Category: Logistics

Retail Asia13/04/2018
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Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has gone live with its new Cargo Management System (CMS) version, called Hermes 5 (H5), at ALS Cargo Terminal Co., Ltd (ALSC), Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam. H5, which will be rolled out globally, future proofs Hermes’ CMS application by modernising its framework to allow for simpler integration with […]

Retail Asia13/04/2018
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Robotics and supply chain automation company, GreyOrange announced the appointment of Dieter Berz-Voege as Chief Executive Officer, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). “Dieter is a key addition to our leadership team as Europe is a major growth region for us,” said Samay Kohli, Co-Founder and Group CEO of GreyOrange. “His experience in successfully designing […]

Retail Asia11/04/2018
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Rising competition and costs in China saw Kerry Logistics’ business on the mainland decline in 2017, with the Hong Kong-listed third-party logistics provider (3PL) planning to increase its focus on cross-border trade to capitalize on Asia’s rapidly growing e-commerce market. More than 78 percent of the group profit is derived from its integrated logistics division, which covers e-commerce […]

Retail Asia11/04/2018
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Paris-based French and Cambodian startup ShopRunBack was launched in 2014 and has been revolutionising returns management for e-merchants and retailers, it is established by a group of experts in e-commerce, supply chain and the latest web technologies. ShopRunBack is looking to expand into Asia, especially Southeast Asia, and Cambodia is the starting point for a […]

Retail Asia05/04/2018
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Maersk Line may have captured the headlines with its new focus on becoming a global provider of integrated container logistics, but it is a strategy that China’s Cosco has been pushing for the last couple of years with increasing assertiveness. Cosco Shipping Holdings, China’s largest shipping company, has continued to aggressively expand into landside logistics, building on […]

Retail Asia03/04/2018
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Launched in January 2018, the DHL Global Trade Barometer uses large amounts of logistics data to forecast demand for the next three months. In its second report, the barometer increased to 66 points, up from 64 points in January. According to DHL, an index value above 50 signals solid positive growth for global trade, while the increase […]

Retail Asia02/04/2018
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A delivery service launched by DHL eCommerce that makes use of shops as drop-off points has received a boost with the participation of nationwide retailer SE-ED Book Center.The logistics operator yesterday said the operator of the bookstore chain was joining its domestic delivery service known as e ServicePoints, tapping demand in the fast-growing e-commerce sector. […]

Retail Asia02/04/2018
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Today, FedEx announced the acquisition of UK-based P2P Mailing Limited for £92 million, in a move that bolsters the global integrator’s worldwide e-commerce delivery capabilities. P2P facilitates cross-border e-commerce deliveries with an asset-light model that relies on a proprietary IT platform to string together final-mile delivery and customs partners in different regions to deliver e-commerce […]

Retail Asia02/04/2018
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DHL is making headway in Southeast Asia’s highly competitive ground shipping market largely by adopting a so-called microdelivery model employing motorcycles. In the two years since entering Thailand’s door-to-door-delivery sector, DHL has built up a network of 200 service locations and will raise the tally to at least 1,000 this year. It has also amassed […]

Retail Asia27/03/2018
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DHL eCommerce launched a same-day and next-day delivery service for online retailers that is targeted to compete with Amazon, FedEx Corp., UPS Inc., and the U.S. Postal Service. The Parcel Metro service is a network of local and regional delivery vendors and crowd-sourced drivers and vehicles designed to ensure flexibility and capacity in last-mile deliveries, […]

Retail Asia27/03/2018
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DHL Express, the worldwide leader in logistics and express delivery, today opened its new regional hub at Brussels Airport. The state-of-the-art hub is equipped with the most recent logistics technology and will almost quadruple the capacity of DHL Express in Brussels to 42,000 shipments per hour. The hub, an investment of over 140 million euros […]

Retail Asia23/03/2018
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Hong Kong based on-demand delivery app Lalamove is firmly in the driving seat when it comes to leading the last-mile market, including B2B, B2C and C2C deliveries; revealing impressive data in 2018 to show a fast-track journey of success since the company was first set-up in 2013 by entrepreneur Chow Shing Yuk. In the last […]

Retail Asia20/03/2018
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One-year old sensor technology and parcel locker start up, Parcel Santa, has inked an agreement with Singapore Press Holdings and Buzz Express to utilize the latter’s extensive delivery network to make e-commerce deliveries to Parcel Santa lockers, located in Singapore condominiums. Parcel recipients will be informed via SMS when their parcels are delivered to secured […]


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