Tag: Logistics

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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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 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 Asia14/03/2018
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FedEx said that it has found no evidence that private customer data was “misappropriated” when it was made visible on an unsecured server earlier in February. According to news from Reuters, the server that was made visible contained more than 119,000 scanned documents from U.S. and international citizens, including passports, driver’s licenses and security identification. The potentially compromised […]

Retail Asia20/02/2018
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DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has obtained an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) certification by Indonesia’s customs authority, The Directorate General of Customs and Excise. The AEO certification will allow DHL Global Forwarding Indonesia to provide secure and quality logistics services while offering cost savings that can […]

Retail Asia16/02/2018
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DHL Global Forwarding, the leading international provider of air, sea and road freight services, has appointed Skerry Palanga as Country Manager, Papua New Guinea. With the appointment, Palanga will lead and manage the country’s operations and be responsible for driving its business growth. Prior to this appointment, Palanga was the National Operations Manager where he […]

Retail Asia16/02/2018
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Iruna eLogistics, a logistics startup company, plans to open two new fulfillment centers in Surabaya and Medan by the end of this year as part of its rapid expansion to provide back-end logistics services to Indonesia’s small and medium-sized enterprises. Indonesia’s small and medium-sized businesses have embraced e-commerce and digital marketing platforms to boost sales in […]

Retail Asia31/01/2018
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FedEx customers in the Asia Pacific market have a new e-commerce delivery option. FedEx Express — subsidiary of Memphis-based logistics and delivery powerhouse FedEx Corp. — announced Jan. 23 its FedEx Delivery Manager service would now be offered in Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan (Asia Pacific). Customers using the delivery […]

Retail Asia23/01/2018
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Southeast Asia logistics veteran Vincent Yong is the new Managing Director of Indonesia for DHL Global Forwarding. In a statement issued yesterday (24 July), DHL said that Yong was “no stranger to complicated situations”. The company explained: “As Chief Operating Officer of DHL Global Forwarding Thailand, Yong steered his team through political upheaval in 2006, catastrophic floods in 2011 […]

Retail Asia17/01/2018
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HUBBED has recently partnered with DHL eCommerce to launch the latest and convenient international delivery service. HUBBED is currently offering competitive rates to sellers who are using eBay’s eCommerce platform— and will help them save at least 20 percent on HUBBED’s international standard rates. “We’ve partnered with HUBBED to offer you a competitive international shipping […]

Retail Asia28/12/2017
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Yamato Holdings will partner with Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com to ship products from Japanese retailers throughout China starting in 2018, likely boosting Japanese online sales there. JD.com is China’s second-largest internet retailer, after Alibaba Group Holding, and operates a nationwide delivery network. Yamato will handle international shipping from Japan to China and use JD.com’s network for home delivery […]

Retail Asia21/12/2017
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DHL Express, the world’s leading international express services provider, has been named 2018 Top Employer for Asia Pacific as well as eight countries in the region: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. The award was conferred by Top Employers Institute, a global organization recognizing excellence in employee conditions, making […]


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