News / Cainiao offers cheaper Ningbo-Bangkok delivery to online shoppers

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Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba’s logistics arm, Cainiao Network, is offering customers the option of moving parcels from Ningbo port to the Thai capital, Bangkok.

Operating three times a week, the service will see Bangkok-bound parcels sorted in Cainiao’s consolidation warehouse in Yiwu, in Zhejiang province, before being moved to Ningbo to be shipped to Bangkok.

A contact at Cainiao told The Loadstar the company was not working with a fixed liner operator, although it has an affiliated liner operator, Transfar Shipping.

“We aren’t chartering ...