Amazon pushing hard into ocean shipping, making it easier for Chinese goods to get to you

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Published January 18, 2019

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SAN FRANCISCO – Quietly and below the radar, Amazon has been ramping up its ocean shipping service, sending close to 4.7 million cartons of consumers goods from China to the United States over the past year, records show.

This marks a significant move into what many believe is the company’s overall strategy of eventually controlling much of its transportation network, from trucks to airplanes and now to ships.

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