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Agility’s Shipa Freight partners with e-commerce platform DHgate
Beginning with digital support, the deal could grow into cross-border fulfillment, last-mile delivery Agility’s digital innovation arm...
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Raymond STERN
Jul 10, 2021
DHL Express on the rapidly changing Asian market
The express market in Asia is growing rapidly and while that presents an opportunity, capitalising on that growth has its own set of...
Raymond STERN
Jul 5, 2021
Quiet air cargo market confident of strong demand and a peak season this year
The air freight market may be relatively quiet, but “the forecast remains for another peak”, according to Freight Investor Services...
Raymond STERN
Jun 29, 2021
Hellmann and DRONAMICS Plan Pan-European Drone Freight Services
First routes with unmanned cargo drones to start from early 2022. DRONAMICS, the leading middle-mile cargo drone developer and operator...
Raymond STERN
Jun 24, 2021
UAE retail e-commerce market reaches $3.9bn in 2020
In 2020, the apparel and footwear category had the highest share of 33 per cent ($1.3bn) in the UAE retail e-commerce market The UAE...
Raymond STERN
Jun 22, 2021
PIF’s Noon to create hundreds of customer service jobs in Saudi
Saudization of all remote customer service roles in the Kingdom as part of a goal to create around 20,000 job opportunities for citizens...
Raymond STERN
Jun 19, 2021
UAE eCommerce sector tops economic segment in the region
The UAE and Saudi Arabia lead the eCommerce growth in the Middle East. In 2020, these two countries contributed to 75% of the eCommerce...
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Jun 17, 2021
Bosta raises $6.7M to expand e-commerce delivery business across Africa and MENA
Per a recent report by Bain & Co., e-commerce is expected to grow to $28.5 billion in MENA by 2022 from a 2019 value of $8.3 billion....
Raymond STERN
Jun 16, 2021
Noon launches NowNow, a 60-minute on-demand grocery and essentials delivery platform
Noon, the Dubai and Riyadh based ecommerce company has quietly launched an on-demand grocery and essentials delivery platform NowNow in...
Raymond STERN
Jun 13, 2021
What is a Dark stores: How it is shaping the online grocery stores business in KSA
With ever-increasing demand and fluctuating market conditions, the retail business is now competing for customer satisfaction and speed...
Raymond STERN
Jun 2, 2021
Agility-backed Shipa Opens Two e-Commerce Fulfillment Centers in Dubai
Shipa, the digital logistics and e-commerce arm of Agility, announced that is has opened two state-of-the-art e-commerce fulfillment...
Raymond STERN
May 9, 2021
Maersk App Sees Record Use Amid COVID-19
April sees 130,000 business transactions on a weekly basis Record demand for online business transactions has increased the Maersk...
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Apr 21, 2021
Saudi fintech Tamara raises $110 million in record Series A led by Checkout.com
Riyadh-headquartered nine-month-old buy now pay later platform Tamara has raised $110 million in a Series A round led by leading global...
Raymond STERN
Apr 11, 2021
How L.A.'s Container Ship Logjam Highlights Larger Pandemic Supply-Chain Issues | WSJ
An average of 30 container ships a day have been stuck outside the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach just waiting to deliver their...
Raymond STERN
Mar 29, 2021
Dubai’s NOON.COM to reduce prices up to 75% during Ramadan
The discounts are spread across 60,000 products. UAE e-commerce site Noon.com, has announced that its Ramadan noon Daily sale will be...
Raymond STERN
Mar 3, 2021
Getting the price right in logistics, by McKinsey & Company.
From McKinsey & Company's experience, pricing is the lever with the highest impact on logistics providers EBIT. But pricing strategies...
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Mar 1, 2021
FedEx Express delays persist beyond winter storms; company says 'good progress' being made
The snow in Memphis has melted after winter weather pummeled the city in mid-February, but delays from FedEx Express persist. The...
Raymond STERN
Feb 8, 2021
New Digital Operations for the Shipping Industry | McKinsey & Company
In this McKinsey & Company webinar, our panelists discuss how next-generation operations are changing the shipping industry. Within the...
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Feb 6, 2021
Agility and Shipa Launch GCC Cross-Border Express Road Freight
Agility, a leading global logistics provider, and its digital innovation arm Shipa, a trusted last-mile delivery and e-commerce logistics...
Raymond STERN
Jan 25, 2021
Amazon Fulfillment Center Tour with AWS
Amazon’s Fulfillment Centers are wonders of automation, with AWS at their core. Take this Fulfillment Center tour to see how Amazon...
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