2018

How incentives and SEZs are creating jobs and uplifting poor areas

How incentives and SEZs are creating jobs and uplifting poor areas

3 minutos South African’s Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies highlighted the job-creating potential of his department’s incentive programme, and the importance of special economic zones, when he addressed MPs on Tuesday.  He said the R18.8bn allocation in the budget over the next three years for the Department of Trade and Industry’s incentive programmes would enable the government to continue to provide financial support to the private sector. The focus would be on labour-intensive sectors that could create jobs for youth.  Davies briefed Parliament’s trade and industry portfolio committee on Continue lendo

Las zonas francas españolas impulsan la asociación de zonas francas europeas

Las zonas francas españolas impulsan la asociación de zonas francas europeas

3 minutos Delegados de 10 países que representan unas cien zonas francas han firmado este lunes, coincidiendo con el congreso mundial de Zonas Francas de Dubai, un protocolo de intenciones para constituir la Asociación de Zonas Francas de Europa, bajo el impulso de las zonas francas españolas y el apoyo de la Red Mundial de Parques Científicos y Tecnológicos (IASP). El protocolo sienta las bases para constituir una entidad de incidencia internacional que les represente y que haga de la innovación su elemento definitorio, ya que Continue lendo

Industry 4.0 and the industrial Internet of Things: A perfect fit for the modern free zone

Industry 4.0 and the industrial Internet of Things: A perfect fit for the modern free zone

2 minutos Industry 4.0 has arrived, and it is reshaping the relationship between manufacturers, digital systems, and skilled and unskilled workers.  Also known as the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0 is the fusion of automation technologies, such as artificial intelligence-driven machine learning and data exchange, with advanced manufacturing technologies such as robotics.  It includes cyber-physical systems, the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine communications, and cloud computing. The concept of industry 4.0 was developed in Germany; the “4.0” is a nod to previous revolutionary industrial Continue lendo

Vietnam to create new playing field via SAEZs

Vietnam to create new playing field via SAEZs

4 minutos Developing three SAEZs (Special Administrative-Economic Zones) shows the determination of the Party, the National Assembly, and the Vietnamese government to establishing a new playing field and introduce new rules through outstanding and competitive policies on attracting domestic and foreign investment. At the conference on Special Economic Zones–Institution, Policy, and Expectations for Success held this morning, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung emphasised two major targets in SAEZs development. First, the establishment of the three high-growth zones will affect and spill Continue lendo

Empresa Primus sem receber do governo desmonta canteiros das obras da ZPE de Cáceres

Empresa Primus sem receber do governo desmonta canteiros das obras da ZPE de Cáceres

1 minuto A empresa Primus Incorporação e Construção Ltda, aos poucos está deixando o canteiro da obra da ZPE (Zona de Processamento e Exportação) de Cáceres. Nesta quinta-feira (17) a reportagem do Cáceres Notícias encontrou um canteiro de obra totalmente desmontado. Os barracões existentes no local, já haviam sido desmontados, apenas com os pilares no local, e já sem teto permaneciam no local apenas dois funcionários. A cena de desolação dos últimos dois funcionários do local, remete as expectativas do povo cacerenses com a construção Continue lendo