Bahir Dar Industrial Park, located in Ethiopia's Amhara region, has started exporting textiles. One of the 13 industrial parks in Ethiopia, Bahir Dar Industrial Park is fully dedicated to textile production.
The industrial park, which went operational in October 2020, has so far created permanent and temporary employment for 1,300 workers.
Hop Lun Apparel Ethiopia PLC, a company founded in Hong Kong in 1992, has become the first company to export apparel from its production plant at Bahir Dar Industrial Park. The company has exported 75,000 apparel, worth over $570,000, to the US market.
Tiruye Kume, General Manager of Bahir Dar Industrial Park, remarked the industrial park will have an important role to play in alleviating the lack of foreign currency as it goes on to operate in its full capacity. Employment, skill transfer, and generating foreign exchange are priority areas the industrial park is focused on, she added.
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Source: FBC (Amharic)
