‘The Scandinavian A-Player’

INVEStORS IN MSK ‘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 POSITIV 1/2021 ǀ 53