Ecommerce boom may be opening the doors for smugglers
The Loadstar is running a series of reports on the ecommerce sector, which has been ...
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If there was uncertainty before, it should be clear now: FedEx does not want Amazon as a customer. Just two months on from declining to renew its air freight contract with the e-commerce giant, the operator has severed its ground-delivery contract, according to reports in DC Velocity. This year, Amazon has seen its relationships with FedEx, UPS and the US Postal Service deteriorate. Much of this seems to be down to its reliance on these carriers to deliver for its ever-expanding empire, while simultaneously building its own delivery firm to supplant them.
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