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By Alessandro Pasetti

26/06/2025

When DSV finally won Schenker for €14.3bn in September 2024, CEO Jens Lund went on camera talking to Bloomberg about the largest deal ever done in forwarding as if that historic moment were just any other moment.

He calmly talked risk and opportunity, balancing all sides of one game-changing M&A announcement that would have likely gone to the head of any other executive in supply chain, where marketing stunts are often a sour pill to swallow, more so than in other ...

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