Freight’s Global 100 Jens-Bjørn Andersen CEO, DSV
management reshuffle. DSV is a Danish transport company, launched in
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1976 by 10 independent hauliers. Through a series of some 38 acquisitions it has achieved a strong international presence. Its largest division continues to be haulage, but it has significant presence in the air and sea freight
ens Bjorn Andersen has led DSV since 2008, when he replaced co-founder and current chairman of the board of directors Kurt Larsen, following a
forwarding business, and also runs DSV Solutions. In 2000, it acquired DFDS Dan Transport Group, but
it was the acquisition of the Dutch Frans Maas group in 2006 that saw it become one of the top three pan-European road transport and logistics suppliers. The company prides itself on being asset-light,
which allows it to be flexible according to demand. It owns no ships or aircraft, and only a few trucks. Andersen also serves as a member of the executive
board. Gianluigi Aponte Founder & CEO, Mediterranean Shipping Company T
he owner and continuing head of Mediterranean Shipping Company is one of the most private individuals in shipping, given the hefty market
share wielded by his company. He launched MSC in 1970, when he and his wife
purchased a conventional cargo ship to work on the trade between Europe and Africa. He built the company into the second largest
container line in the world, largely through exceptionally canny dealing in secondhand tonnage and charter markets. With a total carrying capacity of over 2 million teu,
MSC is second only to Maersk in its power to move markets, reflecting Aponte’s belief that the primary focus for a major container shipping line should be market share.
Frank Appel CEO, Deutsche Post-DHL T
he growth of DHL into the international behemoth it is today is, firstly, a story of the entrepreneurial ingenuity of its founders –
Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn – in California in the 1970s, and secondly, a decade of logistics empire-building by Germany’s Deutsche Post. Chief executive Appel joined DP in 2000, when he
was appointed as MD of corporate development, a role that would have seen him overseeing the integration of DHL during the prolonged acquisition that began in
1998 and concluded in 2002 when it acquired the remaining DHL shares. One of the most complicated mergers then began, as
DHL Express operations were absorbed into Deutsche Post, while the DHL brand itself was rolled out across the company’s expanding freight, logistics and supply chain divisions, leading to the creation of one of the world’s largest logistics companies. Appel was appointed CEO in 2008, with a contract that is set to run until 2012.
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