News / Maersk launches online container booking platform for smaller Chinese shippers

04/01/2017

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 ...

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Alka Thakur
January 05, 2017 at 3:34 am
My 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

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- Gavin van Marle
  January 05, 2017 at 9:33 am
  Hi 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
  
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