Comment / M&A radar: Mærsk spree... LF Logistics $3.6bn buy – 'boisterous insanity'?

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On Monday, quickly sifting through the 99,999-plus-unread-emails in my inbox (screen grab below) I thought: the M&A binge outside logistics looks so good and widespread, anyway, that something must be fundamentally broken but we’ll soon have our ’glory days’ in supply chain.

Ohhh, if grandma was still around.

Then

Tuesday came with the MSC/BAL asset-based €5.7bn announcement and today we were incredibly pleased to find out, given the M&A news flow, that AP Møller-Mærsk (APMM) – which disclosed its much-awaited deal in ...

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