Government ministry in Norway
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Transport, also referred as Ministry of Transport and Communications[1] (Norwegian Bokmål: Samferdselsdepartementet; Nynorsk: Samferdsledepartementet, SD) is a Norwegian ministry established in 1946, and is responsible for transportation in Norway. The ministry was responsible for communication infrastructure until may 2019, when the responsibility for the Norwegian Communications Authority was transferred to Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. Since October 2021, the ministry has been headed by Jon-Ivar Nygård of the Labour Party.[2] The department must report to the parliament (Stortinget).
Organization
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Political staff
As of June 2023, the political staff of the ministry is as follows[3]
Department
The ministry has 135 employees and is divided into the following sections:
- Political staff
- Communication Unit
- Department of Management, Administration and Public Safety and Security
- Department of Civil Aviation, Postal services and Procurement of Non-Commercial Transport
- Department of Planning and Rail transport
- Department of Coastal Affairs and Environment
- Department of Public Roads, Urban Mobility and Traffic Safety
Subsidiaries
Under the ministry there are seven administrative agencies and four state-owned limited companies:
The department owned 1/3 of Stor-Oslo Lokaltrafikk that organised the public transport in Akershus.
Note: The railway company Airport Express Train,[4] the Norwegian Maritime Directorate and the Norwegian Ship Registers are subsidiaries of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry while Kystverket is a subsidiary of the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs.
