The Minister for Infrastructure () is a

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within the

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and appointed by the

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History

The office was formed in 1920 as the Minister of Communications (Transport) () which headed the Ministry of Communications (Transport). The office was renamed to Minister for Infrastructure in 2000. The minister is responsible for issues regarding

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

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bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...

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and

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. The current Minister for Infrastructure is Andreas Carlson, appointed on 18 October 2022.

List of ministers

Footnotes

References

{{Government ministries of Sweden