartering 51 aircraft – for this year’s 11 November Single’s Day, or 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, the largest online ➤
Asia Pacific
YTO Express to build $1.8 billion logistics hub at Jiaxing Airport
Shanghai-based express freight company, YTO Express has signed an investment agreement with Jiaxing City in eastern China to build the company’s new $1.8 billion aviation logistics hub. According to the agreement, the hub will be ➤
Asia Pacific
China’s ZTO Express, Turkish Cargo and PAL Air to establish global integrator
Shanghai-based ZTO Express, Turkish Cargo and Hong Kong GSSA, PAL Air have teamed up to create an international express company focused on door-to-door delivery of express and e-commerce products. The new global express joint venture ➤
Asia Pacific
Alibaba kicks off pre-event to the $18 billion 11:11 main event
Ramping up for the biggest online shopping day of the year – where nearly USD 18 billion was spent in just 24 hours in 2016 – Alibaba Group has launched its 11.11 Global Shopping Festival ➤