1st Phase of Aden Industrial Zone to Be Initiated Soon [Archives:2000/36/Local News]

Practical implementation of the first phase of Aden Industrial Zone is to begin next October, Mr. Dirhem Abdo Noman, Vice-Chairman of the General Board of Free Zones, Chairman of Aden Free Zone, told the “Yemen Times”. He added that during the first week of this month a Dutch company: Nako, shall arrive to receive plans concerning the Goods & Stevedoring Village (GSV) as well as tender documents which it had prepared for the execution of the project
Mr. Noman maintained that recent work on the road leading to GSV had already been started. He also expressed his hope that all phases of work at the Free Zone shall be implemented in a period earlier than scheduled. American companies have submitted requests for establishing different investment projects at the Aden Free Zone, Mr. Noman said adding that there was wide-scale demand from Arab and foreign investment companies.
He also said that at present final arrangements were being made for signing fresh contracts with a number of companies operating in the Free Zone. These companies’ activities have increased as the number of containers shipped through the port have increased during the first half of this year. The number reached 140,000 containers.

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