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The air cargo industry must change to meet growing demand from rapidly expanding cross-border e-commerce, Alibaba’s logistics unit, Cainiao, said today.

Steven Li, Cainiao’s director of Strategic Partnerships, said one-third of the $3trn global e-commerce market is cross-border trade, which is growing faster than domestic sales.

“This ...

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  • Jaakko Elovaara

    April 22, 2016 at 8:57 am

    Interesting and topical article. This challenge is very much about data integration and visibility, shared real-time with all stakeholders. Youredi has a proven, most cost-effective solution on the market for this need, that can be leveraged without any scalability limitations globally by any party touching the physical process. Agility, speed and ROI are justified.