Aleppo-Sana
Members of the Aleppo Chamber of Industry demanded, during the annual general assembly meeting, the provision of energy carriers, an increase in electrical supply to industrial areas, and the provision of industrial production requirements of raw materials, especially cotton yarn, and permission to import them.
He called on the members of the Chamber to secure markets for external export, work to develop specifications and standards, reconsider the imposed customs duties, simplify procedures for obtaining import licenses, limit the rise in the price of raw materials for the production and manufacture of iron and its derivatives, and establish an industrial and commercial investment authority to open new markets with friendly countries and remedy the shortage of manpower and activate The fuel station in the industrial city of Sheikh Najjar and the provision of durum wheat to the bulgur and semolina factories.
Minister of Industry Ziad Sabbagh stressed during the meeting the importance of the industrial sector and joint work to advance it and increase production to confront the economic blockade, pointing out that coordination is taking place between the relevant ministries, the Federation of Chambers of Industry and Commerce and economic activities to secure energy carriers and provide electricity to industrialists after rehabilitating the generation plants, the most important of which is the thermal station in Aleppo and activating the role of The private sector to secure cotton yarn.
The Governor of Aleppo, Hussein Diab, reviewed the efforts made by the governorate to serve the industrial areas by continuing to remove rubble, open roads, and coordinate with the heads of the industrial committees to deliver electricity, which contributes to increasing production.
The head of the Aleppo Chamber of Industry, Faris Al-Shihabi, pointed to the need to provide the requirements of the production process, open new markets for export, and provide support to the industrial sector to confront the conditions of the siege, calling for activating industrial lending, attracting capital outside the country, providing facilities to investors and stimulating production.
During the meeting, 300 million Syrian pounds were allocated to implement service projects and improve infrastructure in the industrial areas, including 200 million pounds provided by Aleppo City Council and 100 million pounds from Aleppo Chamber of Industry.
A number of industrialists in various sectors of the engineering, textile, chemical and food industries were honored and shields were presented to them in appreciation of their efforts to increase production. A short film was shown about the activities of the Chamber of Industry, conferences and exhibitions organized by it, and training and qualification courses.
The Minister of Industry had visited the Ministry of Industry’s vocational training center in the Maysaloon area of Aleppo and the leather industry training center, noting the center’s great impact on the societal reality and the labor market by introducing the young generation armed with science and knowledge and training it on modern machines and enabling it to participate in the rehabilitation and repair of damaged machines and releasing them from New in the production process.
In turn, the Director of the Vocational Training Complex in Aleppo, Eng. Basel Hosari, explained that the center includes four departments, and during the past two years 325 trainees have been graduated who entered the labor market in the private sector, as well as training of 71 teachers from the vocational training complexes in Syria in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and universities to spread science and knowledge in all governorates.
Qusai Razzouk
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