09-Apr-2019

Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Dr. Tarek Al-Hammouri
said that Jordanian exports, especially industrial ones, have witnessed a
remarkable improvement since the beginning of this year, expected to be a
promising year in this field, which will positively affect the overall national
economy. Local industries and generate more jobs.
Al-Hammouri said during a tour of a number of factories in the city of Salt
yesterday, accompanied by the head of the chambers of industry Jordan and Amman
Fathi al-Jaghbir and a number of officials of the ministry, we have a great
duty to promote the Jordanian industry and provide all possible support and work
to overcome All the obstacles and difficulties it faces so that it can compete
strongly with other countries, as well as seek to reach new export markets and
open them to our products.
He pointed out that his tour of production plants in the city of Salt comes
within the program designed to visit factories in the provinces to see their
situation on the ground and to discuss their departments and employees to
access mechanisms to help them to improve their manufacturing capabilities and
to provide what they need and work to solve any problems they face within our
available capabilities.
Al-Hammouri added that the Ministry of Industry and Trade is working
intensively with the Jordan and Amman Chambers of Industry through joint daily
coordination to overcome the obstacles facing the industrial sector, exchanging
information between the two parties and passing any comments from the chambers
of industry to ministry cadres in order to deal with them. Kingdom or abroad.
Al Hammouri expressed his keenness to listen to the factory departments and to
know all the details of the work on the ground with a focus on finding export
opportunities to new markets, either to Africa or Eastern Europe and others, in
addition to benefiting from the facilities that were recently introduced to the
Iraqi market and opening the border and direct export, And industries were not
exported to Iraq in the export of its products, stressing the support of the
government, especially the Ministry of Industry and Trade with all its potential
this trend.
The head of Jordan and Amman Chambers of Industry, Fathi al-Jaghbir praised the
initiative of Minister Al-Hammouri to visit the factories in the provinces to
get acquainted with their situation in a practical way and to work to solve any
problems they face either with government agencies or to help them develop
their production and open export markets. Omar Al-Razaz and Minister of
Industry and Trade Dr. Tarek Al-Hammouri is highly regarded by the industrial
sector.
He pointed out that what we saw during our tour of a number of factories in
Salt confirms the development of Jordanian industry in spite of the challenges
facing it, especially on the issue of production costs, which is the main
factor limiting the competition with other countries, especially energy costs,
which we demand the government to take measures to reduce these costs for Our
national industries.
He stressed that the industrial sector is one of the largest sectors generating
employment and employment, so it must be supported in a real way and not only
facilitate procedures, but the development of effective mechanisms to reduce
the cost of production and energy most prominent.
He called on the municipalities of the Kingdom to work to provide good
infrastructure for industrial zones and sites where there are factories and not
to impose fees for the purpose of collection only, these factories are
developmental levers in the provinces and occupy the people of the region and
be the attractions of support services, so must be well served by roads and
lighting and cleanliness This unfortunately does not exist on the ground
through what we have seen in our tours.
The visit included three factories in Salt, the first of which was a motorcycle
factory. The factory, which has 700 motorcycles a year, was introduced as the
first motorcycle factory in Jordan. The tour included a chocolate factory which
produces many locally competitive items And abroad and runs girls and young
people from the city of Salt, and visit a factory for veterinary medicines and
directly provides 70 jobs and exports its products to a number of Arab and
foreign countries.
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