Amazon Global Logistics Launches Cross-Border Freight Portal
Amazon Global Logistics has launched the new AGL Program Portal, allowing sellers to obtain instant quotes, compare shipping costs and transit times, and proceed directly to booking.
What are the key facts?
- 1Amazon Global Logistics launched a new cross-border freight portal
- 2The portal supports instant freight quotes and option comparisons
- 3The portal can be used to ship cross-border inventory to Amazon fulfillment centers and AWD
- 4Sellers can proceed directly from a quote to the booking process
What happened?
Amazon Global Logistics (AGL) has launched the new AGL Program Portal for shipping cross-border inventory to Amazon fulfillment centers and Amazon Warehousing and Distribution. The new portal includes a Quick Quote function. Sellers can enter limited information to receive instant freight quotes and compare shipping costs and delivery times. Product releases, operating guides, and transportation updates are also consolidated in the same portal, allowing sellers to proceed directly to booking after receiving a quote. The change is not a rate adjustment, but it will affect cross-border replenishment and logistics decisions, particularly for sellers using FBA, AWD, or replenishing U.S. warehouses from China and other parts of Asia. When using quotes, sellers should also verify whether customs clearance, destination-port charges, duties, fuel surcharges, and final-mile delivery are included to assess the actual delivered-to-warehouse cost.
What does this mean for cross-border sellers?
The AGL Program Portal will help FBA and AWD sellers complete cross-border replenishment quotes, comparisons, and bookings more quickly, but the base quote may not represent the actual delivered-to-warehouse cost. Include customs clearance, destination-port charges, duties, fuel surcharges, and final-mile delivery when comparing options, rather than making decisions based only on the freight rate.
What should sellers do now?
- 1This week, create Quick Quotes in the AGL Program Portal for U.S. replenishment routes using FBA/AWD. Record shipping costs, transit times, and whether customs clearance, destination-port charges, duties, fuel surcharges, and final-mile delivery are included, and create a comparison table.Profit calculator
- 2This week, compare AGL quotes item by item with current freight forwarders, express services, and less-than-container-load ocean services. Select options based on the all-in delivered-to-warehouse cost, complete comparisons for replenishment routes from China or other parts of Asia to the United States, and save the quotes, cost breakdowns, and selected results.Procurement List