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Maersk, Alibaba team up to offer online booking service for ship space
January 4, 2017 by publisher · Leave a Comment
The world's largest container shipping line Maersk has teamed up with Alibaba to allow shippers of goods to reserve space on its vessels through the Chinese e-commerce giant, in a move that bypasses traditional middleman freight forwarders. Maersk, a unit of Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk , began offering the service to Chinese shippers on Alibaba's OneTouch booking website on Dec. 22, a spokeswoman for the shipping line said on Wednesday. Shippers traditionally go through freight forwarders to book space on container ships, but …
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Maersk, Alibaba team up to offer online booking service for ship space