Salmon transport fines announced

The Trøndelag / Trondheim news from the last 48 hours: the government announces fines for salmon transports whose crates let bloody water leak out, a singer from Hommelvik receives a private message from the Beatles, and Norske tog presents in Berlin the first new trainsets of its long-distance programme.

Trøndelag / Trondheim news: Fines announced for salmon transport

The Norwegian government has announced that it would fine drivers and transport companies if water mixed with blood leaks from vehicles transporting salmon (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim). The fish travels in crates filled with ice. When temperatures are too high, the ice melts and the bloody water escapes from the truck.

According to NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim, these leaks create dangerous conditions for traffic and can also harm the environment. Drivers risk a fine of NOK 2,000 and transport companies a fine of NOK 20,000 if a leak is detected on a fish transport.

The measure is not going down well in the road sector. Knut Gravråk, director general of Norges Lastebileier-Forbund, believes the government “is taking the man instead of the ball”: the cause of the problem appears long before the transport begins, he tells NRK. Trøndelag county is among the areas where the salmon farming industry and its road transport play an important role in local economic activity.

A Hommelvik artist receives a message from the Beatles

Rie Aurora Aagaard, 22, from Hommelvik in Trøndelag, published a video in July in which she covers the Beatles song “You Won’t See Me” (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim). Two months later, she receives a private message from the group’s account: “We love your video and would like to share it on our channels.” The video was then shared with the account’s 5.9 million followers.

“It is the biggest band in the world and my favourite band, it could not have been better,” she tells NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim. Her first reaction, she says, was disbelief: “This cannot be true, you don’t get a message from the Beatles just like that.” She calls the episode incredible and surreal, and emphasises that the band itself sharing it mattered even more.

New trainsets for lines serving Trondheim

Norske tog AS presented in Berlin on Tuesday the first trainsets of its new long-distance rolling stock, from an order worth NOK 8 billion placed in 2023 with Swiss manufacturer Stadler (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim). 17 trainsets of 220 metres have been ordered; they are to run on the Dovrebanen, Bergensbanen, Sørlandsbanen and Nordlandsbanen. The Dovre and Nordland lines serve Trondheim.

“This is the biggest renewal of Norway’s long-distance train fleet in several decades,” project manager Julian Zeitzmann tells NRK. Several trains currently in service are more than 40 years old and must be retired. The announced allocation assigns 7 trainsets to the Bergensbanen, 3 to the Sørlandsbanen and 3 to the Dovrebanen.

The next part of the programme remains a long phase of testing and approval before any entry into service in Norway. “Being able to show the first completed trains is an important step for everyone who has been involved in the project,” adds Julian Zeitzmann, who notes that validation work still lies ahead for the teams.

📌 Local briefs

A man was arrested with an axe at a nightclub in Trondheim on Wednesday (Adresseavisen).

The body of an adult man was discovered on Thursday morning at 08:45 in a grove in the Tiller district of Trondheim by a police officer walking a police dog in his spare time (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim). The person had not been identified on Thursday; an autopsy was decided and the checks will be compared with missing-person reports in the region. The police have no indications of a criminal act.

Adresseavisen has also announced the death of Nina Wikan (24 September).

Sources: NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim, Adresseavisen, The Local Norway — Period: 24 September 2026 and 25 September 2026