The general public is well aware of the continuing development of autonomous vehicles - the media constantly provides stories on the advances of these self-driving cars, trucks and cabs. While not receiving the same media amount of coverage, the technology for autonomous ships is also rapidly developing.

Yikes. No way. Holy Moly. Those are the top three polite reactions to the results of the just-released 2017 MPI Distribution and Logistics study.

Some 84 percent of businesses have suffered supplier failure over the last three years, according to a report.