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1.12.2025 | The agreement on cross-border taxi services between Finland and Norway will enter into force on 14 December 2025. It will permit taxi transport between the two countries.

The European Commission has selected communications projects to receive funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). In the fourth round of calls for proposals under the CEF Digital programme, five projects coordinated by Finnish operators received a total of around EUR 4.67 million in funding. In addition, funding was awarded to a Swedish submarine cable project that is partly placed in Finland.

Finland is actively involved in international efforts to keep shipping and the marine environment safe in the Baltic Sea.

13.11.2025 | The Government submitted a bill on cross-border taxi services between Finland and Norway for approval on 13 November 2025.

The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom has completed the Port State Control (PSC) inspection of the Eagle S and detained the ship.

Finnish operators apply for a total of EUR 13.76 million in funding from the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for seven communications projects. In addition, four Swedish projects are partly placed in Finland. The Ministerial Finance Committee decided in favour of the applications on 30 January 2025.

The Government submitted a proposal to amend the Driving Licence Act to Parliament on 19 February 2026. The aim of the legislative proposal is to improve traffic safety for young people in particular.

2.10.2025 | The Government submitted to Parliament on 2 October 2025 a legislative proposal on cross-border taxi services between Finland and Norway. In Finland, the proposal implements the agreement on international taxi transport services between the two countries.

26.11.2018 | Ministeri Berner Hongkongiin liikenne- ja viestintäministeriö Julkaisuajankohta 26.11.2018 9.18 | Julkaistu suomeksi 29.3.2023 klo 10.00 Tyyppi: Tiedote Liikenne- ja viestintäministeri Anne Berner edustaa Suomea Pohjoismaisen innovaatiotalon avaja...

26.11.2018 | Liikenne- ja viestintäministeri Anne Berner edustaa Suomea Pohjoismaisen innovaatiotalon avajaisissa Hongkongissa 28. marraskuuta 2018. Avajaisiin osallistuvat Ruotsin EU-asioista ja ulkomaankaupasta vastaava ministeri Ann Linde, Hongkongin hallintojohtaja Carrie Lam sekä Pohjoismaiden ministerineuvoston pääsihteeri Dagfinn Høybråten.

30.4.2025 | The Ministry of Transport and Communications requests comments on the draft government proposal for national implementation of the agreement between Finland and Norway on international taxi transport services. Opinions may be submitted until 21 May 2025.

9.4.2025 | The Ministry of Transport and Communications has set up a legislative project to bring into force nationally the agreement on taxi transport services between the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Norway.

13.3.2025 | On 13 March 2025, Finland’s Minister of Transport and Communications Lulu Ranne and Norway’s Minister of Transport Jon-Ivar Nygård signed an agreement in Oslo, Norway, on taxi transport services between the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Norway. The agreement permits taxi transport services between Finland and Norway.

5.2.2026 | European route 16, E16, will be extended to Finland. The Finnish Government gave a decree on the matter on 5 February 2026. The decree will enter into force on 5 March 2026.

26.1.2026 | On 26 January 2026, Finland and 13 other European countries published a letter to the International Maritime Community on the safety and security risks caused by Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) interference. The signatories of the letter include the coastal states of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea: Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom as well as Iceland.

30.4.2024 | On 30 April 2024, Minister of Transport and Communications Lulu Ranne, Norwegian Minister of Transport Jon-Ivar Nygård and Swedish Minister of Infrastructure Andreas Carlson signed a joint statement on developing the transport system.

3.10.2025 | On 3 October 2025, the President of the Republic approved an amendment to the international agreement on European roads (AGR) by which European route 16, E16, can be extended to the Finnish side. The Ministry of Transport and Communications has launched a legislative project for the national implementation of extending E16 to Finland.

13.5.2025 | Transport ministers of Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark will meet on 13–14 May 2025 in Helsinki. They will issue a joint statement on military mobility and security of supply.

13.3.2024 | Minister of Transport and Communications Lulu Ranne visited the Nordic Response 24 defence exercise in Lapland on 10–11 March 2024. Minister Ranne learnt about the activities of the Defence Forces, Nordic cooperation between the authorities and NATO-Nordic defence cooperation from the infrastructure perspective.

29.4.2024 | Minister of Transport and Communications Lulu Ranne will visit Narvik, Norway, from 29 to 30 April 2024. Together with the Norwegian and Swedish transport ministers, she will observe NATO’s Immediate Response 2024 defence exercise, which will practise military mobility and reception of military support.