SHANGHAI: E-commerce giant Alibaba said on Thursday it would develop a logistics network with China’s dominant state postal carrier, the latest in a series of deals before a planned US listing.

The firm operates China’s most popular online shopping platform, Taobao, which is estimated to hold more than 90 percent of the online market for consumer-to-consumer transactions. But the company has identified delivery problems as a bottleneck for its business.

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