Amazon Looks Increasingly Serious about Flying Own Air Cargo Planes; US Frackers in Deep Financial Troubles; Supply Chain Demography is Destiny; Dematic May Move Factory South of the Border That’s the number of air cargo flights per week that Amazon.com is continuing to fly in Europe even after the Christmas season rush, with the flights linking Poland, the UK, and Germany. The flights are being carried out by a single B737 chartered on behalf of Amazon by DB Schenker from ASL Aviation France, according to a report this week from the UK’s Lloyd’s Loading List web site. As we reported earlier, Amazon is also said to be negotiating the possible lease of 20 Boeing 767 jets for its own air delivery service in the US, according to a report in The Seattle Times, with a decision likely by the end of January. Amazon is also thought to be behind the 4-5 air cargo flights per week now operated by a third party carrier out of the former DHL/Airborne Express air cargo hub in Wilmington, OH. Will Amazon try to reduce its dependence on UPS/FedEx, and maybe even directly compete for business with these parcel giants for shipments by other companies? It increasingly looks like Yes. That is the number of current US shale oil producers that may go bankrupt in 2016, according to a report this week on cable television’s CNBC. That of course is due to the almost unimaginable collapse of global oil prices, with the price for a barrel of US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) falling briefly below $30 per barrel this week for the first time since 2003. US frackers "need $70 oil to survive," one oil industry expert told CNBC, while others are predicting oil could fall to $20 per barrel or even lower sometime […]