Comment / Analysis: Three (nervy) ducks in a (DB Schenker) row – DHL, Kuehne & DSV

You’ll taste blood or just feel sick to death reading what follows.

Bloomberg, which earlier “based on a story from Handelsblatt” – as broker UBS wrote in a note to investors on 4 February – had highlighted DB Schenker’s takeover appeal, yesterday argued: DSV “would be interested” in buying DB Schenker, while “other potential suitors in that space could include…” DHL Global Forwarding and Kuehne + Nagel (K+N).

With talk of preparations being made for a $23bn deal that could be – ...