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In recent months, Amazon began handling ocean shipments to its U.S. warehouses from Chinese merchants selling on its site, and now plans to offer China-based sellers the ability to ship their goods internationally as air cargo.
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.
