Comment / Against the odds: DSV and Atlas – a high stakes game, investors may fear blood

It’s barely six weeks ago that we were mourning the dull, unsexy decision of DSV to ground for ever the Spirit of Panalpina, its 747 operated by Atlas Air. If you remember, Atlas was said to be pleased: DSV is, so we hear, a tricky customer.

But there is now talk in the air again that DSV misses its own airfreight capacity, and is back knocking on the door in Purchase, New York. Apparently, the “chunk of money” DSV got from its ...