Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries

Administers Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Norway's department integrating trade, fishing, and innovation policy.

Norway's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, NFD, is the government department responsible for industrial and seafood policy, shipping policy, and the broader framework for trade, research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. It is primarily a policy ministry, with most operational support flowing through agencies and state-owned companies such as Innovation Norway, the Research Council of Norway, Eksfin, and the Norwegian Space Agency.

NFD's direct schemes are narrow but real. They include the rolling NFDs tilskudd til særskilte prosjekter, which supports organisations, businesses, and research environments with co-financing, and the temporary Oslofjord fishers scheme, which has a 25 million NOK framework and a per-recipient cap of 3.5 million NOK. Other direct lines cover youth fishing projects and vessel-reporting equipment, keeping the ministry's own portfolio close to fisheries and policy-adjacent work.

The ministry therefore sits above a much larger delivery network than it runs itself. Applicants looking for broader business, innovation, or maritime support usually end up with the subordinate agencies, while NFD handles a few niche grant lines and the policy decisions that frame them.