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15/04/2024 Tim Cook arrives in Vietnam ( Electronics )
15/04/2024 Vietravel Airlines reports first profits in 3 years ( General )

Retail Asia25/07/2022

DHL, a pioneer in the field of sustainable transport and logistics, has announced that it will support Coldplay’s efforts to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 50% during its Music of the Spheres concert tour. While every global music tour requires intensive preparation and complex logistics, Coldplay has added to this complexity by setting an […]

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Retail Asia05/07/2022

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx and one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, announced a new alliance with eBay, a leading e-commerce marketplace platform for fast-growing and established brands worldwide. eBay sellers in the Asia Pacific region can now sign up for a FedEx account and gain access to the full spectrum of […]

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Retail Asia21/06/2022

It is among many businesses that are suffering due to the surge in fuel prices, which threatens to cause inflation and eventually slow down the recovery of the economy hit by two years of Covid-19. RON95 gasoline saw its price increased by another 2.5 percent to a new peak of VND32,370 ($1.39) on June 13. […]

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Retail Asia17/05/2022

Hardy Diec, Managing Director of FedEx Express Indochina, predicts greater demand for innovative logistics models to enhance online to offline customer experience and support swift pivot businesses. What’s the status quo with the logistics industry? Supply chains have never been more important. More than that, reliability and accuracy in these supply chains have now become […]

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Retail Asia02/05/2022

Ninja Van has introduced PUDO (Pick-up Drop-off) franchising into Vietnam, providing local small-cap entrepreneurs a profitable opportunity. Ninja Van’s Agency Sales Network, the official name for Ninja Van Retail’s revolutionary PUDO business, is now expanding, with over 200 agents entering the network. To keep up with the changing pace of the e-commerce market, Ninja Van […]

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Retail Asia25/03/2022

China’s JD Logistics priced new shares issued on Friday (Mar 25) in a US$1.1 billion capital increase at a steep discount to their previous close, triggering a slump in its stock early in the Kong Kong trading session. According to a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing, JD Logistics priced the shares at HK$20.71 each, a discount […]

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Retail Asia15/03/2022

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com on Sunday said that its subsidiary JD Logistics has agreed to buy domestic courier Deppon Logistics. Under the deal, JD Logistics will acquire 99.99% equity stake in Deppon Holdco for a total consideration of about 9 billion yuan ($1.42 billion). Deppon Holdco owns a total of about 66.50% of Deppon Logistics. […]

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Retail Asia03/03/2022

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has recommended that the Ministry of Transport should issue an air transport license to Vietnam’s first proposed cargo carrier, IPP Air Cargo. It said the airline meets all requirements, including 100 percent funded ownership by Vietnamese entities. IPP Air Cargo has a charter capital of VND300 billion ($13.13 million), […]

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Retail Asia01/03/2022

J&T Express, an international express logistics company, announced last week that it has officially entered the Latin American market and successfully launched its network in Mexico. This latest expansion brings J&T Express’ global network coverage to a total of eleven countries, enabling the logistics leader to support its customers to further tap into the e-commerce […]

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Retail Asia22/02/2022

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics introduces a new cost-effective and seamless solution facilitating order fulfillment for international businesses who wish to enter the US market without the need for a domestic fulfillment center or storefront presence. The new Easy eComm model, which is slated to launch this month, serves as a turn-key solution that makes it possible […]

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Retail Asia15/02/2022

The announcement came just days after Capital A revealed plans to reorganize the airline division and diversify in an online press conference. During the conference, Capital A’s chief executive Tony Fernandes said that for the foreseeable short-term future, the focus of AirAsia Aviation Group will be on short-term travel within the Southeast Asian region. The Teleport deal […]

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Retail Asia11/01/2022

International express logistics company J&T Express celebrated its second anniversary in Singapore on 9th January 2022, recording two years of exponential growth and progress, including a year-on-year double digit growth for parcel volumes, and an approximately three-fold increase in the total size of all its warehouses. Tapping into Singapore’s potential as a regional logistics hub, […]

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Retail Asia11/01/2022

Another major global player joins DB Schenker and Lufthansa Cargo on their way towards greener supply chains: Global hardware technology provider Lenovo decided to let fly 20 tons of chargeable weight per week from Shanghai (PVG) to Frankfurt (FRA). The carbon-neutral freighter flight is the only regular full charter connection worldwide which is 100 percent […]

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Retail Asia05/01/2022

Thanks to the rollout of coronavirus vaccines, the global economy is slowly starting to emerge from the pandemic. But Covid-19 has left one very destructive economic issue in its wake: disruption to global supply chains. The rapid spread of the virus in 2020 prompted shutdowns of industries around the world and, while most of us were […]

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Retail Asia30/12/2021

Foreign trade surged 22.6 percent in 2021 to a new high of $668.5 billion despite the supply chain disruptions caused by Covid-19. Exports were up 19 percent at over $336 billion, but domestic companies only accounted for 26.4 percent of it. Over 35 categories of goods saw exports of over $1 billion. Imports grew by […]

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Retail Asia23/12/2021

Container shipping giant Maersk on Wednesday agreed to buy Hong Kong-based LF Logistics for $3.6 billion in an all-cash deal, as it seeks to expand beyond its core ocean freight business. The deal is one of the group’s largest takeovers to date and follows a series of acquisitions including e-commerce firms, a freight forwarder specialising […]

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Retail Asia13/12/2021

Vietnam’s agriculture exports are taking a hit as China maintains a very strict inspections regime at northern border gates as a Covid-19 prevention measure. As of Friday, as many as 4,000 container trucks were stranded at the border gates in Lang Son Province, said Le Thanh Hoa, deputy head of the Department of Processing and […]

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Retail Asia03/12/2021

Deutsche Bahn’s logistics unit Schenker will order almost 1,500 electric trucks from startup Volta Trucks to transport goods from European terminals into city centres and urban areas, the companies said on Tuesday. DB Schenker will use prototype electric trucks in the spring and summer of 2022 in distribution operations, findings from which will be used […]

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Retail Asia30/11/2021

DB Schenker has opened a new office in Vietnam to mark 30 years of orchestrating the logistics industry in the country. A ceremony took place on Nov. 23 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of DB Schenker in Vietnam and the opening of its new corporate office at the Viettel Complex Tower A in Cach Mang […]

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Retail Asia26/11/2021

The Vietnam Maritime Corporation has launched a container shipping route to Malaysia and India. The route from Vietnam’s Hai Phong Port to Malaysia’s Port Klang, India’s Calcutta, Port Klang, and SP-ITC International Container Terminal in HCMC takes 10 days less than foreign shippers’ itineraries, VIMC said. It is the first time Vietnamese container ships are […]

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