Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
SWEDEN, 6 NOV 2023: Swedish well-known packaging company Tetra Pak is likely still doing business in Russia, despite the company’s plea to withdrawn. According to a report by Swedish quality newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Tetra Pak attracted a “middle man” company […]
DENMARK, 3 NOV 2023: Danish-based, giant shipping company Maersk has sailed into stormy weather. The company’s income dropped by 94 percent in a year time. That is the conclusion after Maersk published the results for 2023Q3: USD 489 million in […]
ESTONIA, 1 NOV 2023: Estonian state-owned airline Nordica is bleeding cash. Despite a 30 percent revenue increase this year, the company reported a net loss of EUR 11.9 million in the first three quarters of 2023. Challenges include long maintenance […]
NORWAY, 1 NOV 2023: Norwegian “quality” salmon from “clean” fjords is not doing so well. Footage has surfaced of many dead fish with the Lerøy Seafood Group, one of the giants in lax farming. A company spokesperson confirmed to Norwegian […]
FINLAND, 1 NOV 2023: Finnish airline Finnair is celebrating a 100 years of existence on 1 November 2023. Originally named Aero, the company initially flew mail between Helsinki and Tallinn in Estonia. Later it grew to a strong European airline […]
SWEDEN, 28 OCT 2023: Swedish computer games maker Paradox, headquartered in Stockholm, has launched its newest city simulator, Cities Skylines 2, seven years after the first edition of the game was a big hit. More than 20 million users have […]
SWEDEN, 27 OCT 2023: Swedish Tesla personnel is on strike, as the car manufacturer of Elon Musk is refusing to sign common union agreements in Sweden. The powerful steal manufacturers union IF Metall has taken out 130 staff that works […]
LATVIA, 27 OCT 2023: Latvia has become the biggest EU importer Russian grains, despite EU sanctions, Latvian national broadcasting company Ilze Nagla reports. The problems for Ukraine getting its agricultural produce exported, is a gain for Russia. E.g. Russian wheat […]
Many Polish motorists were happy when the state-owned fuel company Orlen dropped the prices at the pump. The move was clearly an attempt by the ruling conservative PiS party to win votes. But in the villages – where PiS normally […]
DENMARK, 28 SEP 2023: One Portuguese man was killed and two other Portuguese workers severely wounded in an explosion at the Welcon steel factory in Give, Denmark, which produces for wind turbines. NEWS IN BRIEF by Nordicreporter.com
NORWAY, 6 SEP 2023: Facebook and Instagram‘s mother company Meta is sentenced to pay day fines to the Norwegian people for breach of their privacy. A court in Oslo judged that the American social media giant cannot postpone paying the […]
Norway’s Oil and Energy Department is about to take a stronger stand on the power guzzling data centres, after the latest deal to put a new one for the Chinese social media platform TikTok in Hamar got a lot of […]
It is said to be the world’s first big, commercial carbon capture storage deal, and Norway is where it happens. Off the coast of Bergen, in the seabed of the North Sea, CO2 will be stored to help combat the […]
In six years Sweden will have its own electric passenger aircraft, made by up to 500 workers in Gothenburg. Fairytale? Legacy Swedish aircraft maker SAAB and Air Canada have already signed up as minority shareholders, and Air Canada is buying […]
The Swedish government worked intensely to have the US government lift sanctions against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. It happened in 2018 and 2019, to save jobs at the Deripaska-owned steel factory of Sundsvall in Northern Sweden. But by then […]
Finland’s national railways VR has been playing yo-yo with its cargo transport to Russia. It took an intervention from the country’s Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering to stop it. VR suspended all goods transport to Russia 28 March, […]
Renowned Swedish companies such as Sandvik, SKF, Seco Tools, Atlas Copco and the less known Water Jet Sweden have in the course of many years delivered machines or parts to the Russian nuclear weapons program, through their Russian daughter companies […]
At the end of May 2020 I worked with Dutch Nieuwsuur TV reporter Saskia Dekkers, camera man Pieter Nijdeken and editor Luuk Mulder on two reports on Sweden in Corona times. While Sweden kept much of its society running, to […]
Once COVID19 restrictions are lifted many companies and organisations will be looking for creative ways to cut costs and stay alive. Economizing on staff is one way, but can a smaller crew do the same job in less working hours. […]
The 14th largest city of Sweden can be entirely without drinking water if a new electricity generator containing 220,000 litres of oil breaks open. The municipality’s environmental office has said no to constructing it, but Gävle’s politicians are overruling this. […]
Rows and rows of fruit trees dot the otherwise flat landscape just south of Warsaw. Once frequently travelled by Communist government workers to their state holiday resorts, road 801 on the eastern bank of the meandering Vistula river is much […]