FedEx and UPS going nowhere: why Amazon isn’t trying to take their place

The Loadstar’s April Fool story about Amazon buying a fleet of containerships which would simultaneously be able to steam fast and slow at the same time and anchor off the coasts of major population centres in a new definition of near-shoring took in quite a few readers… we’d like to think it was all due to the deft writing and clever ideas, but in all likelihood it was probably because anything about Amazon and its ventures into the logistics sphere ...