A family business leading the digitalisation of logistics

Our experience, combined with our dynamic logistics concept, puts us in an excellent position to succeed, helping us become one of the leading transport companies in the Nordics and a growth-oriented operator in the Central and Eastern European markets. Ahola Group’s main market areas are Finland, Sweden and the Baltic countries.

 

The Group consists of Ahola Transport, a provider of road transportation, Ahola Special, operating in heavy and oversized transports, and Ahola Digital, a supplier of digital logistics solutions. Ahola’s fleet includes approximately 560 modern vehicles that are well suited to the conditions of our market area. Our equipment perfectly matches the needs of various industries, thereby ensuring fast deliveries for all types of goods. A modern fleet, and the adoption and piloting of alternative fuels play a role in achieving overall environmental efficiency.

 

Ahola Transport

 

Ahola Transport is a road transport professional that provides both trade and industry with transports that are tailored and comprehensively optimised based on customer needs. Ahola Transport has created a dynamic model where the pickup, main freight and distribution of goods are integrated into a single process. Instead of using terminals, the model is based on a truck-to-truck principle, which minimises cargo handling and enables direct deliveries from the sender to the recipient. Customers and drivers always have a dedicated contact person and a planning team which coordinates the transport orders and speaks the same language as the customer and the driver.

 

Ahola Special

 

Ahola Special transports heavy and oversized cargo using a combination of different transport modes. With a modern and multi-purpose in-house fleet, its service offering includes planning based on the customer’s needs, project management and necessary additional services, such as cargo handling in ports, and jacking and skidding.

 

Ahola Special also provides the Ahola Engineering service, which focuses on the comprehensive planning of routes, worksites and other sites using 3D laser scanning and CAD-assisted planning. This makes it possible for the special transport team to be involved already in the pre-planning phase of projects and worksites, which ultimately means, for example, less need for soil preparation or fewer trees to be felled.

 

In 2024, we established a company in Sweden, Ahola Special AB, and registered new vehicles in the country. The fleet registered in Sweden will help us meet the growing demand for special transports within the country.

 

Ahola Digital

 

Ahola Digital’s solutions and services take transport and logistics companies towards the future. Ahola Digital’s offering includes many kinds of tailored software solutions for, among other things, boosting and optimising transports. The solutions help optimise vehicle occupancy and usage rates, but the possibilities are almost infinite. We make the customer’s transport operations more eco-friendly together with the customer. With Ahola Digital’s solutions, the customer always stays one step ahead, today and tomorrow.

 

The Group’s vision is to reach a leading position in the Northern European logistics markets by modernising traditional logistics and developing new digital services. This vision will be achieved through the teamwork of our responsible employees and sustainable ways of working.

 

 

Our approach – the Ahola Way

 

Our vision is to be a pioneer in Europe by modernizing traditional logistics and developing new digital services. Our mission is logistics flows under our responsibility, and our values are total responsibility, openness and respect for the individual. The approach is built on responsible people who know their job, want to succeed and dare to succeed, and on responsible methods: active co-operation, real-time guidance and measurable sustainability – following a continuous plan, do, check and act cycle.

 

Employees, contract carriers and the Board of Directors

 

Ahola Group employed 259 people at the end of the review period. In addition to its own personnel, Ahola relies on long-term partnerships and employs over 450 contract drivers in road transports. The Group CEO is Ida Saavalainen. The Group paid a total of EUR 16.2 million in salaries and bonuses during the review period.

 

On 28 May 2025, Ahola Group’s General Meeting elected the following ordinary members to the Board of Directors: Hans Ahola (Chair), Nils Ahola and, as members independent of the organisation, Olli-Matti Airiola and Jukka Karhula. The company’s ordinary auditor is the auditing firm Ernst & Young Ab, and the Chief Auditor is Anders Mattsson, Authorized Public Accountant.