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Amazon plans to launch air freight service for Chinese sellers
By Laura Stevens and Erica E. Phillips Published: Mar 15, 2017 8:08 a.m. ET WSJ.com Amazon.com Inc. has developed a business to handle shipments for its sellers by land and by sea—and soon by air. The Seattle-based retail giant is planning to offer its sellers in China the ability to fly their goods internationally as air cargo, according to an Amazon Logistics site. The move is an expansion of Amazon’s AMZN, +0.05% growing business as a global freight forwarder and third-party logistics company, putting it more directly in competition with companies like United Parcel Service Inc. UPS, +0.85% and Deutsche Post AG’s DPW, +0.52% DHL. In recent months, Amazon began handling the shipment of goods by ocean to its U.S. warehouses from Chinese merchants selling on its site, taking on a role it had previously left to global freight-transportation companies. Amazon’s entry into the market is “a huge wake-up call to an industry that’s been very slow to adopt technology,” said Ryan Petersen, chief executive of Flexport Inc., a San Francisco-based startup freight-forwarder that uses software to scrub inefficiencies from the process of arranging international cargo shipments for small- and midsize companies. Many traditional freight forwarders still conduct their business via phone, email or even fax machine, but Amazon’s entrance into the sector could drive shippers away from that method in favor of a user-friendly technology platform. Petersen said at least one of his firm’s customers has used Amazon’s service—now a direct competitor to Flexport’s technology—to arrange an ocean freight shipment. |
Now the rumors of Amazon buying/leasing B-777's has a backing....
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Amazon Plans Air Cargo Service for Chinese Customers
Amazon previously tried to buy the Frankfurt-Hahn airport, has one 737 flying Amazon boxes in Europe, and had previously purchased the pacific container shipping company this article is referencing. |
Originally Posted by Red Baron
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Now the rumors of Amazon buying/leasing B-777's has a backing....
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"Amazon will partner with third-party carriers to build the global enterprise and then gradually squeeze them out once the business reaches sufficient volume and Amazon learns enough to run it on its own, the documents said."
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Originally Posted by Whiplash6
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"Amazon will partner with third-party carriers to build the global enterprise and then gradually squeeze them out once the business reaches sufficient volume and Amazon learns enough to run it on its own, the documents said."
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Looks like they aren't going to take ATSG and Atlas's word on the airplane maintenance- http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/n...html?ana=yahoo
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Originally Posted by Kougarok
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Looks like they aren't going to take ATSG and Atlas's word on the airplane maintenance- http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/n...html?ana=yahoo
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Originally Posted by Kougarok
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Looks like they aren't going to take ATSG and Atlas's word on the airplane maintenance- http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/n...html?ana=yahoo
With the recent PEMCO aquisition and AMES in place, Amazon could be building its maintenance department through their own management team and through acquisitions of the aforementioned companies. |
The more likely scenario is that Amazon drops atsg at some point.
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