Fight for Nordic Post market intensifies

The fight for the Nordic post market has intensified with the Danish and Norwegian post offices, Post Danmark and Posten Norge respectively, forming an alliance against their Swedish counterpart, Posten. Their German counterpart, Deutsche Post, has also entered the fight and will join Pan Nordic Logistics, the Post Danmark-Posten Norge parcel subsidiary, next week.

According to Benny Rhe Hansen, managing director of Pan Nordic, the company currently covers all of the Swedish business-to-business market and up to 60 per cent of the Swedish business-to-consumer market. The new alliance co-operates with TSI, the courier company owned by Posten Norge, and its trade name will be CarryOn. Pan Nordic will possibly become the largest parcel company in Europe after the alliance with Deutsche Post. Posten has acquired the parcel activities of DSV, the Danish logistics company, 50 per cent of Toll-post Globe, its Norwegian counterpart, and entered an alliance with La Poste of France.

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