Stockholm-Arlanda is an integral part of the region where the airport operates. This is why it is very important for us to join with partners in efforts to develop the Stockholm region into the obvious choice for business people, travellers and visitors to Scandinavia, thereby strengthening Stockholm’s role as “The Capital of Scandinavia”.
Here you can read more about the various collaboration projects that the airport belongs to. In some cases, the English name of an organisation stated after its Swedish name is our own unofficial translation.
Arlanda Logistic Network
Cargo and freight forwarding are important elements of Stockholm-Arlanda’s operations and play a significant role in the Arlanda region. For those market players that work in the logistics industry, directly or indirectly, there is an established network. Here they collaborate on matters concerning accessibility, the environment, training and marketing.
Contact Swedavia: maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se or karsten.bjarbo@swedavia.se
Gateway Stockholm
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport collaborates with the Ports of Stockholm for the purpose of helping make the Stockholm region the leading logistics hub in the Baltic Sea region within a decade. Gateway Stockholm is a forum where companies, organisations, political leaders and officials can exchange ideas and work towards common goals. Gateway Stockholm collaborates closely with the Council for the Stockholm-Mälar Region.
Contact Swedavia: maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se
Mälardalsrådet (the Council for the Stockholm-Mälar Region)
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport belongs to the Infrastructure Group of the Council for the Stockholm-Mälar Region, whose task is to generate knowledge and coordination on regional infrastructure issues. The aim is to identify important regional projects and prioritise these in preparation for future government bills on infrastructure. To further strengthen the role of infrastructure issues, the airport participates in the task of developing regional development plans both for Stockholm and Uppsala.
More information
Handelskammaren Arlandaregionen (Chamber of Commerce, Arlanda Region)
The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce’s local committee for the Arlanda Region includes business owners in the municipalities immediately surrounding Stockholm-Arlanda Airport: Sigtuna, Knivsta and Upplands Väsby. The committee works to ensure that the business community in the Arlanda Region will have the prerequisites to flourish. It uses such means as pursuing a continuous dialogue with political leaders in the region and organising company meetings and seminars to promote business.
To the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce’s website
Contact Swedavia: maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se
Handelskamrarnas Näringslivsråd (Business Council of the Chambers of Commerce)
Stockholm-Arlanda participates in the Business Council of the Chambers of Commerce, which includes the business community and chambers of commerce in the Lake Mälaren Valley region. The task of the Council is to present the views of the business community on necessary infrastructure investments to the Council for the Stockholm-Mälar Region.
To the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce website
Contact Swedavia: maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se
Nyföretagarcentrum (Centre for New Entrepreneurs)
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport is involved in new enterprise in its home municipality of Sigtuna. Entrepreneurship lays the groundwork for the development and growth of a region.
To more information about Nyföretagarcentrum
Contact Swedavia: maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se
Näringlivssamarbete inom Sigtuna kommun (Sigtuna Municipal Business Alliance)
The airport participates in the Municipality of Sigtuna’s Framtidsgrupp (Future Team), which meets a few times per year. The Future Team consists of active business owners in Sigtuna who help the municipality to identify good mechanisms of cooperation between itself and the business community.
Contact Swedavia: maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se
Strategic Development and Cooperation Between Airport Regions, STRAIR interreg IIIC
Together with surrounding municipalities (Sigtuna, Upplands Väsby, Vallentuna, and Knivsta) as well as the respective regional planning offices in Uppsala and Stockholm, Stockholm-Arlanda is working in an EU project to strengthen the business community in regions close to airports. The project is based on analysing and exchanging experience concerning business development directly or indirectly connected to airports. The objective for the Arlanda Region is to develop a joint programme of action for business development.
Other participating regions are Härryda (site of Göteborg-Landvetter Airport near Gothenburg), Barcelona and the Canary Islands (Spain), Glasgow (Scotland) and Ostend (Belgium).
To the STRAIR website
Contact Swedavia: maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se
Cooperation with noise abatement associations
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport meets representatives of the noise abatement associations in nearby communities such as Upplands Väsby, Sollentuna and Rosersberg several times per year. Among other things, these meetings have resulted in a number of suggestions for noise-reduction measures, some of which have been implemented or are in the process of being implemented.
Contact Swedavia: susanne.rundstrom@swedavia.se
Stockholm Access
Stockholm Access is the name of a regional joint venture aimed at creating better international access. Here Stockholm-Arlanda Airport works together with inward investment and tourist organisations both at the regional and national level to market the Stockholm region as a destination.
To Stockholm Access
Contact Swedavia: anna-karin.yngstrom@swedavia.se
Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté (SOK, the Swedish Olympic Committee)
In 2005 Swedavia, formerly LFV, and Stockholm-Arlanda Airport signed a sponsorship agreement with the Swedish Olympic Committee. Stockholm-Arlanda, which is the natural outbound and inbound airport for Sweden’s Olympic competitors, is making this commitment to underscore the importance of sports in Sweden. This sponsorship involved numerous activities at the airport related to the Winter Olympics in Turin (February 2006) and will involve activities during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Contact Swedavia: maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se
More information on SOK
Tourist industry
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport is also active in a number of marketing initiatives aimed at attracting travellers to Stockholm and the Lake Mälaren region. The airport has a representative on the Board of the local tourism company Sigtuna Turism AB, which includes Congress Arlanda, and in the steering committees of two other convention-promotion ventures – Congress Uppsala and Congress Stockholm.
In addition, the airport participates in a joint venture for the development of cruise traffic to Stockholm. Here Stockholm-Arlanda’s role, as the gateway to Sweden, is to provide the first positive impression of this destination to inbound travellers, keep the steering committee informed about airport development work and handle aviation-related issues for the steering committee.
Contact Swedavia about Sigtuna Turism: jan.lindqvist@swedavia.se or maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se
Contact Swedavia about Congress Stockholm and Congress Uppsala: maria.wall.petrini@swedavia.se
Contact Swedavia about Stockholm Cruise Network: gita.ray@swedavia.se
Link to Congress Stockholm
Link to Stockholm Cruising
Link to Congress Uppsala
Link to Sigtuna Turism