The Loadstar


On the wires: Blue skies smilin’ at ATSG’s Amazon partnership

“In the third quarter, ATSG’s businesses continued to deliver better than expected results, aided by a quarterly record seven deployments of 767 freighter aircraft to its aircraft leasing customers, and by seizing opportunities for charter and cargo ACMI operations to …


BBC: Australia Post boss resigns over luxury watches scandal

BBC reports:

The boss of Australia Post has resigned after authorising a A$20,000 (£10,500; $14,000) gift of luxury watches to four employees as a work reward.

Christine Holgate, chief executive of the national postal service since 2017, had been strongly …


BBC: Covid-19: PM announces four-week England lockdown

BBC reports:

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a second national lockdown for England to prevent a “medical and moral disaster” for the NHS.

He said Christmas may be “very different” but he hoped taking action now would mean families …


EJ: Let’s get real about logistics automation

JOC‘s Eric Johnson writes:
There are going to be fewer jobs in logistics in the future. That’s not me forecasting some sort of global trade and domestic freight demand doomsday scenario. It’s me realizing that the volume and quality of …


Variant Perceptions: the next commodity supercycle

Research house Variant Perceptions writes:

We are on the cusp of a new commodity supercycle. 
There are 3 big secular drivers of this supercycle:
a) The long era of monetary-policy dominance is over, leading to a heightening of inflation risks …


SA: Nasdaq, S&P see their worst week since March

SEEKING ALPHA reports:
Good-not-great megacap earnings combined with jitters about the election and rising COVID cases to send stocks down across the board today.
The S&P 500 (SP500) ended off 1.2%, the Nasdaq (COMP) lost 2.5% and the Dow (DJI) …