By delivering food and furniture to Citronfjorden in the northernmost part of Greenland  Arctic Group has added yet another chapter to its history about supply of goods to the world’s most remote areas geographically.

By Citronfjorden 25 miners are living 12 weeks at a time while examining the underground for rare minerals in this part of Greenland for the Australian company Ironbark.

Once a Year

In Arctic regions you often encounter conditions which call for great demands as regards the supplier’s logistic know-how as well as knowledge about the products. However, by Citronfjorden the delivery is quite extraordinary as this region is one of the most desolated places in Greenland.

On the frozen ocean ice a Hercules flight lands with supplies for a whole year – and not until a year later it returns with new supplies. The scientific expedition has just received  this year’s supply of food, furniture, consumer goods, tools, machines, etc. needed by the team of investigators in 2010.

The delivery has been on a long journey before ending in the northernmost part of Greenland.  The goods were freighted from Grønlandshavnen in Aalborg by lorry to Tromsø in the north of Norway. From Tromsø the deliveries were shipped to Longyearbyen in Svalbard, and then loaded on to the Hercules flight, which later landed on the ice by Citronfjorden. Then fulltrack vehicles took over and transported the delivery the final short distance to the camp.

Accuracy and Coordination

Being the supplier of the food delivery the requirements to Arctic Group were immense. Accuracy of the contents of the delivery and coordination of the dispatch were of paramount importance for the success of the delivery. 
Arctic Group’s 30 year long experience with deliveries of goods to remote regions worldwide was a crucial factor to the customer.  The safety of the delivery and the extensive knowledge of the products were vital to Ironbark, since the 25 miners in Citronfjorden in the highest degree depend on the contents of the delivery in the year ahead.

”In connection with such deliveries it is of utmost importance that Arctic Group is geared to handle complicated logistic processes” says Mr Peter Freiesleben, Managing Director of Arctic Group, and further points out that in addition to the knowledge of the products it is these competences which make the company a major partner in trade.

Looking for Further Possibilites

The contact between Ironbark and Arctic Group was established last year at the annual mining exhibition, PDAC, in Toronto, where competences, experiences, and requirements were exchanged.
Yet again this year Arctic Group crosses the ocean to Toronto in order to find further trading partners, who need the range of goods including everything from rubber boots and contractor’s machines to food and furniture.