Comment / Against the odds: Sensational DHL – the tide that lifts all animal spirits

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The sun shines bright today, and not only metaphorically, following the release of preliminary results on Monday from Deutsche Post DHL that made the clouds disappear in transport and logistics. Momentarily, at least.

By divine intervention or not, the headline numbers beat the expectations of all those I talked to: DP-DHL set another precedent for others across the supply chain… yes, the three usual suspects, however different by business proposition and corporate developments: DSV, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd. No, Kuehne + Nagel ...