Amazon has officially entered the for-hire air cargo market, making capacity on its large fleet of cargo jets broadly available for the first time to freight forwarders and other businesses after previously providing airlift to a limited set of companies. The creation of a direct sales channel for heavy shipments beyond Amazon’s parcel ecosystem puts the e-commerce platform in position to challenge FedEx and UPS for a greater share of domestic airfreight.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) established its...
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