Amazon recently announced it has signed a deal to lease 20 aircraft to handle its deliveries in the USA. The lease is set to last 5-7 years, the lessor being Air Transport Services Group Inc. In 2014, the company spent$8.7 billion on shipping alone while relying on carriers like UPS and FedEx to deliver most of its packages. Although Amazon claims this leasing deal poses little threat to the leading delivery companies, RBC Capital Markets analyst John Barnes, expressed in a client note that this development is “an incremental negative for FDX and UPS as it will likely remove some higher yielding express freight and parcel volume from each of the respective networks.” According to an Amazon spokeswoman, the leased planes will start to operate on April 1st.
Publications
- Bilateral Knee Arthrodesis in a Patient With Common Variable Immunodeficiency
- Cellular tolerance to pulsed heating
- Cellular tolerance to pulsed hyperthermia
- Continuous infusion of UHMWPE particles induces increased bone macrophages and osteolysis
- Direct visualization of cardiac radiofrequency ablation lesions
- Molecular profile of osteoprogenitor cells seeded on allograft bone
- Patents
- Role of the Toll-like receptor pathway in the recognition of orthopedic implant wear-debris particles
- Visualizing ablation gaps in vitro using a deflectable fiber optic endocardial visualization catheter