What Powder-Trans does

Powder-Trans is a Finland-based, privately held logistics company specializing in bulk goods transportation and intermodal logistics solutions. Headquartered in Lieto and operating since 1972, the firm falls within the 251–500 employee band, indicating a mid-sized carrier with multi-decade operating history in the Nordic market. Its functional focus is the physical movement and handling of dry bulk commodities, leveraging intermodal capabilities that typically combine road, rail, and containerized or silo-based handling assets suited to Finnish and Scandinavian trade flows.

The company's core offering is operational rather than technology-led: bulk freight movement, intermodal transfer, and associated terminal handling services for industrial shippers. No proprietary technology stack, software platform, API surface, or productized service lines are documented in the available data, and the company's own website (powder-trans.fi) returned only a verification/loading page during source capture, providing no additional technical detail. The technology-related fields in the aggregated dataset are empty.

The business model is consistent with a traditional asset-heavy logistics carrier: revenue is generated through transportation contracts and intermodal service fees charged to industrial bulk-goods customers (e.g., chemicals, minerals, agri-bulk, powders). No pricing model, publicly disclosed rates, customer logos, segment mix, marketing channels, or partnership data are available in the input. The firm is privately held with no disclosed ownership, parent, subsidiaries, funding rounds, M&A history, or leadership roster. Overall, the evidence supports describing Powder-Trans as a long-established regional bulk-transport operator, but the absence of first-party disclosures means business-model specifics (pricing, customer mix, channel strategy) cannot be substantiated from the input data.

Name

Powder-Trans

Website

https://powder-trans.fi

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Powder-Trans is a privately held Finnish bulk goods transportation and intermodal logistics company, founded in 1972 in Lieto, serving industrial bulk-shipper clients across the Nordic region with road, rail, and terminal handling services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Logistics Services

NAICS

Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Long-Distance (48423)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Minerals & Chemicals (Non-Haz Bulk Powders) Transport (TLADAKAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dry Bulk (Hopper/Pneumatic) TL Carriers (TLADADAE), Intermodal Container Transload (Port/Drayage Support) (TLALAFAI)

Keywords

• Bulk goods transportation
• Intermodal logistics
• Freight forwarding
• Powder logistics
• Bulk cargo services

Headquarters

HQ city

Lieto

HQ country

Finland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Core offering

Powder-Trans specializes in bulk goods transportation, with a focus on intermodal logistics solutions. The company moves powder and other bulk cargo between transport modes to serve industrial shippers in Finland and surrounding markets. Operations are based out of Lieto, Finland.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bulk Goods Transportation

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• DB Schenker: European freight forwarding and contract-logistics division within Deutsche Bahn. Schenker's road, rail, intermodal, and contract logistics overlap directly with Powder-Trans's bulk-powder and intermodal offering across continental Europe.
• DSV A/S: Denmark-headquartered global freight forwarder and one of Europe's largest transport and logistics providers. DSV competes with Powder-Trans in Nordic freight forwarding and intermodal logistics, but at substantially greater scale and across a far broader service portfolio.
• Kuehne+Nagel: Swiss-headquartered global logistics group with strong European road, intermodal, and contract logistics operations. Comparable to Powder-Trans through its road and intermodal freight services, though operating at vastly greater scale and reach.
• DHL Freight: Road freight and logistics division of Deutsche Post DHL, providing European road transport, intermodal, and contract logistics services. Overlaps with Powder-Trans in bulk and road freight services across Europe, especially in Nordic and Baltic lanes.

Direct peers

• Hupac: Swiss intermodal operator running combined road-rail services across Europe. Comparable to Powder-Trans's intermodal logistics capability, although Hupac focuses specifically on container intermodal across European corridors at meaningfully higher volume.
• VR Transpoint: Finnish rail and intermodal freight operator within VR Group, running domestic and Nordic rail logistics and intermodal terminals. Directly comparable to Powder-Trans's intermodal logistics capability in the Finnish market, with overlap on bulk and contract freight.
• Kombiverkehr: German intermodal operator organizing combined road-rail freight services across Europe. Comparable to Powder-Trans's intermodal angle, focusing on shifting European road freight to rail for industrial and bulk logistics customers.
• Nurminen Logistics: Finnish logistics company specializing in heavy-haul and rail-based freight forwarding with Nordic and Baltic reach. Comparable to Powder-Trans as a Finland-based operator offering specialized freight and intermodal solutions to industrial customers.
• NTEX: Sweden-based transport and logistics provider focused on Northern Europe with intermodal and specialized freight capability. Comparable to Powder-Trans as a Nordic mid-market carrier with similar geographic scope and specialized-industrial customer base.
• Samskip: Europe-headquartered multimodal logistics provider running terminals, rail, road, and short-sea connections with strong Northern European footprint. Overlaps with Powder-Trans in Northern European intermodal and short-haul bulk logistics for industrial customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/powdertrans
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/powdertrans

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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