The Loadstar

DHL GF: Ocean freight market update

DHL GFF reports that “2018 has seen a significant rise in the cost of fuel, which has squeezed margins for those carriers that were unprepared. In addition, IMO’s 2020 global sulphur cap of 0.5% on marine fuels to come into …


ZH: Watch robot dog deliver a package from autonomous shuttle

ZERO HEDGE writes: “At CES 2019, the transport firm Continental pushed the boundaries of autonomous vehicle technology, showed how a driverless utility van could be used to stage and deploy delivery robot dogs, taking packages from the vehicle to a …




Forbes: what’s ahead for supply chain executives in 2019?

FORBES reports: “climate change will drive innovation” just as “BRICS countries become more strategic” and “on-line retailing will continue to gain market share”, while “Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and predictive analytics will be at the forefront to run …


ZH: The price of empire

ZERO HEDGE: “It’s a striking fact of today’s world that the two rich societies in shocking, swift, sharp decline are America and Britain. Nowhere else in the world, for example, are real income, life expectancy, happiness, and trust all plummeting, …