IN Brief:
- SG Link becomes ShipX following Amilo’s fourth acquisition in four years.
- The integration adds cross-border customs, freight and tracking capability to Amilo’s regional logistics stack.
- Acquired businesses are being migrated towards a common operating and software architecture.
Amilo has completed its fourth acquisition in four years and integrated Vietnam-based cross-border logistics specialist SG Link into its regional operation under the ShipX brand.
The transaction adds international shipping to Amilo’s existing Southeast Asian warehousing, fulfilment, domestic transport, customs and delivery capabilities. SG Link has operated in Vietnam since 2020 and now provides the operating base for the ShipX cross-border service.
The acquisition announcement says ShipX connects Southeast Asian merchants with buyers in more than 220 destinations. Amilo’s current corporate site separately describes the service as reaching more than 190 countries, reflecting different measures of destination coverage rather than a single published network total.
ShipX is aimed particularly at businesses that do not generate enough international freight volume to negotiate the commercial arrangements available to large global shippers. The model pools shipments while combining freight, customs documentation, duties and tracking within one cross-border service.
Amilo already operates warehousing and distribution across Southeast Asian markets and provides order, warehouse and delivery management through its software stack. Folding SG Link into that structure extends the group from regional inventory and domestic distribution further into the international movement that follows fulfilment.
The integration strategy is central to Amilo’s recent acquisition programme. The company says it targets logistics or technology businesses with useful customers, licences, shipping lanes or operating capability and then migrates them towards a common software and operating architecture rather than maintaining a collection of unrelated legacy systems.
That common architecture covers marketplaces, order management, warehousing, transport, customs and delivery. Cross-border logistics often fragments at precisely those interfaces, with merchants using separate providers for fulfilment, forwarding, clearance and final delivery while information moves between several systems.
A shared data layer can reduce that fragmentation if the physical processes follow it. Inventory allocated to an export order has to correspond with the shipment information presented to the carrier, customs documentation and the final delivery record. Errors at one stage can otherwise reappear further along the chain as clearance delays, mismatched tracking or failed delivery events.
Amilo’s regional network currently spans six Southeast Asian markets through warehousing, transport and fulfilment operations or partners. Its public material describes approximately 50,000 square metres of warehouse space and a mix of B2B and B2C distribution, with bonded facilities in Vietnam and Singapore supporting international flows.
ShipX adds another layer to that network rather than replacing the local operations. A merchant can hold stock inside the regional warehouse system, release an international order and move it into a cross-border service without having to construct a new logistics relationship for each destination.
The operating advantage depends on how successfully those acquired processes are standardised. Logistics remains highly local: customs rules, licences, carrier contracts, facility layouts and delivery practices differ between markets. A common software layer can make data and workflows more consistent, but it cannot remove the legal or physical differences between countries.
Amilo is also preparing to use more automation and artificial intelligence across merchant and internal workflows. The company has said those tools should sit on top of stable operations rather than being used to automate processes that remain fragmented, an approach that places systems integration ahead of adding another decision layer.
That sequence is particularly relevant in logistics because software output ultimately has to correspond with physical goods. An automated decision about inventory, customs or delivery is only useful when warehouse records, shipment documentation and carrier events describe the same item accurately.
The acquisition announcement says the combined teams recorded positive growth during the first half of 2026 despite pressure from fuel costs and tariffs, but no revenue, shipment-volume or transaction-value figures were disclosed. Financial terms for the SG Link acquisition also remain undisclosed.
Those omissions make it difficult to judge the scale of the acquired operation from financial measures alone. The immediate change is operational: Amilo now has a cross-border specialist incorporated into ShipX and a fourth acquisition being moved towards the same regional systems architecture.
The next test will be whether that integration produces measurable improvements as the network expands — shorter onboarding, fewer manual hand-offs, more consistent customs and shipment data, and enough pooled volume to make international services competitive for smaller merchants.
Repeated acquisitions can make a logistics group larger quickly. Amilo’s stated model will be judged on whether the common operating stack makes that larger network simpler to use rather than merely adding more businesses behind a single brand.
