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Tampa International Airport keeps Amazon's Florida warehouses stocked
AMAZON'S two major distribution centres, opened in the past two years, in the greater Tampa Bay has enabled the online retail giant to make same-day delivery available to much of the region and, in some cases, within one hour.
The two facilities, one in Ruskin, the other in Lakeland, coordinate deliveries to large swaths of the southeast by handling millions of packages every week, reports the Tampa Bay Times.
Amazon goods are flown into Tampa International Airport daily aboard a Boeing 767 cargo freighter plane and they're all shuttled away to the nearby warehouses on Amazon trucks, where the merchandise is sorted, packed and shipped to customers' doors.
Amazon's merchandise throughput has increased the Tampa airport's cargo activity by 20 per cent so far this year compared with last year. The deal has generated US$275,500 in revenue for the airport over the past seven months in fees and building rental payments, a number which is expected to double by the end of the year, according to airport records.
The daily flight, which comes to Tampa from Wilmington, Ohio, is part of a national deal that Amazon quietly signed with Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) in September to lease five Boeing 767 cargo planes and use them to move merchandise across the country.
Amazon and ATSG renewed the contract in April and extended the lease to 20 cargo planes. This is the latest move by the online retail giant to have complete control over its user experience.
By controlling the shipping process, Amazon is able to speed up its deliveries and can avoid problems often associated with using third-party vendors, like in 2013 when FedEx and UPS struggled to deliver holiday orders on time.
One of the cargo companies under the ATSG umbrella, Air General Inc leased a 12,546-square-foot warehouse at Tampa International Airport in November, where the Amazon-leased cargo planes unload and store merchandise, according to Hillsborough County Aviation Authority.
The two facilities, one in Ruskin, the other in Lakeland, coordinate deliveries to large swaths of the southeast by handling millions of packages every week, reports the Tampa Bay Times.
Amazon goods are flown into Tampa International Airport daily aboard a Boeing 767 cargo freighter plane and they're all shuttled away to the nearby warehouses on Amazon trucks, where the merchandise is sorted, packed and shipped to customers' doors.
Amazon's merchandise throughput has increased the Tampa airport's cargo activity by 20 per cent so far this year compared with last year. The deal has generated US$275,500 in revenue for the airport over the past seven months in fees and building rental payments, a number which is expected to double by the end of the year, according to airport records.
The daily flight, which comes to Tampa from Wilmington, Ohio, is part of a national deal that Amazon quietly signed with Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) in September to lease five Boeing 767 cargo planes and use them to move merchandise across the country.
Amazon and ATSG renewed the contract in April and extended the lease to 20 cargo planes. This is the latest move by the online retail giant to have complete control over its user experience.
By controlling the shipping process, Amazon is able to speed up its deliveries and can avoid problems often associated with using third-party vendors, like in 2013 when FedEx and UPS struggled to deliver holiday orders on time.
One of the cargo companies under the ATSG umbrella, Air General Inc leased a 12,546-square-foot warehouse at Tampa International Airport in November, where the Amazon-leased cargo planes unload and store merchandise, according to Hillsborough County Aviation Authority.
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