Industrial estates and other zones (excluding SEZs)

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Description: "This compendium focuses on recent articles related to the development of industrial estates in the major urban centres of Myanmar. Although the clustering of traditional craft industries was common in towns and cities throughout Burma in the colonial era, it was not until the 1950s that modern industrial complexes such as those in the Pyay district of central Burma and in several parts of Rangoon began to take shape. The displacement of urban core residents and small enterprises that took place in the late fifties also led to the development of industrial sites in satellite towns on the east side of the capital. But it was only in the 1990s, following the opening to privately owned industries by Burma?s military government, that the push to develop industrial zones throughout the country began in earnest. Today there are more than fifty industrial parks scattered throughout the country, about half of them in the area around the national capital. Some, like the new complexes at Indagaw near Bago and the two near Kyaukse in Upper Myanmar are exclusively reserved for state-owned factories. Others are being developed with foreign capital for foreign-owned enterprises or foreign companies that have entered into joint-venture agreements with holding companies of the military government. Most of the new industrial estates are being developed by the Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development of the Ministry of Construction specifically for privately owned industries. Over 6,000 of the 50,000 privately owned manufacturing enterprises in the country are now accommodated in these zones. Recently, several privately owned land development companies have begun their own industrial parks in the Yangon area in collaboration with the DHSHD. The articles in the compendium are arranged in chronological order with the most recently published at the top of the list. The articles have been selected on the basis that they are representative of initiatives and challenges faced in the rapidly developing industrial zones of Myanmar. Internet search engines such as Google will yield many more references on any one of the many zones named here. Researchers should bear in mind that place names in Myanmar are frequently spelled in a variety of ways in English. Thus, the use of different spellings as search words may result in a considerable increase in the amount of information generated."
Source/publisher: Courier Information Services
Date of entry/update: 2005-04-17
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Sub-title: Exclusive: The location for Myanmar's first deep-sea port will be decided next year, according to a senior government official.
Description: ""Construction of a Yangon deep-sea port is one of the projects included as second priority in the National Transport Master Plan. Work is being made and the location can be finally selected and approved within 2020," U Aung Ye Tun, assistant secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, told The Myanmar Times. Asked about the cost and project details, he said an analysis would be conducted before construction work begins. "Only after the analysis is completed, approval will be made regarding the implementation method, that is, whether it is done by a public-private partnership model or by a loan." In addition, the government will establish six inland ports in Bhamo (Bamaw), Upper Myanmar in Mandalay, Pakokku and Magway, and Monywa on Chindwin River, the official said. "Our priority is in Mandalay and we will start construction in this coming October. The port [in Mandalay] will finish [construction] in March 2021. We intend to construct the remaining ports in the near future." Businesses welcomed U Aung Ye Tun's intervention. "U Aung Ye Tun has made a very helpful clarification on an issue which the industry is watching closely. A deep-sea port will be important for Myanmar's trade growth in the long term because existing capacity won't be able to cope. Larger vessel also lowers the ocean logistics cost," an industrialist, who asked not to be named, commented. "The government is right to start planning this early on. The location will be a key factor in determining the logistics cost deriving from the land transport connecting the port. It is also equally important that the government pays attention to more pressing problems as well, such as improving the customs process," he added. During an industry discussion in Nay Pyi Taw last month, U Aung Ye Tun listed some criteria for the facility, including water depth, transport infrastructure and connectivity to industrial zones..."
Source/publisher: Myanmar Water Portal via "Myanmar Times"
2019-07-25
Date of entry/update: 2019-07-25
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Description: ''Ning Jizhe, vice chair of China’s top planning agency National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), visited Myanmar from November 24 to 27. The visit is built on the consensus reached by State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and China’s leader Xi Jinping at the end of 2017, with regards to the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC). Mr. Ning visited the sites of CITIC Group, China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC), China Railway Group Limited (CRG) and Yunnan Provincial Energy Investment Group Co., Ltd. (YEIG). CITIC leads a consortium which was chosen by the government as the developer of a proposed deep-sea port in Kyaukphyu, central Rakhine. CCCC, a China state-owned company and was sanctioned by the World Bank for its fraud and corruption practices from January 2009 until January 2017, signed an agreement with a regional body to prepare a detailed infrastructure proposal for an ambitious new Yangon city project...''
Source/publisher: Myanmar Times
2018-11-30
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-23
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: ''Ning Jizhe, vice chair of China’s top planning agency National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), visited Myanmar from November 24 to 27. The visit is built on the consensus reached by State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and China’s leader Xi Jinping at the end of 2017, with regards to the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC). Mr. Ning visited the sites of CITIC Group, China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC), China Railway Group Limited (CRG) and Yunnan Provincial Energy Investment Group Co., Ltd. (YEIG). CITIC leads a consortium which was chosen by the government as the developer of a proposed deep-sea port in Kyaukphyu, central Rakhine. CCCC, a China state-owned company and was sanctioned by the World Bank for its fraud and corruption practices from January 2009 until January 2017, signed an agreement with a regional body to prepare a detailed infrastructure proposal for an ambitious new Yangon city project...''
Source/publisher: Myanmar Times
2018-11-30
Date of entry/update: 2019-01-23
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Language: English
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Description: "...Sources say the industrial zones are creating another headache: forced relocations of villagers. The source says that farmers have been forced to give up their prized land in Mingaladon north of Rangoon to make way for Mitsui?s industrial park. "There is no negotiation between the farmers and the government. The govenrment simply puts up a sign saying, ?Everybody must move by this date.? Everybody must obey it or else. Villages are silently angry but they don?t dare protest." Adds another local resident, explaining the public mentality about reallocations, "We have to obey the king. When the king says move, we have to move."..."
Creator/author: B.J. Lee
Source/publisher: "The Nation"
1997-01-17
Date of entry/update: 2007-01-25
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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