Amazon Is Waiting Two Days in the Harbor

Amazon has been quietly chartering private cargo ships, making its on containers and leasing planes to better control the complicated shipping journey of an on line order. Amazon's costly early moves are helping to avoid the long wait times for available dock space and workers on the country's biggest ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach. "Their incentive is to make their business as tream lined iss as efficient as possible, because that's what's going to create the most amount of profit," he says.