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China’s YTO Express to create hub at Jiaxing

YTO Express has picked Jiaxing in eastern China for its aviation and road logistics hub. The express company will open the hub in 2021, reports ATW, and by 2030 will have capacity of 1.1m tons a year, while acting as …


E*DRAY expands operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach

E*DRAY, the container shipping industry’s first collaborative port logistics technology platform for drayage operations at terminals and container yards, announces that Harbor Trucking Association and Harbor Division flow stacks are now coming online with the E*DRAY platform in the Los …


Tigers Eshop brings portable cooker retailer Cobb to Hong Kong

Supply chain specialist Tigers is fulfiling portable cooker retailer Cobb’s e-commerce requirements in Hong Kong through its online marketplace, the Tigers eShop.
Tigers handles Cobb’s B2C distribution from its e-commerce fulfilment centre in Hong Kong, one of sixteen in the …




Airlines partner up to carry US mail across the world

E-commerce seems likely to be behind two codeshare requests to the US Department of Transport (DoT) for links to China and New Zealand.
Western Global Airlines plans a codeshare with Air New Zealand (ANZ) for carrying mail between the US …


Amazon discovers delivery comes at a price

Monumental growth continues to be part and parcel of Amazon’s existence. This year, though, the e-commerce giant’s transformation into a logistics company has a cost. Transport costs climbed 30.4% in the second quarter and 34.4% in the first half, to …