The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry (

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: Nærings- og handelsdepartementet) was a

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responsible for business, trade and industry. On 1 January 2014 it was merged into

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. From 2013 it was led by

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), who continued as minister of trade, industry and fisheries from 2014 to 2018.

History

The

Ministry of Trade, Shipping, Industry, Craft and Fisheries was created on 1 October 1916. After this, the ministry underwent several name changes: to Ministry of Trade, Shipping and Industry on 1 July 1946, to Ministry of Industry, Craft and Shipping on 6 December 1947, to Ministry of Industry and Craft on 1 January 1955, to Ministry of Industry 1 January 1988, to Ministry of Industry and Energy on 1 January 1993 and to Ministry of Trade and Industry on 1 January 1997.

Organisation

The Ministry of Trade and Industry has six departments. The Press and Communications Division is part of the Secretary General's staff. The Ministry is headed by the Minister of Trade and Industry. The other political staff consists of three State Secretaries and one Political Advisor. The ministry is divided into the following sections: * Political staff * Information section * Department of Planning, Administration and Economic affairs * Department of Ownership * Department of Trade and Industrial Economics * Department of Research and Innovation Politics * Department of Regulations and Shipping * Department of Entrepreneurship and Internationalization

Political staff

* Minister

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) * State Secretary

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Subsidiaries

Subordinate government agencies: * Brønnøysund Register Centre * Guarantee Institute for Export Credits * Norwegian Accreditation *

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Norwegian Maritime Directorate The Norwegian Maritime Authority ( no, Sjøfartsdirektoratet) is a Norwegian government agency responsible for life, health, working conditions and the environment for Norwegian registered ships and ships at Norwegian ports. The authority, su ...

* Norwegian Metrology Service *

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Norwegian Patent Office The Norwegian Industrial Property Office ( no, PatentstyretNorwegian Ship Registers *

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Other agencies associated with the department: * BEDIN * Euro Info Centre *

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* Innovation Norway *

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* Norwegian Design Council *

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Wholly owned

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Argentum Fondsinvesteringer Argentum Fondsinvesteringer is a Norwegian government enterprise that participates as a minority owner in private equity funds. The goal of the company is to stimulate to create private equity investment groups in Norway, develop high research ...

BaneTele BaneTele was a Norwegian part state owned telecommunications company previously part of the Norwegian State Railways. The company provided stem fiberoptic cable network in Norway along the railway and power grid. The company had its headquarters ...

Bjørnøen Bjørnøen AS is a Norwegian government enterprise that owns all land and some heritage buildings on the uninhabited overseas territory of Bjørnøya (Bear Island). The company was founded as I/S Bjørnøen Kulkompani on June 3, 1918 to perfo ...

Electronic Chart Centre Electronic Chart Centre AS is Norway, Norwegian government ownership, government enterprise created in 1999 to create and publish nautical charts for use by ships and boats. The company was originally part of Statens Kartverk The Electronic Chart ...

Entra Eiendom Entra ASA is a Norwegian real estate company, headquartered in Oslo, Norway and is as of 22.06.2020 19.25% state owned. Operations The company was founded in 2000 when all commercial real estate owned by the state through Statsbygg was transfe ...

Flytoget The Airport Express Train ( no, Flytoget) is a Norwegian high-speed airport railway service connecting Oslo Airport to Oslo Central Station in nineteen minutes. Run by Flytoget AS (formerly NSB Gardermobanen AS), it operates on the high-speed ...

* Innovation Norway * Kings Bay * Mesta *

* Statkraft * Venturefondet * Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani Partially owned

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Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...

(54,0%) *

Kongsberg Gruppen Kongsberg Gruppen is an international technology group headquartered in Norway, that supplies high-technology systems to customers in the merchant marine, defence, aerospace, offshore oil and gas industries, and renewable and utilities indust ...

(50,0%) *

Nammo Nammo, short for Nordic Ammunition Company, is a Norwegian/Finnish aerospace and defence group specialized in production of ammunition, rocket engines and space applications. The company has subsidiaries in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switze ...

(50,0%) *

Norsk Hydro Norsk Hydro ASA (often referred to as just ''Hydro'') is a Norwegian aluminium and renewable energy company, headquartered in Oslo. It is one of the largest aluminium companies worldwide. It has operations in some 50 countries around the world a ...

(43,8%) *

Cermaq Cermaq is a company which farms salmon and trout in Norway, Canada and Chile. In 2017 the farming business had sales of around USD 1,1 billion, and a total sales volume of 157,800 tonnes. Cermaq is a fully owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporati ...

(43,5%) *

Yara International Yara International ASA is a Norwegian chemical company. It produces, distributes, and sells nitrogen-based mineral fertilizers and related industrial products. Its product line also includes phosphate and potash-based mineral fertilizers, as well ...

(36,2%) * DnB NOR (34,0%) *

Aker Holding Aker Holding is a holding company that owns 40.27% of Aker Solutions. It manages the ownership of four major owners in the company, through a common agreement to insure negative control over the company. Ownership: *Aker ASA (60.0%) *Norwegian ...

(30.0%, and thus indirectly 12% of

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) * Eksportfinans (15,0%) * SAS Group (14,3%)

List of ministers

Key

Ministers of Trade (1903–1945)

Ministers of Industry (1945–1987)

Ministers of Industry (1988–1993)

Ministers of Industry and Energy (1993–1996)

Ministers of Trade and Industry (1997–present)

References

Notes

External links

* {{authority control Trade and Industry

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