The transport strike started on Saturday 15 May when the mediation between the Norwegian Transport Workers’ Union (NTF) and the Norwegian Logistics and Freight Association (LTL) broke down. Since then, some of the transport industry has been on strike.

The announced escalation will affect the entire Norwegian transport industry, including most of Bring Logistics and Bring Frigoscandias terminals in Norway. Due to the escalation, there will be little or no opportunity to forward goods to one of the affected terminals for further handling.  Direct transport will run more or less as normal.

More temporary lay-offs 

Additional employees will have to be temporarily laid off on Tuesday and for the duration of the dispute.

“At Bring, we are particularly concerned about the customers and employees that are affected by this industrial dispute and hope it will be settled soon,” says Bring Logistics’ SVP Erik Johannessen.  

The affected terminals 

The following Bring terminals will be affected as from Tuesday 25 May (where there are no comments in brackets in the list below the terminals are either closed or will be closed as from Tuesday 25 May):

• Bring Frigoscandia AS, Skårer (frozen and chilled terminal closed, fish terminal open but with reduced capacity)
• Bring Frigoscandia AS, Trondheim (operations with reduced capacity)
• Bring Frigoscandia AS avd. Bergen (operation with reduced capacity)
• Bring Frigoscandia Warehouse AS, Larvik (operation with reduced capacity)
• Bring Frigoscandia Warehouse AS, Rudshøgda (operation with reduced capacity)
• Bring Frigoscandia Warehouse, Rud (operation with reduced capacity)
• Bring Logistics AS, Karihaugen
• Bring Logistics AS, Kristiansand
• Bring Logistics AS, Bodø
• Bring Logistics AS, Bergen
• Bring Logistics AS, Haugesund
• Bring Logistics AS, Sandefjord
• Bring Logistics AS, Tananger
• Bring Logistics AS, Oslo
• Bring Logistics AS, Trondheim
• Bring Logistics AS, Ålesund
• Bring Logistics AS, Verdal
• Bring Logistics AS, Harstad
• Bring Logistics AS, Tromsø

 

 

Services not affected by the strike

 

The strike does not directly affect terminals and the transport of goods outside Norway, other than groupage- and part load shipments to and from Norway.

The strike will also affect Air & Sea shipments to and from Norway. Please contact your Bring office for further detailes.

 

 

Bring Logistics’ terminals in Drammen, Hønefoss, Kongsvinger, Østfold, Molde, Førde and Sogndal are not affected.

 

 

Other parts of Bring’s operations, such as Express, Parcels and Warehousing Services, will continue to function as normal.

The transport between oil bases (Oil Express) will take place more or less as usual.

 

 

Company Parcels (Bedriftspakken) and Service Parcels (Servicepakken) will be forwarded as normal.

 

 

The extent of the strike

 

The strike is now being widened to affect all the forwarding companies that are bound by the Forwarding Agents’ Tariff throughout Norway.

 

 

This escalation affects a total of 491 employees at 68 companies that are bound by the Forwarding Agents’ Tariff and 291 employees at 16 Schenker terminals.  A total of 1,650 terminal employees will go on strike.

A further effect is that the strike will to a greater extent create problems for maritime transport, as the Norwegian Transport Workers’ Union (NTF) has announced that a number of terminal employees who work in harbour areas will go on strike.  In addition, the strike will lead to much greater problems for domestic transport and distribution using motor vehicles.

 

 

Keep informed

 

Your contact person, your local Bring office or Bring Logistic customer service centre - phone +47 04055 – will inform you of the effects on the services that your company buys from Bring. Bring Frigoscandia customer service can be reached on +47 04051.

 

 

Registered customers can also obtain operational updates by logging into”MinE Nasjonalt”

 

 

Please visit Norway Post’s and Bring’s websites (www.postennorge.no, www.bring.no/bring+Logistics and http://www.bring.no/Bring+Frigoscandia) for updates on the operational consequences of the strike.

 

 

In addition, please refer to the Norwegian media for regular updates on the strike.