Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Amazon adds ocean freight to the pieces of the shipping puzzle it controls

NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 22: A fully loaded cargo ship heads into New York Harbor on August 22, 2016 in New York City. The continued global economic slowdown, especially the financial difficulties in China, have hurt profits in the global shipping business. With growth in the industry expected to be near zero this year, hundreds of cargo ships are being sent to the scrap heap prematurely in an effort to cut capacity and raise prices for shipping. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Amazon has begun shipping products from Chinese merchant partners to its U.S. warehouses via ocean freighters, the Wall Street Journal reports. This is something it used to outsource exclusively, and another piece of the overall shipping and logistics picture that it’s now controlling directly, at least in part. Amazon doesn’t own ships, or employ crews, but it now acts as a… Read More

from Amazon – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/amazon-adds-ocean-freight-to-the-pieces-of-the-shipping-puzzle-it-controls/?ncid=rss
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