Amazon becomes the largest express delivery company in America!
Amazon has become the largest delivery company in the United States, overtaking UPS and FedEx in bags, according to the Wall Street Journal. For the first time, the e-commerce giant has overtaken its rivals in annual deliveries in the United States, according to its latest internal data.
For the past decade, Amazon has quietly built a logistics empire, operating its own cargo fleet, signing contracts with local express delivery companies and opening logistics distribution centers all over the United States.
A decade ago, Amazon was an important customer of UPS and FedEx. Amazon's rise to become the largest delivery company was once considered absurd by logistics CEOs.
In 2016, Fred Smith, the former CEO of FedEx, dismissed the possibility of Amazon becoming a logistics giant, calling it a "fantasy." Smith said at the time, "For the foreseeable future, the main shippers of e-commerce packages will be UPS, the U.S. Postal Service and FedEx.
At the time of Smith's comments, Amazon lagged far behind UPS and FedEx in the express delivery market. But in the years that followed, the company built one of the largest logistics networks in the world, bridging that gap.
亚马逊成为美国最大快递公司!
据《华尔街日报》的报道,亚马逊已经成为美国最大的快递公司,其包裏量超过了UPS和FedEx两家公司。据其最新内部数据显示,这家电商巨头在美国的年度配送量首次超越了其竞争对手。
过去十年来,亚马逊一直在悄悄打造一个物流帝国,运营自己的货运机队,与当地的快递公司签订合同,并在美国各地开设物流配送中心。
十年前,亚马逊还是UPS和FedEx的重要客户。亚马逊崛起成为最大的快递公司曾被物流业的CEO视为是荒谬的。
2016年,FedEx的前任CEO弗雷德·史密斯(Fred Smith)否定了亚马逊成为物流巨头的可能性,称之为“幻想”。史密斯当时说,“在可预见的未来,电子商务包裹的主要运送者将是UPS、美国邮政服务和FedEx。
在史密斯发表言论的时候,亚马逊在快递市场上远远落后于UPS和FedEx。但在随后的几年里,该公司建立了世界上最大的物流网络之一,弥补了这一差距。