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Marie-Christine Lombard has faced many disruptions during her 10 years running France-based freight-forwarder Geodis SA. Rarely have they been as complex as what the company coped with in 2022, when Geodis juggled pandemic-driven congestion across global supply chains as well as the reverberations of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as key connections between Asia and Europe were cut off. The company’s scale as the world’s 10th largest freight-forwarder by revenue, according to Armstrong & Associates Inc., exposed Geodis to the forces of global upheaval while providing the business the flexibility to adjust and even expand its growth through acquisitions. Ms. Lombard...
