News / Alibaba extends partnership with KN to cover cross-border B2B shipments

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Kuehne + Nagel this morning signed an agreement with the world’s largest e-commerce platform, Alibaba, to cover B2B volumes.

The memorandum of understanding (MoU) deepens an existing partnership and is further evidence of Alibaba’s strategy of engaging as many logistics service providers and freight carriers as possible – in contrast to Amazon’s apparent preference for controlling as much of its supply chain as possible.

KN and Alibaba already have an arrangement for the e-commerce platform’s sellers to use the 3PL’s air freight and less-than-container ...