📋 Tender Overview
Press release | Date: 31.03.2025 | At general meetings in Vygruppen AS (VY) and Flytoget AS on March 31, the merger of the companies was adopted. The Flytoget is now a subsidiary in the VY Group. Ingvald Loyning is nominated as new chairman of VY. Work on the merger started last fall, when the boards of the two companies received a mandate from the Ministry of Transport, which owns both VY and Flytoget, to prepare the merger of the two single -agent train companies. - Making Vy and Flytoget will help to develop a better train service for as many travelers as possible in Eastern Norway. Now we will build on the best of both Vy and Flytoget. We now get a powerful state company that I have high hopes for, says Transport Minister Jon-Ivar Nygard. Ingvald Loyning takes over the board leader after Berit Svendsen At todays general meeting, Ingvald Loyning was appointed as new chairman of VY. - Berit Svendsen has been chairman of VY for five years, and has particularly contributed to strengthening the work on customer orientation. When Ingvald Loyning now takes over the chairman of the board in VY, it is expected with an expectation that the Group will take further steps in developing good and innovative services for the travelers on the railway. Loyning also has an industrial and business experience, which is important in the efforts to strengthen profitability in the markets VY operates in, says the Minister of Transport. Loyning was until 2024 CEO of DSD AS and has previously been CEO of the Kverneland Group and Nutreco/Marine Harvest. Loyning has been chairman of the Flytoget since 2021, and is currently chairman of the board of Mesta AS. Marianne Odegaard Ribe is a new board member of Vy. Ribe is the CEO of Ringnes AS and has so far been deputy chairman of the board of the Flytoget. In VYs board, Geir Inge Stokke, Dina Aune and Espen Almlid continue as board members. Gro Bakstad, nominated as new chairman of the Flytoget as a result of Flytoget is now a subsidiary of the VY Group, is CEO of VY, Gro Bakstad, nominated as chairman of the board of the Flytoget. Among todays board members of the Flytoget, Ingvald Loyning and Stein Fund have been re -elected. In addition, Kristian Kolind, Executive Vice President for Business Development and Technology in Vy, enters the Flytogets board. With this consideration, the board composition safeguards that the board of the Flytoget has externally elected board members even after the merger has been implemented no changes for the travelers now the merger in itself has no consequences for travelers now. Vy and Flytoget continue as independent brands, with the same ticket solutions as today. - In the metropolitan area there is no room for more trains on the tracks. In any case, a new railway tunnel in Oslo will not be completed until many years. In order to solve the problem, we need to make better use of the capacity on the trains in fact, says the Minister of Transport a better route offer for more travelers in Eastern Norway by 2028 By March 2023, it was decided that the capacity used by the flight train to and from Oslo Airport by 2028 to strengthen the Eastern land. Then the Flytogets license to run its own passenger train offers to and from Norways largest airport. By 2028, Flytogets departures are replaced by regional trains that are open to all passengers. With this, the train service between Drammen and Oslo is strengthened with three departures per hour, while the offer from Lillestrom increases by six departures per hour. There will be up to ten departures per hour between Oslo S and Oslo Airport, and the flight trains product qualities will be continued as much as possible. The ownership of the flight trains is transferred to Norske Tog AS In connection with the flight train entering the Vygruppen, the 23 flight trains are transferred to Norske Tog AS, which is the State Train Materials Company. Norwegian trains will then, with a few exceptions, own all the train sets used for passenger transport by train in Norway. The employees of the Flytoget who have had the main responsibility for following up the Flytogene will join Norwegian trains through business transfer. For more information - see: letter of 18 September 2024 from the Ministry of Transport and Communications: as well as (pdf). Press release of June 25, 2024 from the Ministry of Transport and Communications: Directing Passenger Traffic Eastern Norway: Press release of March 3, 2023 from the Railway Directorate: Press Report of 7 April 2022 from the Ministry of Transport and Communications:
