A delegation of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) led by the Director Gordan Milinić visited Bihać where they met with the Mayor Šuhret Fazlić and the city administration representatives.
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The Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH aims to
facilitate the inflow of foreign investments in BiH, through cooperation with
government institutions and investors, and to assist investors to establish
contacts with the public and private sectors.
The Director Milinić stressed the importance of more intensive cooperation of
FIPA and the city of Bihać in order to adequately make investors familiarized
with all investment potentials of Bihać, through prepared projects and
investment locations.
The Mayor Fazlić said that with an attractive geostrategic
location, good infrastructure connections, a long tradition in various
manufacturing industries with particular emphasis on the wood processing
industry, tourism and agriculture, the city of Bihać can be an ideal location
for foreign investors. Bihać especially needs investors to build hotels and
accommodation capacities to follow the trend of constant increase in the number
of tourists. Last year, 60,000 tourists visited national park Una.
As a very attractive projects for foreign investors are
evaluated: the project of building a regional business and tourism airport
Golubić and construction of a spa centre Gata. The City of Bihać will provide
maximum support to foreign investors and has already started testing model of One-Stop-Shop,
so that an investor has all necessary documentation with a maximum of two coming
to the city’s administration.
The FIPA Director visited the industrial complex
(former Bira-Gorenje), which covers an area of 70,000 m2 with a total of
40,000 m2 of industrial halls with complete infrastructure and industrial
track. Within this zone, there is modern equipment for the production of
refrigeration appliances, paint shop, plastic moulding machines and machines
for the production of Styrofoam. Considering that there were employed 500
workers, it is necessary to find a strategic partner to restart production.