Ecommerce 'saves' the air cargo industry - but what about the planet?
Some 786 delegates from upwards of 40 countries attended this year’s EU CBEC ecommerce forum ...
DSV: STAR OF THE WEEKDSV: FLAWLESS EXECUTIONKNIN: ANOTHER LOWWTC: TAKING PROFITMAERSK: HAMMEREDZIM: PAINFUL END OF STRIKE STLA: PAYOUT RISKAMZN: GOING NOWHEREAMZN: SEASONAL PEAK PREPARATIONSJBHT: LVL PARTNERSHIPHD: MACRO READING AND DISCONNECTSTLA: 'FALLING LEAVES'STLA: THE STEEP DROP
DSV: STAR OF THE WEEKDSV: FLAWLESS EXECUTIONKNIN: ANOTHER LOWWTC: TAKING PROFITMAERSK: HAMMEREDZIM: PAINFUL END OF STRIKE STLA: PAYOUT RISKAMZN: GOING NOWHEREAMZN: SEASONAL PEAK PREPARATIONSJBHT: LVL PARTNERSHIPHD: MACRO READING AND DISCONNECTSTLA: 'FALLING LEAVES'STLA: THE STEEP DROP
Fascinating long read from The Guardian on the under-construction logistics hub at Belgium’s Liege Airport for Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. There are a number of moving parts to the story: historically a steel production city, Liege area needs investment to regenerate its economy; meanwhile Alibaba needs a bridgehead in Europe to step up its battle against Amazon; and local politics play a part too, with concerns over noise and pollution as well as the longer-term future logistics in the region. “We cannot build, in the long term, the development of a region on an economic sector as little anchored locally, as easily delocalised, as international logistics,” said one Walloon lobby group.
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