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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 Asia27/08/2021

Alphabet-owned Wing has said that it will hit a landmark of 100,000 drone deliveries over the weekend. This news comes after two years of the launch of service in the Australian city of Logan which only has 300,000 people. This is happening at a time where there are reports stating that Amazon’s plans of drone […]

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Retail Asia12/08/2021

Many HCMC residents have reported paying higher fees for transporting goods from their hometowns to the city compared to the pre-Covid period. Hoa in Ho Chi Minh City’s Go Vap District said that amid the city’s strict social distancing order, she had recently told relatives in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum to send […]

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Retail Asia05/07/2021

Kerry Logistics Network Limited (‘Kerry Logistics Network’; Stock Code 0636.HK) is honoured to be recognised as one of the “Most Honored Companies” in Institutional Investor’s annual All-Asia (ex-Japan) Executive Team rankings for the sixth consecutive year. It was also ranked in the top three in five categories under the Transportation sector. Kerry Logistics Network and […]

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Retail Asia01/07/2021

Express delivery giants like DHL and UPS are increasing their transport capacity to Vietnam thanks to rising demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Germany-headquartered DHL Express recently announced a new delivery route from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City using wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft. There would be six one-way trips a week, each with […]

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Retail Asia22/06/2021

DB Schenker and urban mobility air firm, Volocopter, have teamed up to develop solutions for the fast and emission-free transport of goods using heavylift drones. Volocopter exhibited its test VoloDrone aircraft, along with a sample transport container from DB Schenker, at Germany’s National Aviation Conference last week. In a statement, DB Schenker said the heavylift drone, which […]

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Retail Asia09/06/2021

A fully-fledged cargo airline in Vietnam would boost logistics development and stir up competition in the aviation sector amid an e-commerce boom, experts say. “Vietnam needs a cargo airline to boost the transport of goods domestically and internationally. It will bring about many economic benefits,” said aviation expert Nguyen Thien Thong. He was commenting on […]

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Retail Asia26/04/2021

High costs and delivery failure rates continue to plague local logistics companies, which are unable to compete with foreign-owned rivals. Dao Trong Khoa, vice president of the Vietnam Logistics Business Association (VLBA), said the cost of logistics in Vietnam is equivalent to 20 percent of GDP while the global average is around 11 percent. The […]

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Retail Asia08/04/2021

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Vietnamese businesses are once again struggling to get containers to export their goods amid a global imbalance in the logistics sector. Bui Thi Ngoc Tuyen, deputy director of Bich Chi Food Company in the southern province of Dong Thap, said as empty containers have become scarcer, prices have tripled. “We struggle to get enough containers […]

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Retail Asia25/03/2021

William MA, Group Managing Director of KLN Group, said, “The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to everything from global public health to people’s livelihoods. The stop-and-go momentum of the global economy has caused severe disruption to the global supply chain. With human mobility severely curtailed, the role of logistics has become ever more paramount. […]

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Retail Asia18/02/2021

Vietnam has jumped three spots to eighth in this year’s global index of emerging logistics markets after emerging as a popular manufacturing hub. The country had an overall score of 5.67 out of 10 in the 2021 Emerging Markets Logistics Index released by leading logistics company Agility. The firm ranked 50 economies based on three […]

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Retail Asia30/12/2020

Malaysia is now ranked the 16th most connected country, according to the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2020. The country is also the second most connected in the East Asia Pacific, behind Singapore which remained as the second most connected nation in the world. “Besides ranking countries on their actual level of globalization, we compare actual […]

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Retail Asia15/12/2020

Kerry Logistics Network Limited (‘Kerry Logistics Network’; Stock Code 0636.HK) is the proud recipient of the Corporate Green Governance Award – Corporate Leadership at the Hong Kong Green Awards 2020 (the ‘Awards’), recognised for its excellent commitment and outstanding execution in the area of green governance policies and implementation. Inaugurated in 2010, the Awards are […]

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Retail Asia02/12/2020

Capitaland has divested three malls in Japan and an office building in South Korea for a total of S$448.7 million, as part of its ongoing portfolio reconstitution strategy, it said Tuesday morning in an exchange filing. It also announced that it has made its first foray into Japan’s logistics sector, entering into a joint venture […]

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Retail Asia29/11/2020

Two of the world’s biggest express operators are beefing-up their Asia Pacific operations amid an “historic” peak season for e-commerce cargo. DHL Express said today it would invest €690m ($813m) to increase capacity in the key growth markets of Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, India and Bangladesh. It will also spend €60m on […]

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Retail Asia05/11/2020

DHL Supply Chain has appointed Edmund Hsiung as managing director for its South Korea business. Hsiung, who has relocated to Seoul, will manage the business operations across 11 facilities, and oversee business strategy, new business development, expansion, and accelerate digitalization projects in the country. With more than three decades of experience in the logistics industry, […]

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Retail Asia03/11/2020

Kerry Logistics Network Limited (‘Kerry Logistics’; Stock Code 0636.HK) has been honored as the recipient of the ESG Leading Enterprises 2020 Award (the ‘Award’), organized by Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition and co-presented by Deloitte, for the second year in a row. Kerry Logistics won in the category of enterprises with a market capitalization of over HK$20 […]

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Retail Asia29/10/2020

DHL Express plans to move into a new cargo building at Hartsfield-Jackson International and create a “gateway to the Southeast” as it expands its presence in the region. DHL Express, which serves the U.S. market with only international shipments, saw a nearly 60% year-over-year increase in shipping volume in Atlanta for the March-July period as consumers increasingly shop online […]

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Retail Asia20/10/2020

DHL Express Asia Pacific, the world’s leading express service provider, was honored with the 2020 Special Award for Resiliency at this year’s IDC Digital Transformation Awards (DX Awards). The special award, introduced for the first time in the awards’ four-year history, recognizes organizations that have used digital transformation to address the challenges of Covid-19 and […]

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Retail Asia29/09/2020

DHL Global Forwarding has launched an air freight charter connecting Asia Pacific to Europe and the US to meet demand from customers in the technology, manufacturing, and life science and healthcare sectors. Managed by StarBroker, DHL Global Forwarding’s in-house charter team, the twice-weekly charter originates from Chongqing, China, and flies to Amsterdam, Netherlands; Chicago, United […]

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