Supply chain radar: how to make sense of a combined Panalpina + CH Robinson entity

Remember the imaginary conversation playing in my head some time ago between Charles Henry Robinson and Ernst Göhner, founders of CH Robinson (CHRW) and Panalpina (PAN) respectively?

I have been wondering ever since how they would have got on, speculating whether they would have found much common ground – although, as I said a couple of years ago, “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 ...