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Amazon To Build $1.5 Billion Air Cargo Hub In Kentucky, Creating Around 2,000 New Jobs (techcrunch.com)
Amazon is planning to build a $1.5 billion air cargo hub in a spot that crossed the Cincinnati and Kentucky border, according to the Wall Street Journal. When the project is completed, it will eventually result in around 2,000 total new jobs. TechCrunch reports: The new hub is designed to help provide a home for its increasingly large fleet of at least 40 cargo planes, a group of vehicles it perviously revealed it was leasing under the name of Amazon Prime Air, complete with Amazon exterior paint jobs. The planes are designed to help Amazon handle its increasing transportation needs, which are growing as its share of global retail business increases, and straining the capacities and capabilities of its shipping partners, which include FedEx and UPS. Amazon has long maintained that it's not looking to compete with other logistics providers, but it recently became an ocean cargo shipping company, with the ability to act as a "freight forwarder," services that FedEx and UPS also offer. Amazon still hopes to eventually offer services both to itself and to outside companies and retailers, which would put it in direct competition with its current partners, according to the WSJ's sources.
Amazon is a brutal employer, and these jobs should be viewed with caution as they are likely for very low pay, long hours, minimal benefits, and agressively being automated away. Really a job with them should be an absolute last resort. If these are the kinds of jobs Trump is going to bring us, we're better off going back to living off the grid.
...straining the capacities and capabilities of its shipping partners, which include FedEx and UPS...
I'm fairly sure that both FedEx and UPS would be more than happy to build out their respective fleet if they knew that Amazon would not leave them hanging, as Amazon apparently is doing.
Such as electronic propulsion or a solar roof on the cargo ship?
Thank you, Mr. President.
Also, anyone else think it's fucking hilarious that UC Davis, Berkley is now the hypocritical hub of American Fascism, instead of the bastion of free speech it was for 60 years?
"will occupy a spot that crosses the Cincinnati and Kentucky border"
Odd, one's city and the other's a state. And the border between them is a river - hard to build an airport across a river.
Turns out that's wrong - they're building a facility at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport. Since the article is just paraphrased from an original by the WSJ (paywalled), I suspect the original said something like "near Cincinnati, across the border in Kentucky", and the person paraphrasing is an idiot (Darrell Etherington).
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
This is across the river and south of Cincinnati. Eat more goetta!
Remember: For every job created here at least one other is being laid off somewhere else. It will _not_ create new jobs.
They would have to be increasing their shipping output to create 2,000 new jobs. Instead, they are relocating most of those jobs (from other companies, in fact) which means a lot of people are going to get laid off from shipping companies currently doing their work and only a percentage of them will end up re-hired by Amazon. It will save Amazon money by making them more efficient and cutting out the profit going to the middleman, but it's not going to create jobs.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
He is creating so many new jobs!
Shitty, low-paying, physically-demanding no-future jobs? Sounds perfect for white men.
I thought the Ohio River separated the two states.
Not that this would stop them, but it seems mighty inconvenient.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Considering the size of the investment. Not a surprise, there will not be any significant job-creation in the US industry ever again. That is unless a total collapse happens.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I'd have thought it was quite difficult to build on land that moves around like that.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I'm not tired of all this winning.
I'm fairly sure that both FedEx and UPS would be more than happy to build out their respective fleet if they knew that Amazon would not leave them hanging, as Amazon apparently is doing.
I'm sure they would. Problem is that they necessarily have to make a profit and Amazon would rather keep that money for themselves if they can. This margin leakage is why companies sometimes find it valuable to vertically integrate. Unless the supplier can provide the service at a substantially lower cost then there is no reason to outsource the work. Most companies don't find if worthwhile to build their own delivery networks but for companies like Amazon or Walmart it can make very real fiscal sense. You need a certain minimum scale for it to be economically worthwhile but the savings can be substantial.
Honestly I'd expect Amazon to continue to vertically integrate their delivery and logistics systems as they continue to grow. It will make it harder and harder for anyone to compete with them because they can move product cheaper than anyone else. Walmart has used basically the same tactic for decades now. They invested in their logistics while their competitors ignored it until Walmart had an almost insurmountable price advantage over most of them.
Now how are they going to get 1990 Mexicans and ten H1B Indians to work there, I wonder.
Just try to call Customer Service.
Robots answer and when you do get a biologic, they answer like robots.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
And a few Stukey's, I hear. The only good thing about passing through Kentucky, is LEAVING Kentucky. What kind of name is Kentucky, anyway!
I looked at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on Google and saw that there is already a large facility for DHL there. Is Amazon buying it out, or are they going to build an additional large facility there?
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
What's so special about this facility that would make it cost $1.5 Billion?
Ground Effect container carriers, that's why they need access to the river.
Now I'm wondering if a 200-ton robot WiG craft could successfully HOP the bridges on the Mississippi. Not sure if that would be impressive or terrifying. Probably both.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Woo Hoo! 2000 shitty paying jobs in slave-like working conditions. Woot!
Do you know what spot crosses the Cincinnati and Kentucky border? The Ohio River. Are they building a floating warehouse? The author should have done some more homework before writing that they will build on land that does not exist. The source of the confusion may be that the airport that services the Cincinnati region is in Kentucky. Local politicians fighting kept it from being built in Ohio. It is like the New York football stadium which is actually in New Jersey. Another thing that makes that airport confusing is that its abbreviation is CVG, which stands for Covington when the airport is in Florence, but Florence really wasn't a thing yet when the airport was started.
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Gotta watch out for those pervy airplanes! They can be revealing.
Amazon is planning to build a $1.5 billion air cargo hub in a spot that crossed the Cincinnati and Kentucky border
They do know there's a big river right there, don't they?
... short FedEx and UPS shares. Amazon gunna whoop their ass.