Graham Morton, senior policy adviser for the CBI, said: "We're strongly in favour of much better strategic links between London and the regions.
"High speed links between London and Liverpool and London and Manchester and Newcastle would bring better economic growth in the regions and allow a better balance between the regions and London and the south east."
North West Development Agency chief executive Steven Broomhead, who has also travelled on the German test track, said: "The economic benefits of a Liverpool to London link in less than an hour would be enormously beneficial.
"I'm very interested in this project. It merits some attention and the agency will be looking at it."
Ultraspeed has met Liverpool Chamber of Commerce chief executive Jack Stopforth and the Chamber will receive a presentation from him in July.
As former boss of Cumbria Inward Investment Agency, Mr Stopforth was one of the first business leaders in Britain to experience the train in action on its test track in Lathen, Germany.
He also helped arrange a presentation by UK Ultraspeed to Prime Minister Tony Blair in Downing Street.
Mr Stopforth said: "This system drives a horse and cart through all the old arguments of peripherality of the regions.
"The Liverpool and Manchester airport link has to be looked at and it gives some backbone to the Northern Way concept which is about equalising the northern economy with the south east.
"Anything that brings wealth and invesment from the south to the north has to be considered."
Riverside MP Louise Ellman has also travelled on a version of the Maglev system.
"We should think big and be adventurous and look at high speed rail schemes to invest in," she said.
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