https://www.brookings.edu/research/...de-and-metropolitan-economies-2/#interactives the gulf is exports of grain and oil. im no oil expert but i think we're simultaneously importing certain types of oil and exporting other types. west coast is lots of imports from asia, which is extremely heavy on electronics atlantic is heavy on automobile components, machinery and chemicals from europe. I'm not sure what we export to europe but i think it is oriented more towards agricultural products, wood, paper, natural gas.
The Cincinnati package had multiple components (real estate, income), but the biggest is tied to job creation and employment tax. Ohio and Kentucky have agreed to supplement. Assuming the job estimates are correct, it will be a little over a billion from the city and a little under $2 billion total. The estimate is $110-130 million a year over 15 years. I guess I shouldn't have said outbid. The tax package is going to be comparable to whatever else is offered.
Amazon doesn’t allow contractors to use their bathrooms until the building is 100% complete and occupied by their employees. They have to use their own port-a-johns until then. Let’s keep pretending they’re a great company
It's under consideration but the city offered a pretty poor package compared to a lot of other places. Denver has a lot going for it, though, so I wouldn't rule it out.
Having just gone through the construction of two buildings no way should contractors be allowed to use the inside bathrooms. At one building the bathrooms had to be boarded shut because they kept damaging them so badly.
If they think I'm going to let a sex pervert into my house and let them sniff my underwear then hooo boy they got another thing coming
I would imagine they use air freight for a majority of things. Half the phones we send out come from China too and we use air freight far more than ocean freight. In short, I doubt the port is going to be a priority over their other wants.
Ok that may be for phones and similar items, but you can get a shitload of phones air freighted in one shipment, thus the cost of shipping per unit is low for a high dollar item. I can tell you this from experience, Amazon along with their suppliers get the vast majority of goods shipped via ocean freight because the cost of a container is far less than air freighting items in.
Yea I guess I didn't really think about all that but still don't think a port is a big factor for this. Or has something come out saying this will be a logistics hub/headquarters? I haven't paid a lot of attention as Nashville isn't anywhere near a top choice.
So Amazon won't let its contractors use the rest rooms, but thinks nothing of allowing couriers in to my living room.
does amazon actually have couriers? or are we talking about letting fedex/ups/usps employees in my house?
It's a really awesome concept. They're also going trying to roll out delivery straight to the trunk of your car.