{"id":63847,"date":"2016-02-09T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=63847"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:34:00","slug":"amazon-is-making-a-big-play-to-surpass-fedex-and-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/amazon-is-making-a-big-play-to-surpass-fedex-and-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is making a big play to surpass Fedex and UPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amazon<\/p>\n

Leaked documents from Amazon show that the company is about to make a big play at surpassing Fedex and UPS as America’s largest shipping company.<\/p>\n

Analysts have known for a while that Amazon has big plans for its\u00a0global shipping and logistics business but leaked documents discovered by Bloomberg’s Spencer Soper<\/a>, show plans on a more grand scale.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Bloomberg unearthed internal documents from 2013 that laid out Amazon’s plan to build a global delivery network that will compete directly with its biggest shipping partners.<\/p>\n

Amazon is calling the project, Dragon Boat, and it is meant to create a “Global Supply Chain by Amazon.” The project could be fully launched before the end of 2016.<\/p>\n

According to leaked documents, Dragon Boat is touting a \u201crevolutionary system that will automate the entire international supply chain and eliminate much of the legacy waste associated with document handling and freight booking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSellers will no longer book with DHL, UPS or Fedex but will book directly with Amazon,\u201d the report writes, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

It was recently reported that Amazon has acquired a group of delivery truck trailers, freight ships, and delivery flights.<\/p>\n

During its most recent 10-K filing Amazon for the first time referred to itself as a transportation service provider.<\/p>\n

Amazon CFO\u00a0Brian Olsavsky\u00a0has said rumors of a full-fledged logistics business are not true. Instead he says the company wants to “supplement” its existing partners,<\/span>\u00a0not “replace” them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the full Bloomberg report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leaked documents from Amazon show that the company is about to make a big play at surpassing Fedex and UPS as America’s largest shipping company. Analysts have known for a while that Amazon has big plans for its\u00a0global shipping and logistics business but leaked documents discovered by Bloomberg’s Spencer Soper, show plans on a more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":63848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7677],"tags":[3156,9956,9958,3437,9957,9344],"class_list":{"0":"post-63847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-retail","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-amazon-delivery","10":"tag-delivery","11":"tag-fedex","12":"tag-logistics","13":"tag-ups"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63849,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847\/revisions\/63849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}