23.12.2020 | Uutiset
Family business 2.0
When you look at Silvasti today, it’s hard to imagine that the company had only one truck and one rented trailer when it was founded fifty years ago. Only ten years ago, Silvasti’s fleet consisted just of four trucks and ten trailers. The company has grown tremendously, but despite all the growth and internationalization, Silvasti […]...
16.12.2020 | Uutiset
It’s time for the Silvasti people to speak!
Silvasti would be nothing without its professional staff. To honor our employees, we sat down with them in our Finnish office’s staff canteen and asked them how they’re doing. Over the decades, Silvasti has been involved in several corporate acquisitions and has grown a lot, leading to many changes within the company. There are many […]...
09.12.2020 | Uutiset
Learning by doing
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 doing – sometimes the hard way. Silvasti has been accumulating special know-how for nearly fifty years. It hasn’t always been easy, but […]...
16.11.2020 | Uutiset
Silvasti driving wind power forward
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 down, the future of wind power appears bright. In the transition to renewable energy, wind power is driven forward through cooperation. Silvasti provides wind power transportation with over 15 […]...
17.10.2020 | Uutiset
Transport Company Ville Silvasti Ltd is awarded with the Finnish Entrepreneur of the year award for 2020
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 in the Federation of Finnish Enterprises’ (Suomen Yrittäjät) union meeting on 17 October. “We have made a conscious decision to focus on demanding transports, and […]...
05.10.2020 | Uutiset
Silvasti helps bring Amazon wind power to Sweden
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 medium-sized city. Amazon is committed to covering all its operations with renewable energy by 2025. In recent years, the company has […]...
02.09.2020 | Uutiset
The wheels keep spinning even through the state of emergency
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 whee...
15.12.2019 | Uutiset
Silvasti’s new teamwork model helps carry out major projects with agility and high quality
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 handles communication with both the client and Silvasti employees with agility. According Silvasti site manager Bo Holst, the new working […]...
10.12.2019 | Uutiset
Even winter will not catch special transport professionals off guard
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, there are still plenty of special transport projects to be carried out in the winter as well. Lauri Riipinen is responsible for operations activities at Silvasti. According […]...
05.07.2019 | Uutiset
Silvasti transports wind turbine components of the latest technology from Denmark to Finland
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 includes 12 large machine rooms (nacelles) and 12 rotor hubs. Captain Mr. Yuriy Chernitskiy has good experience working at the port of Esbjerg in Denmark. His vessel “Symphony […]...
13.06.2019 | Uutiset
Special transport driver Hans Jørgen Henriksen: This work requires great alertness and situational Awareness
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 special transport driver with Frank Nørager – the Danish company bought by Silvasti – since 2002. When Henriksen started at Nørager, […]...
31.05.2019 | Uutiset
Jukka Silvasti granted the honorary title of Transport Cousellor: “My principle has been to always say yes to the customer”
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 Republic of Finland granted Jukka Silvasti the esteemed and rare honorary title of transport counsellor for his long, illustrious and pioneering career in the field […]...
