AMPIP signs collaboration agreement in free trade zones

The industrial parks have one more ally of international stature. The Mexican Association of Industrial Parks (Ampi) recently signed a collaboration agreement in Dubai with the World Free Zone Organization (WFZO) to boost its business towards more competitive levels. “Basically it is for the exchange of information, for mutual participation in events and to learn about practical cases. For Ampip it is always important to generate networks, use them, rely on them, because things happen faster when you rely on other instances than when you intend to do it alone”, Claudia Ávila, General Director of the business organization, said in an interview. Logistics executives expect growth in emerging markets to pick up, despite concerns about a further slowdown in China, fluctuations in oil prices and the possibility that the US economy could weaken.

Growth forecasts for most emerging market and developing economies point to a slower pick-up, with growth expected to pick up in 2015 to 4.31QT1 and 4.71QT1 in 2016 and 2017, respectively, according to International Monetary Fund projections. Along with this agreement, Ampip plans to carry out a feasibility study for the development of Special Economic Zones (ZEE), based on the decree that was recently promulgated in Mexico by the Federal Government, and which initially aims to Develop three of them. One will be found in the inter-oceanic corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec that will benefit the states of Veracruz and Oaxaca, another in the port of Chiapas and another in the adjoining strip between the states of Guerrero and Michoacán, all of them in support of the economic growth of the South. Southeast Mexico, the most backward areas of the country. “(In the study) cases in other countries such as the United States, China and Colombia would be analyzed, to have more elements because on the one hand we consider that it is a sound public policy in the sense of being able to generate the conditions so that eventually in these states, which are the least developed in the country, may have the opportunity to grow. “But, on the other hand, it is also not easy because the business of the industrial park involves significant capital investments, they are also high-risk investments, so you cannot speculate anywhere and there must be certainty in advance regarding potential demand. Avila said. This study would be an alternative to the one currently being carried out by Banobras and the World Bank, focused on the SEZs in Mexico.