Next week, a minor corporate earthquake will ripple through Copenhagen when a Swede takes effective control of one of Denmark’s most important companies, AP Moller-Maersk.
Not that it will be noticed by many other than those who are paid to take a close interest in such things.
In time, however, the appointment of a non-Dane to a key position may come to be seen as a decisive moment in fashioning the future shape of one of the world’s major shipping and ports groups.
