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Learning by doing
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These days, more and more people start their careers as entrepreneurs through school. There is still no special school for special transports, however, which means that you have to learn the job by...
Silvasti driving wind power forward
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International and national climate objectives demand that the share of renewable energy in the final electricity consumption be increased. As climate-harming electricity production methods are wound...
Transport Company Ville Silvasti Ltd is awarded with the Finnish Entrepreneur of the year award for 2020
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The top special transport expert, Transport Company Ville Silvasti Ltd, was awarded with the National Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2020. The company, with headoffice in Jyväskylä, was awarded...
Silvasti helps bring Amazon wind power to Sweden
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The Internet giant Amazon is the world’s largest provider of cloud services – and a massive consumer of energy. A single Amazon data center can use up the same amount of electricity as a...
The wheels keep spinning even through the state of emergency
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2020 has proven to be a turbulent transition to a new decade. However, the pervading uncertainty of the spring has yet to catch up with Silvasti’s yellow trucks. How have we managed to keep the...
Silvasti’s new teamwork model helps carry out major projects with agility and high quality
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Silvasti has adopted a new teamwork model in which each project is carried out by a site manager and two coordinators working together. The project team works out of a site office at the site and...
Even winter will not catch special transport professionals off guard
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At Silvasti, preparations for winter are always thorough and carried out on time. While the special transport industry is characteristically cyclical, with most jobs conducted during the melt season,...
Silvasti transports wind turbine components of the latest technology from Denmark to Finland
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Silvasti has received a significant order from its long-term client Vestas. Silvasti ships the latest technology V150 wind turbine components from Esbjerg in Denmark to Vaasa, Finland. Delivery...
Special transport driver Hans Jørgen Henriksen: This work requires great alertness and situational Awareness
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Hans Jørgen Henriksen has seen a lot in his work. He is the most experienced driver of Transport Company Ville Silvasti’s Danish division. Henriksen has worked as a driver since 1984 and as a...
Jukka Silvasti granted the honorary title of Transport Cousellor: “My principle has been to always say yes to the customer”
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Transport company Ville Silvasti’s roots stretch back to the early 1970s, when Ville’s father Jukka Silvasti started a company specialising a special transports. In May 2019, the President of the...
Route planning is all about solving problems before they occur
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Large special transports are planned from start to finish before the deployment of a single transport vehicle. The early stages of the planning process include the preparation of a precise route plan...
Safety highlighted as the main theme of new driver orientation
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At the start of May, Silvasti recruited 20 new drivers to carry out special transports involving the delivery of wind turbine components to construction sites in Sweden and Norway. Their careers at...