Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes

Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by joe_the_user on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:01PM (#29452541)

This is actually part of the shipping failure. Does Amazon have different ports and different workers unloading things? Read the article and you will see the answer is no.

What Amazon has bought is priority within the massive shipping complex (with ships and port both controlled by the 3-4 cartels). There's nothing they've accomplished here except get an immunity to the problems that actually means the delays get shunted onto other organizations trying to get their stuff. Basically, the very largest monopolies are protecting each other and screwing the medium-sized and little guy operator.

Is Amazon using the Port of Oakland when LA is ultra-busy? No, Amazon stuff is going quick through LA and this automatically means other stuff is going slower.

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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by imajoredinecon on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:10PM (#29452648)

Did you see the other parts in the article about building their own containers and delivering to ports in Houston and Washington state?

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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by op00to on Sunday December 05, 2021 @04:02PM (#29453222)

You really should have read the article, Joe.

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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by papito on Sunday December 05, 2021 @03:11PM (#29452665)

Exactly. You don't need to be particularly inventive if you are sitting on a massive pile of money. Buy priority to stay in business? Sure. Lease a whole fleet of cargo planes? Put it on the tab.

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