FDS Transport has commenced the New Year with a name changing ceremony involving all 19,000 employees across its worldwide offices for the new corporate brand - DSV Air & Sea.

The move is designed to more closely align the corporate branding strategy of the global group of companies to the holding company DSV A/S.

This follows a string of acquisitions in recent years, including JH Bachmann and the latest purchase, Frans Maas, which have driven the need for a common group identity.

DSV Air & Sea is one of three divisions within the DSV group, which also encompasses DSV Road and DSV Solutions and now shares the DSV logo.

In 2006 the group expanded in Asia through the establishment of DSV in Taiwan and India, bringing operations in the Asia Pacific region to 900 employees in 40 offices.

"We are very pleased with developments in the region over the past seven years from when we started in Hong Kong, which today acts as the regional office for the set-up in Asia," said Peter Minor, regional director for Asia, DSV Air & Sea.

"We look positively at a new 2007 and believe our growth will be as evident in this year as in the past and with the new DSV name, giving us all a new strong platform to support our customers in their growth in the region."