AMAZON FREIGHT
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s Amazon built its logistics network over the past two decades, it was driven by customer obsession.
Historically, Amazon worked almost exclusively with large, nationwide and established regional delivery and transportation companies. As demand for deliveries grew, the company saw an opportunity to empower thousands of small local logistics businesses to transport and deliver packages to Amazon customers.
Now, Amazon is sharing that hard-won expertise with businesses across Europe through Amazon Freight, a service that allows external shippers to tap into the same network that powers millions of Amazon deliveries.
For Chris Roe, Managing Director of Amazon Freight, this represents a natural evolution of capabilities built over years of solving complex logistics challenges.
“ We’ ve built this network over several years to ensure customers receive what they need, when they need it, wherever they are,” Chris explains.
“ As a result, we’ ve built technology. We built a network that we’ re now looking to share with customers.”
From internal solution to external service Amazon Freight launched in 2019, emerging from Amazon’ s recognition that its internal logistics capabilities could solve problems for businesses far beyond its own operations. Hasan Desuki, Commercial Director for Amazon Freight in Europe, describes
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