Hama-SANA

Hama industrialists called for supporting industry and industrialists, providing means of energy, facilitating procedures for importing raw materials, and supporting and compensating industrialists whose facilities were damaged by the war on Syria.

The industrialists' demands during the annual conference of the General Authority of the Hama Chamber of Industry, which was held today at the city's cultural center, included facilitating the procedures for obtaining industrial diesel, and coordinating with the Customs Secretariat and the Directorate of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection when conducting patrols for industrial facilities.

The interventions called for reconsidering the fees and financial taxes imposed on industrial establishments and securing electricity for them, reviewing the prices of the exchanges allocated to industrialists, addressing and seizing the issue of smuggled and violating vegetable oils, especially since there are 12 factories for the production of oils in the governorate, studying the price of foodstuffs intended for export, and establishing clusters for industrial facilities located within the boundaries of the Hama City Council.

The Assistant Minister of Industry, Eng. Asaad Warda, spoke during the conference about the importance of supporting the national industry, developing it, improving its quality and restoring its presence in foreign markets, stressing the ministry's follow-up to everything that was raised during the conference and standing on the obstacles that hinder industrial work.

The President of the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Industry Ghazwan Al-Masri touched on the role of the Union as one of the pillars of the national economy in doing everything that contributes to facing the challenges imposed by the circumstances and left their effects on the local economy and industry, expressing the Union's keenness to support the industrial productive sector and enhance the ability of the business sector to provide production requirements.

For his part, the head of the Hama Chamber of Industry, Ziad Arabo, stressed the role of industrialists in building the country, supporting its economy and withstanding the challenges and difficult economic conditions, noting the chamber's keenness to address the issues of industrialists, especially those related to the expansion of the industrial zone in Hama and securing electricity for the work of facilities, and the importance of training programs held by the Chamber's Training and Rehabilitation Center to secure job opportunities for young men and women to improve their living conditions and benefit from their energies in continuing the wheel of production.

The head of the Hama City Council, Engineer Mukhtar Hourani, indicated that 1.2 billion liras have been transferred to the electricity company to implement medium-tension networks in parts 2 and 3 of the expansion of the industrial zone.

The conference was attended by the governor of Hama, Dr. Mahmoud Zanboua, the secretary of the Hama branch of the Baath Party, Engineer Ashraf Bachoury, and administrative, economic and civil actors.

Abdullah Alsheikh

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