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News on the Logistics Industry in China

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Bridging the gulf

Former Alibaba staffer thrives in the Middle East
Apr 1, 2022 (WiC 579)

What happens if you identify an operating issue that has cut deeply into your company’s profit? The best staff, of course, try to help their companies solve the problem. The most entrepreneurial ones, however, will turn it into an opportunity ...

JD delivers (again)

JD Logistics makes its stock market debut in Hong Kong
May 28, 2021 (WiC 542)

In 2008 private equity investors were looking for the next big thing in China’s e-commerce sector. At that point the 10 year-old JD.com looked like one of the best candidates to challenge Alibaba in online shopping. But the company’s founder ...

New rules to curb couriers’ packaging waste
Apr 23, 2021 (WiC 537)

Chinese delivery companies transported 83 billion parcels last year, generating some 16 million tonnes of waste paper and packaging. Food delivery firms handled 17.1 billion orders, generating mountains of single-use-plastics in rubbish dumps ...

The complete package

How SF Express is going global via its offer for Robert Kuok’s Kerry Logistics
Feb 19, 2021 (WiC 529)

Throughout Chinese history emperors surrounded their heirs with the most trustworthy of court officials in a bid to ensure the longevity of their dynasty. At 97, Robert Kuok is probably the oldest businessman of his generation yet to fully ...

China’s top couriers turn up the heat on fledgling rival Jitu
Nov 6, 2020 (WiC 517)

For delivery firms in China, no other time of the year is more exciting than the Singles’ Day festival. This year the sector will handle an average of 490 million parcels daily between November 11-16, up nearly 28% on the previous year, ...

Timely delivery

E-commerce giant buys KYE to take on Cainiao
Aug 28, 2020 (WiC 508)

When a Shenzhen-based logistics company signed a Hong Kong-born martial arts actor as its brand spokesman in 2015, it probably didn’t realise just how good a deal it had struck. The actor in question, Wu Jing, was only just becoming a household ...

SF Express takes on Meituan and Ele.me
May 22, 2020 (WiC 496)

The delivery business isn’t always very dependable. In New York, 90,000 packages are stolen or disappear without explanation every day, the New York Times reported last year. In China, city residents are finding ways to reduce the failure ...

Duan Yongping delivers?

A new ‘dark horse’ with OPPO links shakes up China’s courier industry
May 8, 2020 (WiC 494)

In the 1990s there were more than 30 Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong. The local consensus was that such a tiny market could house no more new players – that was until Jimmy Lai set up Apple Daily in 1995 and made it one of the ...

China’s migrant workers swap manufacturing lines for delivery mopeds
Mar 15, 2019 (WiC 444)

Foxconn’s boss Terry Gou might well count 2007 as one of the best years of his life. Apple’s Steve Jobs had just launched the iPhone and in doing so was about to make Foxconn the world’s largest contract manufacturer for electronic goods ...

Delivering the goods

ZTO’s says franchise model will underpin its rapid growth
Mar 15, 2019 (WiC 444)

In many markets e-commerce firms only offer free delivery for pricier orders. But China’s vast army of fulfilment staff means that consumers can even get packs of cheap cotton buds delivered to their door for no extra charge. Thriving in the ...

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