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Supply chain radar: Market talk and rumours – lies, damn lies, and corporate logistics

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By Alessandro Pasetti

03/05/2019

The past two weeks have confirmed that logistics really is a fascinating world – one where Søren Skou, the CEO of the largest ocean carrier in the world by many metrics, says the group is not a threat for freight forwarders, only a few weeks after the company had announced the purchase of a customs house brokerage firm.

And then, in the following quarter, it emerged this week, it invested $30m in a German digital forwarder that many in the marketplace think ...

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