Global freight management provider Geodis Wilson moved more than 28,000 tons of Swedish export airfreight in 2010 – around 25 per cent of the country’s total airfreight export market, according to the newest IATA industry report. Geodis Wilson Sweden saw overall freight traffic expand by over 40 per cent compared with 2009.
Airfreight business in Sweden and worldwide picked up noticeably from the summer last year. A large contributor to Geodis Wilson’s success is represented by the enhanced frequent services to its top destinations Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Shanghai, to which Geodis Wilson has consolidations up to five times a week. “It is a just-in-time performance that our clients are looking for, which means we are giving the market the frequency that it needs,” added Peter Nordström, Geodis Wilson’s Nordic Procurement & Traffic Systems Director.
Nordström predicts further market growth of five to six per cent in 2011. “However, capacity will not grow in equal measure, so there will inevitably be some space problems on the market – and this is where vendor loyalty will give us further advantage,” he said. Geodis Wilson Sweden has established access to major IATA carriers, thus ensuring access to necessary capacity.
Geodis Wilson is also among Sweden’s top three airfreight import agents, serving several hundred air freight customers, including the great majority of all market leading companies in Sweden with import/export needs. In 2010, Geodis Wilson was voted Air Cargo Freight Forwarder of The Year by their customers at the annual awards of industry title Air Cargo Week.
“We have been striving to move up to first position for a number of years”, says Peter Vallenthin, Managing Director Geodis Wilson Sweden and the Nordics. “It has always been our strategy to be the best in Sweden, with a good product pitched at the right market condition and an outstanding customer service mentality”, Vallenthin continues. Geodis Wilson Sweden reaches annual sales of SEK 2.03bn (euro 230m) and runs 11 offices throughout the country. Being part of the global multimodal network of SNCF Geodis, Geodis Wilson can offer integrated one-stop logistics solutions, covering more than 120 countries worldwide, and providing specific industry solutions, for example to the pharma sector, retailers, automotive and hi-tech companies.
About Geodis Wilson and the Geodis Group
Geodis Wilson is a leading global freight management company. With 6,400 employees in more than 50 countries, Geodis Wilson delivers tailor-made, integrated solutions to customers, enabling them to operate as best in class.
Geodis Wilson is the freight forwarding arm of SNCF Geodis, a division of the French railway group SNCF. With its 46.000 employees in 120 countries ‘SNCF GEODIS’ ranks among the top 5 companies in its field in the world.