DVZ radar: Dachser CEO's plans – digitisation, acquisitions and positioning
…and how the forwarder can avoid the tariff traps
M&A-related news has appeared with a vengeance lately in the transport and logistics industry, and odds are short there could be more deals for me to analyse in the second quarter – although I acknowledge that the outlook for multi-billion deals in the supply chain remains challenging at best. Sadly.
Limelight
It is not just the bankers’ bread-and-butter deal-making, typically in the sub-$500m region, that is doing the rounds, because DFDS recently hogged the limelight in a sector where an outlier and a player often ...
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