Amazon is leasing forty cargo planes to shuttle its own shipments through the air, with a view to enhance its delivery times. And today, it’s launching its initial branded craft, the Amazon One at the SeaFair Air Show in city, wherever the corporate has its headquarters.
The branded Boeing 767-300 incorporates a prime as its tail number (get it?) and can be part of ten different planes that have ab initio been selected as exclusive cargo carriers for the corporate. a lot of planes are going to be supplementary to the fleet over time.
In addition to rushing up deliveries, the introduction of those planes additionally signals Amazon’s dominance within the ecommcerce space.This isn’t the sole mobile initiative the corporate has in mind for upping its logistics game. the corporate has been developing drones for brief unmanned delivery trips; last week, it declared that it had been partnering with the uk government to start testing delivery drone fleets there.
