Slowdown in telecoms gets integrators talking
Integrators are notoriously reluctant to reveal who their customers are, or to talk about slowing business. But the well-publicised worldwide downturn in the telecoms market, one of Finland’s biggest exports, has brought them out of the closet.
Henrik Lindahi, DHL Finland’s commercial manager, says: “There is a decrease in demand in the hi-tech market. Shipments of heavy machinery that support the telecoms industry have more or less disappeared.”
DHL offers a next-day service throughout Europe, a same-day to Germany, the UK and Nordic countries and operates two nightly flights out of Helsinki to Brussels and Cologne. Connections to the other key Finnish markets are through Copenhagen, with a nightly flight stopping at Tampere, in central Finland, and Oulu, the northern city at the heart of Finland’s telecoms industry.
