May 13, Brest /Alevtina Chernovalova. > > > Near Brest will build a plant for the production of batteries, BelTA learned from head of the Department of foreign economic relations of administration of the free economic zone "Brest" Alexey Lachinov. New resident of the FEZ will be engaged in the production of batteries. Near Brest will be launched full-cycle production of this product. According to the business plan, the volume of investments will amount to $14 million.
For the project in the industrial area "Airport" is selected land with the necessary infrastructure. It is planned that the construction will start this year. In January-March 2016 residents attracted from abroad in the free economic zone of $10.6 million, including the amount of foreign direct investment on a net basis totaled $5.5 million, the Most actively Finance the activities of Sughd FEZ representatives of Russia, Poland, Germany and Italy. In General, in the free economic zone "Brest" was over 80 companies in more than 20 countries.
The volume of exports of resident of the Brest investment platform in the first quarter of this year amounted to about $110 million growth Rate over the same period last year — 114,8%. Enterprises to actively carry out the work on diversification of markets. In particular, Kobrin PP "Polesie" more than twice increased the supply of toys in the Netherlands and Sweden, OOO "Ametist metal Grup" 4 times increased its exports to Belgium, JSC "BELZ" has established sales in Hungary. Alexey Lachinov also noted that there is now a market stabilization of Ukraine and Belarusdo manufacturers actively ship their goods to this country. In January-March, the SEZ has exported products to 42 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Chile, Iran, Jordan, UAE.-0-