Institutional delegation to Sweden

An institutional delegation led by Mr. Javier Zarraonandia, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Basque Government, travelled to Sweden during April 6-7 to strengthen trade and institutional links between the two regions.

The railway sector was one of the main issues that the Basque Administration included in its agenda which, accompanied by the Director of Mafex and a delegation of Basque railway undertakings, the Deputy Minister held meetings with leading Swedish railway entities, such as the public operator SJ and the infrastructure manager Trafikverket.

Thus, this visit has proved to be the prelude to a sales office organized by Mafex in Sweden and Denmark in the month of November this year.

Currently, the Swedish market is of great interest to members of Mafex, some of which are already working in the Nordic country in projects like the trams of the cities of Lund, Helsingborg and Stockholm, as well as the Metro of this last city. In addition, the Basque and Spanish rail industry has the world’s leading companies in the sector, with capacity more than demonstrated to undertake projects that are planned to be carried out in the coming years in Sweden, such as the High Speed connecting Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö or the E4 bypass in Stockholm, among others