Amazon gets its own brand of air cargo plane with 39 others to follow - Keeping the promise faster delivery to customers, Amazon.com unve...
Keeping the promise faster delivery to customers, Amazon.com unveiled Amazon One Thursday, the company first brand air cargo plane.
The online retailer said the first aircraft brand will be presented the weekend at Seafair Air Show in Seattle. The Boeing 767-300, seen in this video being painted with the logos Amazon, is one of the 40 planes that the company has agreed to rent via air freight partners Services Group Atlas Air and the airline and will be deployed on the next two years.
Amazon currently has 11 aircraft dedicated to flying it, Amazon One with the first of the fleet to the brand, Amanda Ip, a spokesman for Amazon, wrote in an email .
into air logistics of the company suggests that it wants more control and greater efficiency in the movement of its products in the background. It is unclear at this stage whether the new network could minimize the impact of the current line links Amazon with UPS and FedEx. "We use a variety of media and expect to continue to do so," said Ip.
Amazon has experienced new ways to accelerate the delivery of parcels to its customers, including the use of drones for home deliveries. The air freight service has name Prime Air the company has given its drone service, which has been delayed pending the relevant regulations of the US Federal Aviation Administration. "Prime Air is a family of programs that we use to steal packages - Air cargo aircraft and drone our innovative program," said Ip
Having focused so far largely on. distribution centers and supply chain, Amazon is now the address side of the transport operations, wrote Dave Clark, senior vice president of Amazon's worldwide operations, in a blog post.
the flat network using Amazon serve customers and the company is optimistic about the efficiency it will provide, including with regard to cost, Ip said. "These aircraft will be used to complete and secure additional capacity to support the delivery of one and two days for our growing number of early members, "she added.
Amazon, which has more than 125 distribution centers and more than 20 sorting centers, which using hi-technology, including robotics to speed up deliveries, has in the past also introduced a dedicated network of 4,000 trailers to increase the trucking capacity, and a program called Amazon Flex, a service-based application that allows drivers who are not employed by the company to sign up to deliver packages to Amazon via the application.
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