Amazon is building a $1.5 billion hub for its own cargo airline – Recode (Feb 1, 2017)
Yet another story about Amazon’s deepening investment in shipping infrastructure (see also ocean liners). Its Prime Air freight investment is an existing strategy, but Amazon is leasing the planes and has been using existing hubs, whereas this new $1.5 billion investment is to create its own hub in Kentucky. Amazon’s claim that it isn’t looking to compete with UPS gets harder to believe all the time.
via Recode
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