The economic zone in Comrat, where the Japanese company Fujikura intends to work, could become the Moldovan region with the biggest prospects. In an interview for the portal gagauzvedomosti.md, the first vice governor of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia Vadim Ceban said this is an innovative project that aroused intense discussions, IPN reports.

Vadim Ceban said the production space of Fujikura within the industrial park in Comrat will be three to five hectares in area. “We have worked for a year to organize this park. We had to persuade investors and to interest them. All the state bodies became involved in this process rapidly and responsibly,” he stated.

The Japanese company Fujikura intends to start work in Comrat at the end of next January. The agreement to finance the infrastructure of the industrial park in Comrat, which has the status of free economic zone, has been already signed. The financing at the first stage will be 30 million lei, 19 million lei of which will be allocated from the National Regional Development Fund, while 11 million lei from the budget of ATU Gagauzia. The money will be used during 2018-2019.

The first vice governor of Gagauzia said potential employees were interviewed and there were received over 3,000 questionnaires. In September – October, representatives of Fujikura will hold interviews with candidates and these will be later trained. “I’m sure that the presence of the Japanese company in Comrat will open up new opportunities to Gagauzia. It is a significant moment for the whole Moldova. We have never had a sector of the automotive industry here. This type of production will modify the structure of our local economy and will promote us on the Western markets with an absolutely new product – cables for famous European car makes,” stated Vadim Ceban.

As to the designing of an industrial park in Ceadar-Lunga municipality, Vadim Ceban said a sum of 800,000 lei was allocated for the purpose. They work together with experts of the German development agency GIZ to think up the general park development plan and the plan for promoting this investment platform. After the designing, investments will start to be made in infrastructure.