Hojjat Abdulmaleki said at the “Investment Packages and Tribute to Major Investors and Exporters” ceremony held at Expo 2024: We unveiled 200 investment packages worth 207 trillion tomans, and therefore the capital packages that we have launched in the free and special economic zones. last year reached 1,200 plots worth more than 1,100,000 billion tomans.
He continued: These investment packages include preliminary feasibility studies for each project that show the profitability of these projects.
For each of these projects, land, water, electricity, gas and infrastructure were provided, and the start-up authorization for this investment was issued anonymously, and all this information can be found on the website of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of Free Zones at the address irfreezones. contract.
We invite Iranian and foreign investors to visit this site and view the packages.
The secretary of the country's Supreme Council of Free and Special Economic Zones said that so far 1,200 investment packages have been unveiled, which will reach 2,000 packages by the end of the year, adding: almost investments of different sizes, from several billion tomans to several trillion tomans and in different sectors of the food industry, clothing, information technology, tourism, automobile, chemical and petrochemical industry and in all opposite regions of the country, there are different packages and complete diversity in terms of capital size and geography is available and for all interests, packages We have investments.
Last year, investment demand in free zones increased 4.2 times
Abdul Maliki said: Over the past two years, free and special economic zones have become an alternative destination for capital wishing to leave the country.
Many people who have decided to withdraw their capital from the country are now turning to the free zone and discovering the advantages of investing here.
Furthermore, last year, investment demand in these areas increased by 4.2 times compared to the previous year; Projects whose construction began last year were 7.5 times more than the previous year.
He continued: In addition, the amount of investments placed on the land and transformed into buildings, machines and factories increased 3 times compared to the previous year.
These are all events that are the result of special attention to the field of investment and which will continue this year.
We promised that free economic zones would become the main economic engines of the country.
The Secretary of the Supreme Council of Free and Special Economic Zones of the country said about the export statistics of free zones: We summarize the economic statistics, but in summary, the total of free and special economic zones is about 18 billion dollars in 2022 and almost unchanged in 2023. We had exports.
The trade balance of the free and special economic zones is positive at about $14.5 billion, and we imported foreign currency into the country and had only $3.5 billion in imports.
We expect to see a jump in exports in 2024 with two approaches, firstly by diversifying export products and secondly by moving towards exports with higher value added and knowledge base.