SEATTLE, Washington (AP) .- Amazon develizó yesterday the first cargo plane that will take your brand, one of the 40 aircraft will join the fleet own company deal online sales, which increases their control on the network delivery of their products.
the new initiative to speed up the distribution comes at a time when the company, based in Seattle, sees grow the number of packages delivered worldwide. It is estimated that in 2015 moved Amazon packages billion, the same amount as FedEx delivered three years before hundreds of thousands of customers.
Amazon has had problems with the reliability of air freight. In 2013 he returned money to customers who received late their Christmas orders due to bad weather and saturation of Internet sales, which caused delays UPS and FedEx.
Analysts believe it makes sense to Amazon control means of transport used as collateral for customer service that attracts rapid deployment without additional cost. “They are a very large internet retailer,” says Satish Jindel, president of consultancy ShipMatrix logistics. “There is so much volume that whether to add delivery service why pay a fee retail when you can be wholesale? It makes sense. “
The company introduced the ship Prime Air at the annual Seafair. The company leased Boeing forty Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings and Air Transport Services Group Inc. to deliver packages Prime loyalty program.
However, the company says it will continue to work with FedEx, UPS and other partners messaging.
speed
Aircraft as Prime Air allow the company to “maintain our speed faster delivery and lower our costs as the increase our partners Prime continues to rebound, “says Dave Clark, vice president of Global Operations.
Amazon has built numerous distribution centers where employees and robots take items from the shelves and packed for delivery, and buildings more small where packages are organized by zip code for an even faster distribution.
Your network consists of 125 centers worldwide.
the company has not yet plans to transport packages others, but cautions that is constantly evaluating their situation. It has not been shy competing in areas far removed from its roots of e-commerce business.
“Once you have those planes, certainly arises the opportunity of new products for consumers,” says Clark, who adds . “Stay tuned and see what happens in the future”
Amazon Earnings
Reported $ 857 million profit in the second quarter .
Millionaire
This week, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s owner, told policymakers selling one million shares of the company. It is the most lucrative than it has done to date operation and who reports enough money to buy back three times “The Washington Post”
. Source: El País
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