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Sixteen Foreign Investors to Come to Slovakia
Monday 22 February 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, February 22 (TASR) - Some 16 new foreign investors should come to Slovakia and invest over €300 million, Dany Rottiers, general director of Eastern Invest Center (EIC), which specialises in providing consultancy services to foreign investors, told TASR on Monday.
"There are three companies willing to invest in the vicinity of Nitra, one investor in Zilina, and 12 companies with their sights set on Kosice," said Rottiers. Most of the companies concerned come from Belgium, Great Britain, Australia and the United States.
The investors have been influenced in their decisions by the prospect of new highway between Bratislava-Kosice, set to be built by 2013. "Of course, there's also a need to build a broad-gauge railway track across Slovakia, as such a track would reduce the companies' transport costs by 30 percent when compared to river transport. Hence, the whole process of shipping would become twice as fast," said Rottiers.
According to a preliminary analysis, the total costs of building a broad-gauge railway track in Slovakia between 2010-17 will come to somewhere in the neighbourhood of €4.06 billion.
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