• Chile’s Minister of Transport, Juan Carlos Muñoz; the Undersecretary of Public Works, Danilo Núñez; Undersecretary of Mining, Suina Chahuán; InvestChile Director, Karla Flores; and Acting Director of Concessions, Claudio Soto, traveled to Germany and Switzerland to present new business opportunities in their respective sectors.

The fifth day of InvestChile Week, the investment promotion roadshow organized by the Chilean Foreign Investment Promotion Agency, wrapped up today with events in Zurich and Berlin. The roadshow includes 40 business activities in seven cities across six European countries, including London, Paris, Berlin, and Zurich this week.

In Berlin, Minister of Transport, Juan Carlos Muñoz, held meetings with executives from MAN and Daimler, leading German manufacturers of electric buses and trucks. He also met with editors from Axel Springer, the country’s largest media group, to discuss electromobility and public transportation. “They’re very interested in learning how Chile has become a global leader in electromobility, particularly in public transport. We had a great conversation, and I think it opens doors to showcase what our country can offer in its leadership role to the rest of the continent,” he said.

Also in Berlin, Undersecretary of Mining Suina Chahuán—together with InvestChile’s Investment Commissioner for Germany, Vanessa Séverin, and the Head of InvestChile’s Investment Promotion Division, Salvatore Di Giovanni—led a roundtable discussion on Chile’s National Lithium Strategy and related opportunities with local mining companies. She also held meetings with public and private mining sector representatives. “Yesterday, we had the opportunity to meet with German suppliers to present Chile’s value proposition and potential investment opportunities in the mining industry. Today, we participated in a roundtable to discuss progress on the National Lithium Strategy and the investment opportunities currently available,” said Chahuán. The Undersecretary of Mining also highlighted bilateral meetings with Germany’s Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources and companies such as Aurubis, which is “a key smelting company from which we have much to learn in terms of adding value in Chile,” she noted.

Swiss infrastructure

In Zurich, Undersecretary of Public Works, Danilo Núñez—together with InvestChile Director, Karla Flores, and Acting Director of Concessions, Claudio Soto—led a morning session with Swiss infrastructure companies, organized in collaboration with investment promotion group Switzerland Global Enterprise. During the event, they presented the 2026 concessions project portfolio, followed by a series of bilateral meetings with companies interested in the opportunities related to the portfolio.

Subsequently, the delegation—including InvestChile’s Investment Commissioner for Italy and Switzerland, Francisca Müller, and Juan Eduardo Chackiel, Head of the Financial Analysis Division at the General Directorate of Concessions—met with Swiss Re, the world’s largest reinsurance company, founded 150 years ago.

In the afternoon, the authorities visited the Grundwasserwerk Hardhof water treatment facility, where they were able to observe the operations of the Hardhof groundwater treatment plant, which supplies Zurich households with 20,000 to 150,000 cubic meters of water daily, using only gravity for distribution after the initial pumping.

“We have wrapped up a great week of activities with InvestChile, during which we visited London, Paris, and Zurich, meeting with a multitude of companies that expressed their interest in learning more about the Chilean market, upcoming infrastructure tenders, and public-private partnerships through the concessions system. We met with both business leaders and investment funds that support these projects, and we’re very satisfied because we expect the large number of projects that will be tendered by the Ministry of Public Works through the concessions system to attract major international firms,” said Núñez in his positive assessment of the roadshow.

InvestChile Director, Karla Flores, also highlighted companies’ interest in Chile’s economic outlook, noting that “in addition to promoting opportunities in key sectors, we’ve been able to discuss Chile’s progress on regulatory streamlining, government targets in our priority sectors, the public portfolio of projects in which foreign companies can participate, and how InvestChile can support their establishment in Chile. It has been an intense but extremely positive week.”

InvestChile Week Europe continues on Monday in Milan, with the participation of the Minister of Public Works, Jessica López.