Comment / Market Insight: DSV + PAN – early closing or not, 'Cheap Charlie' wins it in the modern Viking Ironclad Age (Part III)

Checkmate

By Alessandro Pasetti

12/07/2019

The final Part III of the modern Viking Ironclad Age drama series was always meant to be just a collection of the best quotes of the past two weeks concerning the DSV/Panalpina tale.

But it was overshadowed, at least partly, by the latest market talk (please read: “Something is brewing on the road to heaven…“), according to which DSV might wrap the Sfr5.4bn Panalpina (PAN) deal earlier than expected (see the link above), which has now been confirmed by three sources ...

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