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.

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Straining?

[QuietLagoon]

...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.

Thank you Trump

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

They are not creating 2,000 jobs, duh.

[drinkypoo]

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.