AMERICAN
e-commerce giant Amazon.com has become its own biggest
carrier in the days before Christmas, the company announced, reports New
York's Air Cargo World.
In the US, most deliveries are accomplished this way
while nearly half are delivered by Amazon, a surge in orders UPS and FedEx were
not able to handle.
Amazon
logistics chief Dave Clark said the company would deliver
3.5 billion packages this year, exceeding predictions by Morgan
Stanley analysts who estimated 2.5 billion packages.
Amazon has stocked its warehouses for decades, but once
relied exclusively on the likes of UPS and FedEx to take packages to a
customer's doorstep.
The
Seattle company began to expand its capacity to move packages on its own
following a disastrous 2013 holiday season, when rough weather and logistical
bottlenecks led to missed deliveries and angry shoppers.
Mr Clark says Amazon now contracts with more than 800
delivery service partners, who employ a combined 75,000 drivers in the US. They
take packages from some 150 delivery stations located in major US metropolitan
areas.
Source : HKSG.
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