It´s done: Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS

Barcelona, February 12, 2018.- Do we have any doubt that Amazon will be a global logistics operator?. The Jeff Bezos ecommerce has just taken a small step, for what is already a planned logistics strategy. A few months ago we asked ourselves here:  UPS, FedEx,DHL have a new competitor: Amazon?. Today, the information that has just been published by the major American media (cnet.com) is the following:

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UPS, FedEx,DHL have a new competitor: Amazon?

Amazon poseed to take on UPS, FedEx in delivery business

Barcelona, January 14, 2016.- Amazon intends to buy the remaining 75% of French delivery company Colis Privé. Amazon started as an online bookstore and today can become a logistics operator that competes with UPS, FedEx or DHL. Global technology giants are interested in logistics. What changes will these new logistics competitors ?. The end customer is the main beneficiary with a time of ever shorter delivery ?. What will the reaction of traditional logistics operators ?. Regarding this news release then a magnificent story published by The Seattle Times on 11 January:

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Is it possible to distribute goods with drones?: Google says that in 2017

Barcelona, November 8, 2015.-   Amazon was the first to show a drone like a freight vehicle. Then courier companies have presented their respective projects. And now, Google said that in 2017 will begin his “career drone”. The press says:

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50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020

Madrid, 17 jun 2015.-  The digital publication Transport Topics reported on the impact of the “Internet of Things” in the supply chain. Their conclusions are:

Understanding the Internet of Things impacta on logistics

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