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. ➤
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Africa
Cainiao partners Ethiopian for China’s Covid-19 vaccine transport
Cainiao Smart Logistics Network is partnering Ethiopian Airlines to launch a special cold chain air freight solution for temperature-controlled medicines from Shenzhen Airport (SCX), including Covid-19 vaccines. ➤
Airports
Air China Cargo & Cainiao boost presence at Liege
Air China Cargo Airlines and Alibaba’s Cainiao Smart Logistics Network start a new international Cross-border e-commerce route aimed at speeding up average delivery times between China and Europe. The first B777 Freighter flight landed at ➤
Asia Pacific
Cainiao qaudrupling charter flights over next nine months
Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, the logistics arm of Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce player will be quadrupling Cainiao’s fleet of chartered flights from 260 to 1,260 over the next nine months. This will help reduce its ➤
Airports
HKG exploring new transhipment/intermodal facilities
Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) is exploring the development of new transhipment and intermodal air cargo handling facilities in the airside Eastern Support Area of the three-runway system. The Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) says ➤
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 ➤
Asia Pacific
Cainiao sets new 11.11 delivery records, as parcels pop 1 billion
Cainiao Smart Logistics Network breaks its own delivery-speed record for this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, shaving nearly five hours from the time required to deliver the first 100 million packages in 2017. It took ➤
Asia Pacific
Cainiao partnership on green logistics wins int’l funding for expansion
A public-private partnership between Cainiao Smart Logistics Network and the China Environmental Protection Foundation (CEPF) has been awarded USD 1.0 million in funding to expand an ongoing green logistics cities programme in China. Alibaba’s logistics ➤