News / Amazon moves to Kentucky as its freight and logistics ambitions grow

Amazon is to shift its Prime Air hub from Wilmington, Ohio, home of aircraft supplier ATSG, to Cincinnati, Kentucky.

The move, in which Amazon will invest $1.49bn into its new CVG hub in Hebron, has triggered further speculation on the e-tailer’s growing interest in logistics.

Amazon has agreed a 50-year lease on some 900 acres at the airport, similar to the size of the FedEx hub at Memphis, and expects to create more than 2,000 jobs when the site opens. A spokeswoman ...