Investment in the country’s eight Export Processing Zones (EPZ) has increased by 12.17 per cent while export jumped by 11.72 per cent in the first six months of 2014-15 fiscal year compare to the same period of the previous fiscal year. Some US$ 213.39 million actual investment has been added during July-December period of the current fiscal year by the 437 operational and 123 under implementation enterprises of eight EPZs, says a press release. This figure was $ 190.23 million during the same period of 2013-14 FY. Among the total investment, $ 72.99 million has been made in Chittagong EPZ followed by Dhaka EPZ $ 48.80 million, Karnaphuli EPZ $ 30.69 million, Adamjee EPZ $ 32.17 million, Comilla EPZ $ 10.17 million, Uttara EPZ $ 10.71 million, Ishwardi EPZ $ 4.46 million and Mongla EPZ $ 3.42 million. The cumulative investment stands at $ 3401.46 million up to December 2014. Meanwhile, goods worth $ 2902.68 million have been exported by the operational industries of EPZs under BEPZA in the first half of the fiscal year 2014-15. It was $2598.56 million during the same period of the previous FY, which shows an increase of 11.72 per cent.
In the first half of the current fiscal year the enterprises of Chittagong EPZ has exported goods worth of $ 1191.48 million, Dhaka EPZ $ 928.68 million, Karnaphuli EPZ $ 309.44 million, Adamjee EPZ $ 219.30 million, Comilla EPZ $ 125.52 million, Mongla EPZ $ 44.29 million, Ishwardi EPZ $ 51.79 million and Uttara EPZ $ 32.22 million.
