Business

Norwegian ship design is challenging established shipping concepts. Innovative designers have developed a new bow shape that makes vessels safer, as well as reducing their impact on the environment. Read more

The American software company Microsoft is embracing Norwegian internet search technology. At the beginning of January, the company bought Fast Search and Transfer (FAST). Read more

Old and scruffy maps are replaced with electronic chart services. Electronic navigational chart systems have proved to be safer and more precise. Read more

Norway is the world’s fifth largest hydropower producer and the only industrialized nation able to meet its domestic power demand almost exclusively through hydropower. Read more