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NORTHERN EUROPE PROFILE: NSB AS
Gjermundsen. “Having a wide-ranging
team with solid expertise from all specialist
environments will give us good trains.”
Mr. Eike adds, “The process is now
underway and we will be signing the
contract during 2008. But we still need
everyone to stick at it and keep up their
strong commitment.”
‘‘70 staff from a range
of departments are
involved in ensuring that
NSB makes the best
Tormod Gjermundsen is NSB’s Director of
Stein Nilsen is a Group Director and heads up
purchase for its next- Technical Services and oversees NSB’s
NSB’s Passenger Trains Division
generation trains’’
rolling stock
then be negotiating with the suppliers of
these to ensure even better trains. The The customers' ambassador
Facts
supplier who comes out on top after the In the final analysis, what really counts is
Norges Statsbaner (NSB) is a Norwegian
negotiations will have won the tender. the customers and their perception of the
transport group with an annual turnover of
“The fact that we have opted to set up new trains. approximately 10 billion Norwegian Kroner
such a large evaluation team says “There is no point in us finding a train
(€1.25 billion). The company operates
everything about the significance and with the best bogies or the best driver
passenger transport services by train and
bus, as well as freight services by train, real
complexity of the task,” explains Mr. compartment, if the customers are not
estate development and rolling stock
maintenance. NSB's activities are primarily
focused on Norway, but the Group also
owns the Swedish train operating company,
Svenska Tågkompaniet AB, and a number
of bus companies in Sweden and Denmark.
An old EMU Photo Credit: Holger Schlauptiz
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