New Bar

Before the meeting, the Head of the Region visited three enterprises under construction in the special economic zone: Severkhim, LLP, RTF PVL, LLP and Metallogamma, LLP. The first two enterprises are planned to start up in two months while cenosphere production has been already got up and running.

“Unfortunately, out of the total volume of investments in the SEZ, which is 50.2 billion tenge, the share of foreign investments is equal to 5.9 billion KZT,” – said the acting chairman of board of the management company Aibek Tursingaliev at the beginning of the meeting concerning the development of the special economic zone. – “Today we try to take our special zone to the international level. We plan to finish 2019 with a total investment of 100 billion KZT, more than 50% of which consist of the foreign direct investments. During the coming two years, we intend to implement at least 15 new projects, implementing 6 of them by the end of the year, to acquire two anchor projects with a total investment of at least 20 billion KZT  each and one transnational company to the SEZ.”

According to the Oblast Akim, the special zone managers must pay serious consideration not only to marketing but also to infrastructure issues. For this, it is necessary to identify where the implementation of the project is ineffective.

“We are welcoming if the work is really performed if not, we need to work hard on these issues with the initiators of the projects,” – Bulat Bakauov said. – “It is necessary to work on the design of infrastructure rationally so that projects do not lie in the table. We must design what we need tomorrow!”