Look who made it again to Norwegian media… Yes, you guessed it right – it’s us!

During our RAG/TAG meeting in Narvik, President Linda Thulin and Norwegian Management Board member Oskar Stenström were interviewed by Roger Danielsen, a journalist from local newspaper Fremover AS, together with the Managing Director of the Port of Narvik, Børge Edvardsen Klingan.

In the interview, our representatives highlighted that Narvik’s inclusion into the ScanMed Corridor is not merely a symbolic move but will have a real impact on regional businesses such as the seafood industry as the RFC can provide new markets and speed up the delivery of goods, including fresh fish, to customers across Europe.

By facilitating cross-border rail freight traffic and investing on international rail infrastructure – including the Ofotbanen – and innovation projects, we can ensure that even more remote areas such as Scandinavia’s High North are better connected to the rest of the continent.

Now that Narvik joined the Corridor, we intend to extend our cooperation and customer outreach to Northern Norway to get more goods on rail and intermodal transport. Through our Customer Relationship Manager Kosta Tsesmetsis, regional businesses now have a single contact point towards the market who can work to prioritise rail freight all the way down to Sicily.

For Børge Edvardsen Klingan, this is all great news, as the RFC can raise Narvik’s strategic relevance at key stakeholder meetings, help to persuade authorities in Sweden and in the EU to make the necessary investments in rail infrastructure to increase capacity, both on trade and military mobility grounds.

You can find the article (in Norwegian, subscribers only) here.