Daraa-Sana
The head of the Daraa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Engineer Qassem Al-Masalma, confirmed that the reopening of the Nassib-Jaber border crossing with Jordan at its full capacity in terms of the number of employees and infrastructure will contribute to revitalizing the economy in Syria.
Al-Masalma explained in a statement to SANA Economic Bulletin that the situation at the crossing is gradually improving in parallel with the improvement in the security situation and is reflected in the reality of professions, trade, industry and others, pointing out that the movement of freight will increase in both directions and the volume of Syrian agricultural and industrial exports to the Arab Gulf states and Jordan, especially that the markets of the Arab Gulf states It is one of the most important markets for Syrian exports.
He pointed out that there is a large freight fleet of refrigerators and trucks that meets the needs of the commercial movement, contributes to increasing revenues and services activity, and revives the work of the tourist facilities accompanying the movement of the crossing.
Al-Masalma explained that the movement of imports from East Asian countries such as China, India and others through the Gulf countries will increase with the passage of days, which will provide the speed of arrival of goods, given that the Nassib-Jaber crossing is an international road between Europe, Turkey and the Gulf states, and the movement of Syrian, Jordanian and Lebanese trucks will increase, which is reflected in the increase in customs collections in the currency foreign.
Al-Masalma called for the need to support industrialists to rehabilitate their destroyed or suspended facilities and motivate them by adjusting procedures to suit the requirements of the stage, stressing the importance of compensation for those affected and providing soft loans to traders and industrialists to increase production and start exporting in conjunction with the reopening of the crossing.
It is noteworthy that the Nassib crossing and the Syrian-Jordanian free zone constitute a suitable environment for carrying out economic and development activity in Daraa, especially as the free zone included in an earlier stage of the factories and laboratories whose number exceeded 100 factories and establishments.
Qasim Miqdad
SANA Economic Bulletin
