Amazon opens its entire logistics network to third parties

Published: 2026-05-06 05:01:18 ET AMZN

Published on 05/06/2026 at 05:01 am EDT

From the very first screw or chip straight from the factory to the parcel at the front door: from now on, Amazon is opening up all the transport modalities it has in-house to third parties. That includes, for example, transporting raw materials to factories and transatlantic sea freight.

The e-commerce giant is doing this under the name Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), which was announced earlier this week.

The network naturally includes the Amazon vans that drive up to consumers’ front doors and the lorries that shuttle between warehouses. But Amazon also has its own air fleet, sea freight capacity and storage warehouses between each of these links. This entire infrastructure is being opened up to third parties through ASCS.

With this launch, Amazon is expanding its capacity to support companies in sectors such as healthcare, the automotive industry, manufacturing and retail. In that sense, it is becoming a more formidable competitor to players like DHL, UPS and FedEx.

“Amazon is bringing the infrastructure, intelligence and scale of its supply chain services to businesses around the world, just as Amazon Web Services did for cloud computing,” says Peter Larsen, who is responsible for Amazon Supply Chain Services.

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