Amazon bulks up shipping capacity to battle holiday season snarls
Amazon trailer vehicles are seen at Cherbourg Harbour, France, January 21, 2021. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
Oct 25 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc mentioned on Monday it had doubled its container processing capability and secured extra transport storage from ocean freight carriers to attempt to overcome provide chain bottlenecks in time for the vacation purchasing season.
The stop-and-start nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has snarled international provide chains which might be optimized for just-in-time motion of products, whereas labor and tools shortages and an absence of house to retailer merchandise have exacerbated the state of affairs.
Amazon, which plans to rent 150,000 seasonal staff in the US throughout the vacation interval, it had additionally elevated ports of entry throughout its community by 50%.
The e-commerce large is just not the one firm attempting to make use of its scale and deep pockets to muscle its method by means of provide chain complications.
Retailers together with Walmart Inc , Goal Corp and House Depot have mentioned they’re chartering ships to take care of the pandemic-driven slowdown of sea networks that deal with 90% of the world’s commerce.
President Joe Biden earlier this month urged the non-public sector to assist ease provide chain blockages by increasing in a single day operations on the ports to attempt to meet supply wants.
Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Modifying by Shailesh Kuber
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