FIPA was guest of the Mayor of Bihać

A delegation of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA) led by the Director Gordan Milinić visited Bihać where they met with the Mayor Šuhret Fazlić and the city administration representatives. 

The Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH aims to facilitate the inflow of foreign investments in BiH, through cooperation with government institutions and investors, and to assist investors to establish contacts with the public and private sectors.

The Director Milinić stressed the importance of more intensive cooperation of FIPA and the city of Bihać in order to adequately make investors familiarized with all investment potentials of Bihać, through prepared projects and investment locations.

The Mayor Fazlić said that with an attractive geostrategic location, good infrastructure connections, a long tradition in various manufacturing industries with particular emphasis on the wood processing industry, tourism and agriculture, the city of Bihać can be an ideal location for foreign investors. Bihać especially needs investors to build hotels and accommodation capacities to follow the trend of constant increase in the number of tourists. Last year, 60,000 tourists visited national park Una.

As a very attractive projects for foreign investors are evaluated: the project of building a regional business and tourism airport Golubić and construction of a spa centre Gata. The City of Bihać will provide maximum support to foreign investors and has already started testing model of One-Stop-Shop, so that an investor has all necessary documentation with a maximum of two coming to the city’s administration.

The FIPA Director visited the industrial complex (former Bira-Gorenje), which covers an area of ​​70,000 m2 with a total of 40,000 m2 of industrial halls with complete infrastructure and industrial track. Within this zone, there is modern equipment for the production of refrigeration appliances, paint shop, plastic moulding machines and machines for the production of Styrofoam. Considering that there were employed 500 workers, it is necessary to find a strategic partner to restart production.