News / Booming cross-border e-commerce driving change in supply chains

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The global e-commerce sector grew 18.2% last year, driven by greater volumes of cross-border traffic, according to new research from logistics consultancy Transport Intelligence.

Ti’s recently published Global e-commerce logistics 2019  e-commerce is moving from simply being business-to-consumer (B2C) into B2B, C2C and even C2B

It says: “The explosive growth in cross-border e-commerce is bringing all stakeholders in the supply chain into direct contact with one another and challenging the status quo.

“Whilst gaining access to millions, if not billions, of new consumers ...