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Amazon is entering into an agreement for a new last-mile facility in Caddo Parish. This new facility will be approximately 87,000 square feet at the Shreve Park Industrial Campus located off Highway 3132. Launch plans for this delivery station are in the early stages, with construction scheduled to start in the coming weeks.
“Shreveport is a great place to live and work, and we’re pleased to be setting local roots here,” ...
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On June 28, Amazon announced plans to establish a new fulfillment center in Ascheson, Parkland County, some 25 miles west of Edmonton, Alberta. The facility will support Amazon fulfillment/distribution needs across Western Canada.The more than 600,000 square foot Parkland location will be its first robotics facility in Alberta. Despite the ...
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Amazon has purchased 11 Boeing 767-300 aircrafts — seven from Delta and four from WestJet. These will be added to its air fleet by 2022 after undergoing passenger-to-cargo conversions.
The WestJet aircraft are slated to take to the skies with Amazon packages this year.
Amazon took a big leap forward in ...
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Amazon will establish a multi-story robotics fulfillment center in the City of Suffolk, creating 1,000 new jobs, as well as a 650,000-square-foot processing center (cross-dock) in the City of Chesapeake, which will bring 500 new jobs. In addition to the 1,500 direct jobs these two investments will help generate, ...
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Reported by the Wall Street Journal: Amazon.com Inc. has developed a business to handle shipments for its sellers by land and by sea—and soon by air.
The Seattle-based retail giant is planning to offer its sellers in China the ability to fly their goods internationally as air cargo, according to an ...
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Online retail giant Amazon is the latest household name to bring distribution operations to Northeast Florida. The company is establishing an 800,000 square-foot fulfillment center in North Jacksonville.
“Becoming a member of the Jacksonville community is very exciting for us as we grow our presence in Florida. We’re proud to be creating more than ...
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Per its May 5 press release, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. will be providing air cargo services to support Amazon’s package deliveries to its customers. The new agreements are expected to be meaningfully accretive to Atlas Air Worldwide’s earnings and cash flows over time.
“We are excited to begin a strategic ...
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