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Maersk Line has begun its promised digitisation revolution, launching an online container shipment booking system on the world’s largest e-commerce platform – Alibaba.
Aimed at small and medium Chinese exporters, and offering a way to effectively bypass the services of the thousands of freight forwarders whose business depend one brokering freight space on box ships leaving China on behalf of manufacturers, the service launched on Alibaba’s OneTouch booking portal.
OneTouch offers import and export services such as customs clearance and logistics services, ...
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Alka Thakur
January 05, 2017 at 3:34 amMy question….
Is this meant for the Chinese sellers on Alibaba shipping their products to the customers worldwide?
Will this support shipping even single items especially to India?
Thanks
Alka
Gavin van Marle
January 05, 2017 at 9:33 amHi Alka,
Yep – this is meant for Chinese manufacturers & exporters selling products on Alibaba to international customers. How that works in terms of FCL and LCL consignment sizes I’m afraid I’m not currently sure. I can find out.
Gavin