{"id":23708,"date":"2024-05-31T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=23708"},"modified":"2024-05-31T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:43:08","slug":"an-agreement-to-establish-free-zone-in-blue-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/an-agreement-to-establish-free-zone-in-blue-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"An Agreement to Establish Free Zone in Blue Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events_Nahid Oshi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Nile Government, in cooperation with the Sudanese Company for Free Zones and Free Markets, intends to establish (the Blue Nile Free Zone)<br \/>\nAt the same time, the Governor of the Blue Nile Region, Lieutenant General Ahmed Al-Omda Badi, announced his government\u2019s keenness to support cooperation and provide appropriate conditions to enable all investors to implement their various investment projects.<br \/>\nPointing to the importance of the geographical spread of the Sudanese Free Zones and Free Markets Company in order to enhance the implementation of economic and development projects at the level of the various governorates of the region, He called during his address for the signing ceremony of two memorandums of understanding between the Blue Nile Government and the Sudanese Free Zones and Free Markets Company in implementing investment and commercial projects in the region, calling on the Region\u2019s Investment and Industry Authority to take immediate action and work to implement the two memorandums of understanding and implement them on the ground, directing the relevant authorities to the necessity of working to harness the available capabilities for the success of<br \/>\nthe Sudanese Company\u2019s projects for free zones and Free markets in the region.<br \/>\nStrategic location:<br \/>\nFor his part, the Managing Director of the Sudanese Free Zones and Duty Free Company, Omar Mohammad Sheikh El-Din Ali, stressed the importance of the company entering the Blue Nile region and providing its services to the people of the region who have suffered a number of scourges of war, destruction and displacement for years.<br \/>\nPointing out the strategic and geographical location of the Blue Nile region and benefiting from the preferential features that the region abounds in, especially its forest, animal, agricultural and mineral resources, which makes it an attractive region for investors at home and abroad,<br \/>\nReducing suffering:<br \/>\nSheikh El-Din said that the strategy of free markets is based on serving citizens and alleviating their suffering, by providing food, stuffs, electrical equipment and office supplies, in addition to supporting the development process and enhancing stability, stressing that the establishment of the Blue Nile Free Zone will work to support the progress of the economy locally, nationally and regionally. He stressed that the company will spare no effort in carrying out its national responsibilities in the reconstruction and rehabilitation program of areas affected by the war.<br \/>\nEconomic gains:<br \/>\nWhile the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in the Blue Nile Region, Jamal Ahmed Saleh Osman, pointed to the benefits resulting from the existence of a free zone for the citizens of the region in general and state workers in particular, especially in terms of supporting the local and national economy, noting the strategic location of the region as the country\u2019s border gate with the two neighboring countries, South Sudan and Ethiopia.<br \/>\nFor his part, the Director General of the Sudanese Duty Free Zones and Duty Free Company, Hamdan Khalifa Mukhtar, affirmed the company\u2019s commitment to implementing the two memorandums of understanding in support of the establishment of a duty free zone in the region and the opening of duty free outlets at the regional level, in addition to implementing the state workers\u2019 basket project.<br \/>\nInvestment support:<br \/>\nThe Director General of the Investment and Industry Authority in the Blue Nile Region, Khadija Ahmed Ali, considered the free zone project in the region a good opportunity to support investment and benefit from the capabilities available in the region, in addition to supporting and promoting the economy at the local and national levels.<br \/>\nIt should be noted that the two memorandums of understanding included an agreement to establish duty-free halls in Damazin, in addition to an agreement to provide petroleum products and their various derivatives, open outlets for duty-free markets, and implement the workers\u2019 basket project in the region. The area allocated to the free zone on land with an area of \u200b\u200b2 square kilometers of the original land was received. It is four and a half square kilometers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events_Nahid Oshi The Blue Nile Government, in cooperation with the Sudanese Company for Free Zones and Free Markets, intends to establish (the Blue Nile Free Zone) At the same time, the Governor of the Blue Nile Region, Lieutenant General Ahmed Al-Omda Badi, announced his government\u2019s keenness to support cooperation and provide appropriate conditions to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23713,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23708\/revisions\/23713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}