  We investigate the transport of energy in a linear chain of two-level quantum
emitters ("atoms") weakly coupled to a blackbody radiation bath. We show that,
simply by displacing one or more atoms from their regular-chain positions, the
efficiency of the energy transport can be considerably amplified of at least
one order of magnitude. Besides, in configurations providing an efficiency
greater than $100\%$ , the distance between the two last atoms of the chain can
be up to 20 times larger than the one in the regular chain, thus achieving a
much longer-range energy transport. By performing both a stationary and
time-dependent analysis, we ascribe this effect to an elementary block of three
atoms, playing the role of excitation injector from the blackbody bath to the
extraction site. By considering chains with up to 7 atoms, we also show that
the amplification is robust and can be further enhanced up to $1400\%$.
