Amazon runs its own race as takeover talk in T&L swirls
Meanwhile, please don’t exaggerate the UPS effect
It takes a huge leap of faith – or just a blind leap – at the moment to suggest the mere thought that M&A could happen and be transformational, too, in freight forwarding (FF) and, more broadly, shipping and logistics. Fine.
Yet the latest wild rumours about a change of ownership at a mid-sized forwarder like JAS Worldwide – a very unlikely sell, I insist – has elicited sharply divergent views across a number of sources, with the bulls overly keen, I reckon, to ...
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