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Market notes, product releases, and stories from the lanes we move every day.

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Markets · Q4 2025

Trans-Pacific rates settle into a calmer Q4 — what shippers should do now

Capacity is back, fuel is friendlier, and the calendar is short. A practical playbook for the next eight weeks: when to lock, when to wait, and how to keep your freight audit honest.

Read time: 6 min · Category: Trade lanes

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Product · v3

App v3 brings multi-warehouse inventory to a single dashboard

One screen for nine hubs, with role-based access for your ops team.

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Events

Xingwang joins the Hong Kong Trade & Logistics Summit

Our team will be on stage and at booth B12 for three days of trade conversations.

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Compliance · EU

IOSS thresholds, OSS, and what 2026 means for your EU listings

A short, practical guide to where the thresholds sit, who reports what, and how to avoid the most common compliance mistakes we see in cross-border catalogs.

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Logistics

When air beats sea: a 2026 decision tree for urgent lanes

Five questions to ask before you upgrade a shipment, with worked examples from our Asia–US lanes.

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Sustainability

ESG reporting for cross-border sellers: what you actually need

The CSRD, the CBAM, and the marketplace disclosure rules — distilled into a one-page checklist.

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Retail

The return of the boutique: how small brands are winning again

Three patterns we are seeing from the 2025 holiday season, and what they mean for your 2026 assortment.

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Product

Mobile management apps: the v3 release in detail

What changed, what stayed, and what's next. A walkthrough from the product team.

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Sourcing

Supplier audits that actually catch things

What works, what doesn't, and the small handful of checks that catch 80% of issues before shipment.

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