Amazon pushes into LTL for small package fulfilment and UPS does a u-turn
Amazon ended speculation about a foray into the LTL sector with an offering for inbound ...
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By Alex Lennane
Amazon has denied it plans to undercut the road freight market with its new digital freight brokerage platform.
Launched this week, the platform sets Amazon against companies such as CH Robinson, which saw its shares suffer following analysis that the e-commerce giant was going to undercut the market.
According to FreightWaves, Amazon’s live trial of its brokerage undercut prices by 26-33%. However, Amazon’s senior PR manager for transportation told The Loadstar: “This service, intended to better utilise our freight network, has been around in various forms for quite some time. The ...
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