New services between UK, Spain, Portugal and Italy

NTEX, one of Sweden's largest private freight forwarder, is now investing in fossil-free vehicles. Their first investment is a full-electric truck from Volvo Trucks that will transport goods in the greater Gothenburg area. This investment is expected to lower carbon dioxide emissions by 19.6 tonnes p.a.

Since 2015, NTEX UK has handled and shipped road marking glass beads from Scotland to Sweden and Norway. What started with 30-40 loads per year has developed into 178 loads, so far this year.

NTEX offers a unique logistics service called Carpet Logistics. Focused on carpets, Sweden and Norway are serviced with carpet transports from both the Netherlands and Belgium. In September, seven new box trailers were put into use, completely adapted for Carpet Logistics with better performance and increased safety for the drivers.

We’ve been a member of OPCA (Overseas Project Cargo Association), a global agent network of professional project cargo freight forwarders and logistics companies, since 2016. OPCA serves ”Project Focused Networking Strategy” which refers to gathering project cargo specialists with a background in project cargo field and that are willing to collaborate with fellow agents based on project cargo shipments and management.

In April, Fraktkompaniet established a new distribution facility with domestic service and warehouses in Gislaved in Småland. The facility is shared with the parent company NTEX who in Gislaved has taken over some traffic from Borås and now handles traffic to and from Norway, Finland, the Baltics and Central Europe.

Two years ago, NTEX initiated a collaboration with the customs management experts Ecus in the customs handling of transport to and from Norway. When NTEX’s Customs Manager, Jenny Wallberg, visited the Customs Podcast at the beginning of the year, she talked about how the collaboration has now expanded to the UK, and the company's customs handling in connection with Brexit.

It is now official that NTEX acquires Gothenburg-based JEK Forwarding AB, a transport company focusing on sea and air freight. This is NTEX seventh company acquisition in two years and it means that NTEX, through acquisitions and organic growth, will have a turnover of SEK 2.4-2.5 billion in 2020. This will make NTEX the largest private freight forwarder in Sweden.

The two Gothenburg-based transport and logistics companies becomes one when NTEX acquires Fraktkompaniet. Both companies are among the most expansive in the Swedish industry and the merger enables an even greater growth rate. Through the acquisition, NTEX increases its turnover by approximately 360 million SEK and welcomes 100 new employees. Fraktkompaniet will be run as an independent subsidiary under the direction of CEO Anette Yngvesson.

Reliability and quality - two cornerstones in the long-standing collaboration between Ecophon and NTEX. A collaboration that began in Sweden but today also includes transports outside the country's borders.