{"id":2357,"date":"2018-02-14T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/amazon-poised-to-launch-own-delivery-fleet\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:48:39","slug":"amazon-poised-to-launch-own-delivery-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/amazon-poised-to-launch-own-delivery-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Poised to Launch Own Delivery Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent moves by Amazon have led some industry observers to speculate the online retailer is poised to launch its own parcel delivery service soon, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u00ab\u00a0Shipping with Amazon,\u00a0\u00bb or SWA, the service will involve the online retailer picking up parcels from businesses and shipping them to consumers. It&rsquo;s expected to roll out in Los Angeles in the coming weeks, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>WSJ says Amazon has been straining the capability of existing P&amp;D companies with the sheer volume of its online sales and could be ramping up to follow through on its previously speculated intention to launch a proprietary P&amp;D fleet. Reports indicate the online retail giant recently leased 40 air freight aircraft and begun arranging maritime freight shipments from China while quietly building up a new force of urban delivery drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-it-would-take-amazon-to-become-ups-or-fedex-1518264001?mod=djemlogistics\">WSJ story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent moves by Amazon have led some industry observers to speculate the online retailer is poised to launch its own parcel delivery service soon, according to the Wall Street Journal&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[813,1111,1112,1113],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-conditions","tag-amazon","tag-pd","tag-parcel-delivery","tag-urban"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}