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FEB 17, 2003 (newstodate): SONY Ericsson has officially terminated production of mobile cell phones in Sweden, having now relocated all cell phone production to Flextronics' sites in a range of countries closer to core markets.
The last cell phone was delivered by Flextronics' plant at Linkoping one week ago, an Ericsson spokesman confirms.
Only two years ago, Ericsson's production of cell phones in Sweden involved a workforce of 18,000 employees, also generating huge quantities of air cargo shipments by scheduled carriers and charter companies out of Sweden.
With the demise of this traffic, Sweden's volume of air cargo has continued to fall, in 2002 by two percent on IATA-carriers alone, not counting decline in ad-hoc freighters of non-IATA airlines
The last cell phone was delivered by Flextronics' plant at Linkoping one week ago, an Ericsson spokesman confirms.
Only two years ago, Ericsson's production of cell phones in Sweden involved a workforce of 18,000 employees, also generating huge quantities of air cargo shipments by scheduled carriers and charter companies out of Sweden.
With the demise of this traffic, Sweden's volume of air cargo has continued to fall, in 2002 by two percent on IATA-carriers alone, not counting decline in ad-hoc freighters of non-IATA airlines