Amazon Freight continues to lead the industry through scalability and innovation

Over the past several years, Amazon’s transportation innovations have transformed the logistics industry. In fact, Amazon is the only company that has been named on the FreightTech 25 every year since its inception. Most recently, the company ranked third. 

Beyond setting a new precedent for quick delivery times, the company has a track record of creating technology driven logistics solutions to meet their own needs – and sharing those solutions with everyone else. 

Building a scalable, resilient network

Much like Amazon Web Services (AWS) that grew out of Amazon’s own internal needs, Amazon Freight was born from its efforts to give outside businesses access to the same transportation network Amazon uses. When the company started Amazon Freight, the move opened up Amazon’s transportation network, technology and assets to outside businesses, according to Ari Silkey, General Manager of Amazon Freight.

“We’re proud of the transportation network we’ve built for our Amazon customers, and we want to open that up to all shippers. We want to let everyone use the same technology, the same tools and the same capacity we have created to optimize freight movements,” Silkey said. 

With over 60,000 trailers and 20,000 domestic intermodal containers, Amazon Freight is equipped to provide a simple, reliable and flexible transportation option for shippers. The company offe…

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