It's addictive: the logistics of fidget spinners

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By Gavin van Marle

04/10/2017

Last week we recommended you read a headline-grabbing story about Alibaba’s intention to invest $15bn in its logistics network over the next five years, and today we recommend this blog from online freight pricing platform Freightos, which looks at the different approaches the Chinese marketplace and its chief rival, Amazon, take to logistics, as seen through the prism of fidget spinners – which, as any parent will know, are both highly annoying and highly addictive (once the kids have gone to bed).

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