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100 days into the job, DSV's new boss faces his biggest task yet

It’s not the controversial Saudi Arabia desert project nor the lack of women in management that is the biggest challenge facing the new chief exec of DSV.
At the end of January, Jens Lund took over as CEO of the world's third-largest freight forwarder. The time since then has not been characterized by major strategic moves, but Lund is already changing DSV from the inside. | Photo: Dsv / Pr
At the end of January, Jens Lund took over as CEO of the world's third-largest freight forwarder. The time since then has not been characterized by major strategic moves, but Lund is already changing DSV from the inside. | Photo: Dsv / Pr
by DAG HOLMSTAD, SEBASTIAN SCHLÜTER JACOBSEN

While a mega project in Saudi Arabia, a private investment with the chairman and the lack of women in senior management have grabbed the headlines during Jens Lund’s first time as the chief executive of DSV, it’s another matter entirely which occupies investors as well as leadership at the company’s headquarters in Hedehusene in Denmark.

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