Dutch businesses eager to invest in fish processing
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Our Correspondent
CHITTAGONG, Nov 24: A two-member Dutch team of fisheries plant and fish processing industry today said Bangladesh being a land of rivers has immense potentials of fish resources and they are eager to invest in the sector and even relocate their fish processing plants from China to Bangladesh.
General Manager of Dutch Sea Fish Company Henk Bakker said he would relocate his fish processing plant from China if power and infrastructure facilities are ensured and export procedures of processed fish are eased.
Henk Bakker along with Albert Bakker, general manager of AB Seafood Ltd of the Netherlands, was exchanging views with president of the CCCI (Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry) MA Latif and other Chamber directors at the CCCI auditorium Wednesday morning.
Former FBCCI and CCCI director Morshed Murad Ibrahim and proprietor of Safayat Enterprise Zahurul Alam, among others, were present on the occasion.
Earlier, MA Latif MP welcomed the Dutch businessmen in the CCCI and requested them to invest in the pisciculture and fish processing industry.
He said Bangladesh now is one of the most lucrative destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region with a solid democratic system in politics and friendliest environment in the investment, besides offering a huge semi-skilled and skilled workforce at cheap cost.
He assured the Dutch businessmen of providing lands, utility services and infrastructure facilities for setting up industries in Chittagong and its adjacent locations.
CHITTAGONG, Nov 24: A two-member Dutch team of fisheries plant and fish processing industry today said Bangladesh being a land of rivers has immense potentials of fish resources and they are eager to invest in the sector and even relocate their fish processing plants from China to Bangladesh.
General Manager of Dutch Sea Fish Company Henk Bakker said he would relocate his fish processing plant from China if power and infrastructure facilities are ensured and export procedures of processed fish are eased.
Henk Bakker along with Albert Bakker, general manager of AB Seafood Ltd of the Netherlands, was exchanging views with president of the CCCI (Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry) MA Latif and other Chamber directors at the CCCI auditorium Wednesday morning.
Former FBCCI and CCCI director Morshed Murad Ibrahim and proprietor of Safayat Enterprise Zahurul Alam, among others, were present on the occasion.
Earlier, MA Latif MP welcomed the Dutch businessmen in the CCCI and requested them to invest in the pisciculture and fish processing industry.
He said Bangladesh now is one of the most lucrative destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region with a solid democratic system in politics and friendliest environment in the investment, besides offering a huge semi-skilled and skilled workforce at cheap cost.
He assured the Dutch businessmen of providing lands, utility services and infrastructure facilities for setting up industries in Chittagong and its adjacent locations.