Tag: Norway

time:matters Enters into Partnership with Scandinavian Sameday Market Leader Jetpak

time:matters is now offering its customers a sameday delivery service to and from the Scandinavian region. The new service is a result of a close partnership recently established between time:matters and Jetpak, the market leader for sameday services in Scandinavia.

Due to the new partnership, approximately 100 additional destinations for urgent incoming and outgoing shipments are available in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The new destinations include North European commercial centers such as Stockholm, Oslo, and Copenhagen as well as cities like Göteborg and Billund. The new partnership reduces delivery times between the most important business centers and in Scandinavia and in Europe. For example, the shipment of urgent documents or goods between cities like Göteborg and Düsseldorf takes only three hours, and only four hours from Stockholm to Zurich and vice versa. “Business relations between Scandinavia and the other European countries are continuously increasing, which means there is a rising demand for rapid and individual logistics solutions. Thanks to the new partnership, we are optimally able to fulfill these needs,” says Erik Lautmann, CEO of Jetpak.

The broad range of services are based on exclusive and customized dispatch and transportation solutions developed jointly by time:matters and Jetpak as well as on the integration of the tight and high-frequency networks of the two partners. Other benefits of the new partnership for customers include the long opening hours of the Jetpak drop-off and pick-up locations – including early morning and late night hours, which gives customers maximum flexibility in their timing.

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Norway Post to buy Sweden’s Transflex Group

Norway Post has entered into a contract to buy all the shares in Transflex, a Swedish transport and logistics group. This acquisition will strengthen the position of Norway Post and Nor-Cargo in the Nordic region and within the field of international land transport.

The purchase of Transflex is part of the Norway Post Group’s strategy of expanding within the Nordic region. This transaction emphasizes Norway Post’s ambition of getting a foothold in Sweden and becoming one of the four largest logistics companies in the Nordic region.

Transflex was established in 1998 and has operations in Halmstad, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Jönköping and Linköping. It has 75 employees and achieved revenue of SEK 417 million in 2006. Transflex has grown dramatically since its formation and is one of this industry’s most profitable and well-run players.

The Transflex Group will become a part of Norway Post’s logistics network in Sweden together with refrigerated-transport company Frigoscandia, courier and express delivery company Box and Nor-Cargo’s Swedish operations. The acquisition of Transflex will strengthen Norway Post’s and Nor-Cargo’s
opportunities to establish a strong international network based in Southern Sweden.

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Norwegian postal service ranks poorly

A recent survey of European postal services showed that only 82.4 percent of first-class, so-called “A” letters mailed in Norway were delivered on time last year. The Norwegian postal service is supposed to deliver domestic first-class mail overnight.

Most other European postal services could report that more than 90 percent of first-class mail arrived on time.

Only Latvia and Germany had slower postal service than Norway. Twenty other countries had faster service.

Norwegian postal delivery has also gotten slower in recent years. Between 2001 and 2005, as much as 87 percent of A-post was delivered overnight.

A spokesman for Posten Norge admitted service wasn’t good enough in Norway. He claimed, though, that Norway’s large land area, isolated settlements and geography made mail delivery more difficult in Norway than elsewhere.

Postal rates just went up again, meanwhile. It now costs NOK 7 (about USD 1.10) to mail a domestic letter in Norway, nearly three times what it costs in, for example, the US.

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