Board of Directors of Jordan Industrial Estates Corporation (JIEC) decided to float a tender to implement the first phase of Zarqa Industrial Estate (ZIE) to a local contracting company, at a total cost of JD21 million.
In a statement on Saturday, a JIEC board meeting, chaired by its head, Louay Sahweil, and in the presence of the corporation’s Director General, Omar Juwaid, the board said a tender was issued to carry out the project, which is one of government priorities for 2021-2023, aimed is to bring about development in the Kingdom’s various regions and provide more job opportunities for Jordanian youth.
The project also aims to make the Jordanian industrial estates the “ideal” environment for industrial investment, by taking advantage of their investor advantages and support services, whichwould facilitate business operations, the statement noted.
Juwaid said the ZIE’s first phase includes development of 1,116 dunum out of the estate’s total 4,700- dunum land, which would be developed over multiple stages.
Within the first phase, he said construction of all the estate’s infrastructure and industrial buildings on a 22,000 sqm area will be carried out, within an expected period of about 3 years.
Juwaiad stressed the importance of establishing ZIE to attract investors and stimulate the region’s existing industrial projects to house businesses within its borders and take advantage of the estate’s incentives.
The ZIE , once ready and operational, would attract many industrial investments in many productive fields, such as foodstuff, as well as chemical, packaging and engineering industries, he pointed out.
SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY