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‘The Scandinavian A-Player’, Danish

Transport and Logistics Company DSV,

Keeps Growing Despite the Pandemic

The Danish transport and logistics company DSV has been operating in three divisions

in the Czech Republic for twenty-three years. DSV Road arranges both international and domestic

road transport, additionaly partload and groupage services to all European destinations. DSV Air

& Sea provides not only airfreight and seafreight, but also rail and project transport. The youngest,

but the more progressive division from the trio-DSV Solutions-provides logistics and warehousing

services to its customers.

DSV has its branches, hubs and warehouses strategically

located all over the republic. The company keeps growing

thanks to the globally successful M&A strategy. At the

moment, after the finalization of the acquisition of the

Panalpina company, DSV employs almost 600 employees

in the Czech Republic. Its turnover reached more than

3.5 billion Czech crowns in 2020.

Mikael Kjeldgaard

staff stayed healthy, secondly to maintain operations

and safeguard the supply chain. At the beginning

of the pandemic, the seafreight part more or less was not

impacted by the situation. On the contrary, airfreight was

suddenly a totally new market. As roughly 70–90 % of all

passenger flights were cancelled and a large volume of

airfreight was moved to being belly cargo on PAX flights,

we needed to find alternatives. Fortunately, DSV had, after

the merger with Panalpina, a very strong set-up with its

Managing Director, DSV Air & Sea / CEO DSV CZ & SK

Can’t help but ask: how you evaluate

the unpredictable period of the COVID-19 pandemic

and its impact on your business.

The last twelve to fourteen months have for all been very

challenging as nobody really knew what was coming.

First of all, the most important task was to make sure our

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