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MAY 2026

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Norwegian Ambassador visits Vigo after his participation in Navalia 2024

Nils Haugsveit held a meeting with the board of directors of Aclunaga

Last May, Nils Haugsveit, Ambassador of Norway in Spain, visited the ninth edition of Navalia and promised to return to Vigo. And so, he did recently to meet with the board of directors of Aclunaga, which Navalia is a part of. Also present at the meeting were: Marie Ramsdal, responsible for Commercial Promotion of the Norwegian Embassy in Spain; Lieneke Fjørtoft, director of the Commercial Office and Innovation Norway and Rodrigo Ballesteros, deputy commercial counsellor of Innovation Norway for Spain and Portugal.

During the meeting, both Manuel Vázquez, president of Aclunaga, and Óscar Gómez, manager, explained the importance of the Galician shipbuilding industry in the national and international framework, where Aclunaga is the highest representative as a Cluster.

For his side, the Ambassador showed special interest in the offshore wind industry, given that the Norwegian country has the same topography and similar wind conditions; at the same time, the same problems were discussed in terms of diversity of sensitivities. Haugsveitse was also interested in the construction of zero-emission offshore wind substations, a topic in which Javier Arnau, director of Navalia, offered to organize a visit to shipyards dedicated to this, as is the case in the Bay of Cadiz. In this regard, Arnau extended an invitation to him to participate in the next edition of the Navalia Meeting, which will take place in the city of Cadiz this September 2025. Clean and renewable energies, blue economy, aquaculture or ports of Galicia were some of the topics discussed at the meeting.