Amazon.com, America’s top e-commerce company, is rapidly but quietly reshaping tradeflows on the transpacific, becoming a discreet top 10 non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC) over the past year and putting the business models of traditional freight forwarders on edge as a hybrid between a logistics provider and a cargo owner.
According to data compiled by Steve Ferreira, CEO of New York-headquartered Ocean Audit, Amazon's ocean freight logistics division, AMZD, is moving an average of...