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Walmart and JD.com invest $500m in Chinese logistics service

Their governments may be at loggerheads, but it hasn’t stopped China’s JD.com and the US’s Walmart investing half-a-billion dollars in a new joint-venture, according to The South China Morning Post. The money is earmarked for logistics services company Dada-JD Daojia, …


Lax airport checks make illegal wildlife trafficking easier

Lax airport authorities are allowing wildlife traffickers to get away with murder – all too literally. A new report produced by research organisation C4ADS claims traffickers are “highly dependent” on commercial air transport systems to smuggle the endangered species and …


Post-Brexit shipping routes mean spoiled Irish food

Irish food faces spoilage if proposed new shipping routes between the republic and Belgium go ahead in the wake of Brexit. The Irish Times reports that transit times would more than treble, leaving food spoiled before even reaching the continent. …