{"id":874,"date":"2014-01-16T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T14:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/?p=874"},"modified":"2014-01-16T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T14:10:06","slug":"saldanha-bay-attracts-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/news\/saldanha-bay-attracts-investment","title":{"rendered":"Saldanha Bay attracts investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_877\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/files\/2014\/01\/saldanha.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-877\" class=\" wp-image-877 \" title=\"Saldanha Bay\" alt=\"Saldanha Bay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/files\/2014\/01\/saldanha.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/files\/2014\/01\/saldanha.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/files\/2014\/01\/saldanha-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saldanha Bay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The recently launched Industrial Development Zone in Saldanha Bay, a harbour town situated on the south-western coast of South Africa, is already drawing investment interest.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, Alan Winde, the <a title=\"Western Cape\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz-sa.com\/ct\/\" target=\"_blank\">Western Cape<\/a>\u2019s Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, said the signing of several lease agreements and the upsurge of global oil and gas companies negotiating joint ventures with South African firms was an indication that the zone was off to a good start.<\/p>\n<h2>Saldanha Bay industrial zone attracting investment<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe Saldanha Bay IDZ Licencing Company has signed six lease agreements with international and South African oil and gas companies. These include firms specialising in oilfield services, oil rig operations, logistics operators, ship repair, engineering and market support,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some of the most exciting developments, the Licencing Company is in talks with an international consortium to develop a rig module building facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also aware of a R200 million investment by a global oil servicing company which is set to create 300 jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said several leading international companies were increasing their staff numbers in their South African companies.<\/p>\n<p>Winde said the Western Cape provincial government invested R25-million over a period of five years to create the zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the culmination of years of collaboration between all spheres of government and the Saldanha Bay community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IDZ has the potential to become one of the most important levers for jobs and economic growth for the Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly indications are that it will indeed be a major catalyst for foreign direct investment and increased employment opportunities for our residents in the medium to long term.\u201d \u2013 SANews.gov.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently launched Industrial Development Zone in Saldanha Bay, a harbour town situated on the south-western coast of South Africa, is already drawing investment interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27,475,1],"tags":[729,647],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ct","category-featured","category-investment","category-news","tag-investment","tag-saldanha-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}