Comment / Analysis: Panalpina and CH Robinson, unlikely suitors but well-matched

Atlas Air/Panalpina

I have had an imaginary conversation playing in my head over the past week, between Charles Henry Robinson and Ernst Göhner, founders of CH Robinson and Panalpina respectively. I have been wondering how they would have got on; speculating whether they would have found much common ground – although that would have been unlikely given that Mr Göhner was just nine years old when Mr Robinson died a mere four years after he had formed the company that still bears his name.

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