Restructuring

Market Insight: The Toll Group horror show, one nasty piece at a time

That Japan Post doesn’t know what to do with Australia’s Toll Group is well known and on everybody’s lips in my logistics circles.
When Michael Byrne was still leading this horror show, the company told Premium that managers were committed to turn things around, as if they had both plenty of time and the necessary resources to act swiftly and sort out the trouble they found themselves in.
When I talked to the company, …

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Market Insight: Kuehne + Nagel rumoured to quicken its Asia restructure as trade wars bite

It doesn’t surprise you to hear that all the major 3PLs are tightening their belts in a market where uncertainty and headline/trade war risk reign. Right?
Then, it should surprise you even less that the world’s leading ocean freight forwarder, Kuehne + Nagel (K+N), is working hard to pursue operational efficiency, mainly in Asia, according to my trade sources, where changes in terms of operational structure and chain of control are …

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Supply chain radar: Is bellwether Kuehne + Nagel losing its mojo?

The bearish mood in the marketplace is pretty all-pervasive when it comes to sharing views on the latest corporate restructuring being implemented by Kuehne + Nagel, with a raft of trade sources singling out senior executives as being part of structural corporate problems the Swiss behemoth faces.
It’s a fierce attack both from the inside and the outside: once the crown jewel of freight forwarding, and still a benchmark in so …

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Market Insight Exclusive: Revealed – the AP Møller-Maersk Group reorganisation

I have spent so much time on the Damco story over the past few weeks that I almost overlooked the bigger picture. But, luckily, I have ended up catching a much larger fish – below you will find details of the corporate reorganisation of Damco’s owner, AP Møller-Maersk Group (APMM), effective 1 January 2019, which has been obtained by The Loadstar but has yet to be announced publicly – at least to my knowledge.

 
My …

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