Business & Money | Tuesday 5 January, 2016 4:17 am |

PayPal and Aramex, a leading global logistics and transportation solutions provider, have partnered to create the first complete one-stop cross-border marketplace– www.ishoptheworld.com - offering a unique integrated shipping and payments solution.

 

As part of the integration agreement, www.ishoptheworld.com will be the only such marketplace to give consumers the opportunity to checkout from merchants spread across 15 countries in the MENA region, USA, Europe, South East Asia and Africa at once, meaning that consumers can buy from various merchants, across a range of countries, and pay for all the items at the end in just one transaction.

 

An innovation by Aramex, the new marketplace helps companies export to all destinations where Shop and Ship is active as a service - over 60 cities- offering consumers a wider selection of products not easily available locally. This comes in line with Aramex’s commitment to further growing the e-commerce sector and provide more customers with a highly efficient and convenient online shopping solution, by bridging the global supply chain between sellers and end-buyers.

 

Mazen Mourad, Senior e-Commerce Manager at Aramex, said: “With this innovative marketplace, merchants from across the world - from the US to China - can list easily and free of charge, with no hidden costs such as transaction fees. This is a unique proposition like no other, in the now cluttered b2c marketplaces”. In Addition, “the marketplace eliminates all the hassles of cross-border logistics for the merchants, when it comes to export documentation, customs, clearance and costs”.

 

Kivanc Onan, PayPal's Regional Director for Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa, comments: “Today’s online customers are increasingly discerning when it comes to goods bought online – they search for specific products from specific countries, often unavailable in their home country – and ishoptheworld.com allows these consumers to shop for products from almost anywhere in the world, safer and easier with PayPal.” 

 

Tufina, owner of Enis Tufina, a watch maker in Germany said: “As a business owner, I have been in continuous search for better ways to deliver my products and serve my customers. With being part of the Shop and Ship global network, I have succeeded in boosting my business and reaching to more customers worldwide. They are my trusted partner and I depend on their experience to deliver my products in the most seamless and hassle-free manner.”