'Mærsk-quits-Schenker' effect? Short-lived!
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During the Easter break my sources wouldn’t add many details to the “colour” they had already shared on DB Schenker’s prospects in the past six months (click here, here and here), when the discussions, almost inevitably, leaned towards the next deal-making wave in the freight forwarding (FF) industry.
Yet several contacts noted that noise in the local press that parent company, Deutsche Bahn (DB), is troubled, so DB Schenker (DBS), is the chief asset to monetise – just confirmed that the FF jungle is ...
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