Anaklia City to Collaborate Aqaba with SEZ in Jordan

The Anaklia City team visited the Aqaba Special Economic Zone (ASEZ) in Jordan to hold negotiations with Zone management and a number of large companies.

The Aqaba Special Economic Zone is considered among the most strategic and successful projects of recent years in the region. They and Anaklia City have begun a partnership and arranged a Memorandum of understanding, signed by Anaklia City Executive Director Keti Bochorishvili and Nasser Shraideh chef commissioner of the ASEZA. The memorandum provides for experience-sharing and future cooperation.

Within the framework of the visit, Anaklia City management held negotiations with Aqaba’s Special Economic Zone Authority, its developer company ADC, and the Aqaba Ports Management. The Anaklia City and Economic Zone team also met with several major international companies working in the SEZ for the logistics, construction and hotel industries. Georgia and Anaklia's potential and future partnership were discussed during these meetings.

Aqaba is one of the largest Special Economic Zones in Jordan and is based in a strategic location near the Aqaba Port on the Red Sea. It includes the Jordan Coast, Port infrastructure and is served by the airport.

The ASEZ was initiated in 2001 for the development of the tourism and service sectors and industry, and to date has managed to attract more than $16 billion and represents a number of international companies in the region.

Anaklia City has also begun cooperation with other large global economic zones- South Korea's Incheon and the China-Kazakhstan large economic border zone of Khorgos.

Anaklia City and its own Special Economic Zone, which will be developed in the vicinity of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port, is expected to become a regional industrial, logistics and business center. It will be built as a city based on green and "smart city" principles. Development of the project began in 2017.

NIA PATARAIA