Amazon’s Transport Process And How to Choose Between Air and Ocean Freight
At any given moment, there is an average of 9,782 planes carrying 1.27 million people in the air. Though airlines are used to transport people all across the globe, they are also widely used to transport various items. Everything from toys and tools to medications and food supplies are transported daily via air.
But that's not the only method of transport. There are approximately 6 million shipping containers filled with automobiles, heavy machinery, and much smaller products being transported across the world's oceans.
According to Business Insider, Amazon, a transportation behemoth, increased its worldwide shipping costs fifteenfold from 2009 to 2018, increasing its net sales by sevenfold during that same timeframe. Whether it's through air or sea, Amazon is excelling at global trans...