WSJ: Amazon plans to offer air cargo shipping for Chinese sellers

Amazon is planning to offer China-based sellers the ability to ship their goods internationally as air cargo, but it is not clear whether the retail giant would be booking airspace via other carriers or flying its own planes.    Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to offer China-based sellers the ability to ship their goods internationally as air cargo, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an Amazon Logistics site.
   The Amazon Logistics site, which focuses on Chinese customers that sell on its site as well as other businesses, says it offers end-to-end one-stop ocean freight services. In recent months, Amazon began handling the shipment of goods by ocean from Chinese merchants selling on its site to the retail giant’s U.S. warehouses, taking on a role it previously left to global freight transportation companies.
   As for airfreight, the site says, “We currently are developing this service, and plan to quickly introduce it to a large number of our sellers.” However, it is not clear whether Amazon would be booking airspace via other carriers, or flying its own planes.
   Amazon previously unveiled its plans to build an air cargo hub at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG) in Hebron, Ky., and said it would lease 40 cargo jets under wet lease agreements with Atlas and Air Transport Services Group, which owns carrier ABX Air.