The DSV Panalpina Group has informed employees at the former Panalpina home office in Basel about its design for the location . As part of the integration , overlapping corporal functions and military position will either be veer or relocate to the headquarters in Denmark , which could result in up to 165 task losses . At the same time , the company intends to expand its logistical footprint in the Basel surface area .
globular shipping and logistics caller DSV is finalising its psychoanalysis of the impact on collective function at the former Panalpina headquarters in Basel , Switzerland , as the integration of Panalpina into the DSV Panalpina Group progress .
“ As we integrate Panalpina into the DSV Panalpina Group , we recognize that there are substantial duplications of corporate functions , ” says Jens Bjørn Andersen , CEO , DSV Panalpina . “ We are also check considerable overlaps in the IT department , as IT systems that will no longer be used in the combined group are phased out . As a result , we are considering several restructuring measures . agree to our analysis , we will not be able to keep off job cuts and the relocation of post to DSV Panalpina ’s headquarters in Denmark . ”
However , DSV Panalpina expects to retain approximately 50 % of Panalpina ’s current head office staff workforce following mop up of the restructuring by the end of Q2 2020 . Retained functions will let in , among others , critical place in Sales , Operations , IT and Innovation .
DSV Panalpina has initiated the necessary interview process in ancestry with Swiss labour law , and has indicated that it will give a first draught of a societal program at the death of the consultation time period . The societal plan direct to delineate measures to reduce job losses and to mitigate their essence . In summation , DSV Panalpina has invited employees to vote on the election of an employee histrionics body in guild to help the dialogue physical process for the social plan . address to employees at the former Panalpina home base last workweek , Group CFO Jens H. Lund reinforced the company ’s loyalty to do all within its reasonable control to discover appropriate solutions for everybody affected .
At the same time , he underlined DSV Panalpina ’s strong interest in retaining a commercial and operable bearing at its Basel federal agency and in expand its logistical footprint in the Basel domain in the mid - term by consolidate desirable operational activities in Switzerland . To that effect , DSV Panalpina has ground contact with central representatives of the Department of Economic , Social and Environmental Affairs of the Canton Basel - Stadt to explore chance for investing in the Basel area .
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