BOI Ensures Export Manufacturing Sector Keeps Ticking Despite Covid-19 Crisis

Several manufacturing firms providing gear and components for essential services function in EPZs. Discussions ongoing with stakeholders to explore solutions as safety of employees paramount

Commends relief measures introduced or being discussed for exportoriented manufacturers

Insists factories heed healthcare guidelines, notes process will otherwise be futile

The Board of Investment (BOI) yesterday said it was ensuring uninterrupted services utilising skeleton staff for export-oriented manufacturing companies, noting that some enterprises that cater to essential services were functioning with reduced staff.

“We are providing services required for zones to function with reduced staff right now, as manufacturing companies that are catering to essential services such as healthcare gear as well as a few apparel factories, for example those that are providing masks, are running with limited staff. The safety of these employees is paramount and companies have taken necessary steps to ensure safety of employees with the involvement of PHIs,” BOI Director General Sanjaya Mohottala told Daily FT.