During a joint visit to the NATO exercise Immediate Response in Northern Norway, the ministers of transport in Norway, Sweden, and Finland agreed to strengthen cooperation on border-crossing transport corridors to better ensure military needs.
”The security policy situation after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO makes it necessary to cooperate closer with our Nordic neighbors. We share a border with both Sweden and Finland, and Norway will be important as a reception and transit area for military personnel and materiel. This sets high requirements for the roads, bridges, railways, ports, and airports in question,” says the Norwegian Minister of Transport, Jon-Ivar Nygård (Labor), in a press release.
- Strengthen cooperation to support military mobility between countries.
- Assess the need for a Nordic strategy for the long-term development of border-crossing connections based on each country’s strategic transport plans.
- For all actors, from strategic to operational level, to cooperate and exercise regularly. Läs artikel