Comment / View from the forklift: Did DSV just strike its first ever really bad deal with Panalpina?  

“View from the forklift” is a brand new bi-monthly column by Hessel Verhage, president and chief executive of US-based STG Logistics, whose assignment at Loadstar Premium is to focus on deal-making, broader T&L market trends, the inner mechanics of supply chains, as well as the hot topic of “differentiation”, or the lack thereof, for asset-light/heavy logistics companies. This is Hessel’s first column for us.

As someone who has gone through a ~ $1bn trade sale to DSV with UTi Worldwide, and the entire due diligence process, I am ...