Consolidation in the 3PL industry: why is it happening, and what does it mean?

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Long but interesting analysis of the current wave of merger and acquisition activity taking place in the logistics industry. DC Velocity has surveyed a company chief executives in Asia, North America and Europe and found that, although they expect major M& A activity in the coming year, paradoxically many have brought a halt to their own activity for three mains reasons: companies they might have targeted for acquisition were overpriced; caution of post-acquisition integration problems; and finally the fact that ...