Oy Pohjolan Liikenne Ab (Northern Transport in English) is the road services division of the state-owned VR Group

VR Group

VR or VR Group is a state-owned railway company in Finland. Formerly known as Suomen Valtion Rautatiet until 1922 and Valtionrautatiet / Statsjärnvägarna until 1995...

. It is a major bus and road haulage operator in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

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Freight

The company has three freight companies / business divisions:

• Transpoint
  Transpoint
  Transpoint Oy Ab is a Finnish freight logistics company. It is owned by VR Group and is part of VR's Pohjolan Liikenne road services division. Transpoint trucks can be seen throughout Finland; trailer units are often carried around Finland by train.-External links:*...
  
   Oy Ab - a Finnish nationwide carrier of general cargo.
• Transpoint Cargo Oy - handling partial and full-load carryings.
• Transpoint International Group in 9 European countries - international freight and forwarding services.

There are 190 trucks, 453 trailers and 988 swap-bodies in freight service. Some 800 trucks owned by subcontractors are also used.

Buses

Pohjolan Liikenne operates a fleet of 292 buses. These can be seen throughout Finland, some operate in conjunction with ExpressBus

ExpressBus

ExpressBus is a Finnish express coach network covering most of Finland. It is a joint marketing brand of 23 coach operators and it was launched in 1991. The fleet has around 300 coaches with a white base colour and a red-blue arrow. The Savonlinja Group with Pohjolan Liikenne are two of the largest...

services. The company was founded in 1940 and carried 11.7 million passengers in 2006.

External links

• Pohjolan Liikenne (in Finnish)
• Transpoint (in Finnish, Swedish and English)