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Comment / Mærsk – the 'ideal buyer' of DB Schenker

Just another deal
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The year started with a bang from those senior sources who helped Premium on 23 November break the news that DB Schenker (DBS) would undertake a corp reorg hinging on larger regional clusters, eventually affecting the internal structure of the foremost 3PL currently on the block.

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Last time we highlighted the (long) odds of a $20bn-plus cash deal by a trade buyer for the whole of DBS was a month a ago, when we wrote: ’A DB Schenker trade buyer for $20bn ...

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