Panalpina

Panalpina, legally Panalpina Welttransport Holding AG, was a Swiss logistics company until 2019. It is now part of DSV Panalpina.

Panalpina
TypePrivate
SIX: PWTN
IndustryTransport
Founded1935
HeadquartersCopenhagen
Key people
Jens Bjørn Andersen, CEO
ProductsFreight forwarding services
Logistic services
RevenueCHF8.172 billion (2016)
Number of employees
15,000 (2017)
Websitewww.dsv.com/en

Overview
Panalpina's Boeing 747-8F parked at the cargo hangar of Huntsville International Airport.

Panalpina provided freight forwarding and logistics services, intercontinental air and ocean freight and associated supply chain management. It employed 15,000 people worldwide with hubs in Luxembourg, at Findel Airport, Prague and in Huntsville, Alabama, at Huntsville International Airport. The aircraft fleet composed of one Boeing 747-8F. Panalpina offers services to various industry verticals such as Hi-Tech, Automotive, Telecom, Retail&Fashion, Healthcare as well as Oil and Gas. Panalpina had wet leased or ACMI (aircraft, complete crew, maintenance, and insurance) agreements with cargo airline Atlas Air Cargo, naming one Boeing 747 the "Spirit of Panalpina".[1] This arrangement ceased in July 2020 with the loss of around 88 jobs.[2]

Panalpina was fully owned by the Ernst Göhner Foundation until its public listing on the SWX Swiss Exchange on 22 September 2005. In 2005, Panalpina acquired Janco Oilfield Services in Singapore and Overseas Shipping Group in Norway.

In 2010, Panalpina agreed to resolve foreign bribery investigations and to pay more than $80 million in penalties. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission investigated whether the company had paid foreign officials to speed drilling rigs and other equipment through customs.[3]

In 2017, the company acquired two companies in Germany and the Netherlands, respectively, to extend its network in the perishables business. In 2019, after wide speculations circled around a possible merger of competitor DSV A/S and Panalpina, an agreement was announced on April 1, 2019 valued at CHF 4.6 billion (€ 4.1 billion).[4] In effect Panalpina has been taken over by DSV (contrary to the "joining forces" statement) with the transaction completing in August 2019. The Panalpina C-Level has been entirely replaced,[5] with former CEO Stefan Karlen ending a 21-year association with the old Panalpina business.[6] At DSV's extraordinary general meeting on 24 September 2019, the shareholders voted to change the name of DSV A/S to DSV Panalpina A/S.

As part of the restructuring, DSV has decommissioned some old Panalpina IT systems (such as SAP TM in favour of CargoWise), resulting in job cuts across the new organisation. This also extends to relocating the head office to Copenhagen, effectively ending the tenure of Basel as the main company headquarters.[7]

The Panalpina logo placed on the roof of the head office in Viaduktstrasse, Basel was taken down in May 2020.[8]

References
  1. "Panalpina and Atlas Air extend partnership". Payload Asia. 1 November 2009. Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  2. "DSV Panalpina ends freighter contract with Atlas, with more staff set to go". The Loadstar. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  3. "Oil Services Companies and a Freight Forwarding Company Agree to Resolve Foreign Bribery Investigations and to Pay More Than $156 Million in Criminal Penalties". www.justice.gov. United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  4. "Panalpina and DSV agree to join forces". DSV A/S. 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
  5. "Panalpina, DSV merger compels major cuts in former leadership".
  6. "DSV completes its acquisition of Panalpina". Air Cargo Eye. 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  7. "DSV Panalpina warns of job cuts during restructure". Air Cargo News. 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  8. "Market talk: anger and sadness as Panalpina sign falls at Basel HQ". The Loadstar. 2020-06-08. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
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