Alibaba looks to invest in Chinese logistics

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By Alex Lennane

11/09/2012

China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba, is beginning to feel the strain as express infrastructure and warehouses are not quite up to scratch for the amount of deliveries it is looking to perform. It is planning to invest $100 million in logistics, but doesn’t want to run its own services, unlike its main rival.

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