Amazon has already employed drones to get the parcels delivered to customers as soon as possible and this effort now goes to great lengths with …
Putting thousands of its own truck trailers on the road. On Friday morning, the ever-ambitious online retailer had announced of purchasing “thousands” of truck trailers,
in the wake of their rapid growth in business in North America and increasing their shipping capacity to move cargo to Africa and rest of the world.
Where will they deliver packages?
Well, they will not be used for door-t0-door cargo delivery to customers, instead they will be utilised to transport packages from one Amazon warehouse – also known as fulfilment centre – to another, also between warehouses and sort centres.
The sort centre is the place where Amazon organises the parcels by zip code so they can be delivered to the local post offices for further delivery to the customers.
How good is Amazon doing?
Impressively well. Amazon’s North American retail business is doing so well that in the third quarter, the revenue of this unit grew 35 per cent. It is also due to the growth of Amazon’s Prime membership program – which is hugely popular – and apparel categories.
This latest initiative is aimed at taking more control over company’s time to deliver goods into customer’s hands quickly and safely. Amazon will continue to utilise its trucking partners to transport merchandises within its fulfilment centre network, and UPS and FedEx for bundle delivery to customer doors.
