Comment / All your eggs in the Schenker basket? 'It's idiotic!'

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Private equity in the driving seat for DB Schenker (DBS)?

The sharks?

If so, let’s spare a thought now, quickly, for the trade buyers left in the race.

“Really!”

To paraphrase, that was the immediate reaction from several quarters in our marketplace in the past few days.

(By way of background, read our ’On the long haul to a market listing?’ out on Friday, 24 May.)

While a few contacts didn’t feel very surprised about the latest insight from Bloomberg, others – me included – are ...