UPS establishes strategic alliance with Alibaba.com

UPS has formed a strategic alliance with AliExpress (www.aliexpress.com), a new online wholesale marketplace launched by Alibaba.com, the world's largest small business e-commerce company, reported the Manila Bulletin.

AliExpress allows customers to tailor orders to the needs of their small businesses, offering smaller-quantity orders, instant online transactions and an escrow service to protect buyers and sellers.

Through its alliance with UPS, AliExpress now offers users the key benefit of managing their shipping and tracking processes online via UPS shipping technology integrated into the AliExpress platform, including the ability to print UPS shipping labels and request pick-up for their UPS packages all from within the AliExpress website.

(Source: Cargo News Asia)