News / Supply chain relief as rail service turns land-locked Laos into a land-linked hub

The massive road freight congestion on the Vietnam-China border is causing major headaches for intra-Asia cargo flows, with planes, and now trains, helping pick up the slack.

On Tuesday, Alibaba logistics unit Cainiao said it had launched a daily charter flight between Ho Chi Minh City and Nanning to “safeguard” the cross-border logistics of e-commerce customers.

This was necessary, it said, due to the congestion on Vietnam’s border with China, where up to 6,000 trucks have been waiting over the past month, ...