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Support for Investors
Our wish is to create the most favorable environment for development of industrial activities in every development stage of a company. Therefore, we build long-term relationships with manufacturers and look for mutually attractive conditions for cooperation. The industrial zone is equipped with a high-quality infrastructure, and thanks to the Freeport of Ventspils, industrial buildings are available for different companies. Therefore, the companies are able to launch their production faster and with a smaller initial capital.
Contact Person Designated by the Municipality – Project Coordinator
The city supports all types of industrial/processing activities and forms an environment particularly favorable for investment. For faster solution of practical issues a special project coordinator is designated by the Freeport for each investment project. The coordinator provides all the required information for the newly established companies.
Planning of Urban Infrastructure – Adapted for Manufacturers
The industrial zone of the Freeport of Ventspils has basic infrastructure – a road network and utilities that reach the boundaries of company lots. The industrial zone and the whole city are equipped with powerful high-quality utilities that can be adjusted to the ideas of manufacturers.
Support for Business Start-Ups – Business Incubation
Anyone who starts production in Ventspils receives maximum support from the municipality. The support instruments in the start-up period are various – from suitable premises and specialist consultations to the development of a large-scale infrastructure. The long-term municipal aid is attributed to both large already existing and start-up businesses.
Ventspils can be proud of business incubation facilities, as well as the active cooperation between the city, manufacturers and the academic sector. The Business Incubator of the Ventspils High Technology Park (VHTP) is a supporter for business start-ups. In the start-up phase VHTP Business Incubator offers companies to rent modern office facilities under preferential conditions as well as to get any kind of business consultation for the business plan development, export launch and international marketing, and other business issues. Nearly 60 emerging companies of different industries are operating in the VHTP Business Incubator.
Ventspils – the Center of Intelligent Technologies
Ventspils has all the conditions for ICT, including the ones necessary for the development of powerful data centers. A modern communication infrastructure provides opportunities to store and process large volumes of data that require the power of high-speed connections.
The municipality and the Freeport of Ventspils in cooperation with several companies has developed a Development Strategy and Action Plan for the Information and Communication Technology Field from 2014 to 2020 in order to promote a particularly favorable environment for the development and operation of ICT companies.
Already now the concentration of ICT in Ventspils has increased significantly and the development continues. The increasing number of local and internationally recognized businesses serves as evidence.
The first step for you to start the implementation of your investment idea is to get in touch with us! [email protected]
Businesses currently in Freeport of Ventspils
Managing Plant Manager of Bucher Municipal Mikus Brakanskis:
– Investing and creating a factory in Ventspils has been and is still a success story for Bucher Municipal. We have implemented multiple expansion projects together with the city administration and freeport within a span of two decades. Teamwork and good collaboration between all three parties have helped us to achieve success. Our journey from a company with few employees to one of the biggest employers in the region would not have been possible without the people who have shaped this story. A story that holds great significance for the whole Bucher Municipal Division. By continuing our development and investing in our site and employees, we will keep producing high-quality compact sweepers in this small city and deliver them to the rest of the world to make it as clean as Ventspils.
The innovative and flexible offer of the Ventspils Freeport Authority stood out among those made by the freeport authorities in other cities. This allowed to reduce the company's risk at the beginning of its operation by renting buildings and land from the Ventspils Freeport Authority, rather than investing in the company's equity capital. The rapid pace of development and growth ambitions led to the decision to relocate the production facility, which was successfully resolved by the City Council and the Freeport Authority of Ventspils. They responded swiftly and professionally to our request for the acquisition of land and buildings. Behind these global challenges lies a number of everyday issues we have effectively solved together over the years, so that we, as a company, city, and employees, have a more comfortable daily life, and can achieve better results.
Member of the Board of Froli Baltic Margret Fromme.
– Margret Fromme on the city of Ventspils: “We know the city of Ventspils now since over 18 years. For us and the team of Froli the city is like a pearl by the sea. The people are open-minded, tolerant, interested and friendly. It always impresses us how the city is investing in new social, cultural and economic sites and organizations. Every time we come here, we feel the positive energy and it’s like we’re visiting friends.”
And on the Froli Baltic team: “What is commendable is not only the level of education of the local workers, but also the fact that every one of them is ready to receive educational training, to learn, to acquire new skills and, most importantly – let themselves be taught. Some of the skills have to be learnt on the spot - production and processes change, therefore the workers need new skills and competences. The training in collaboration with the German colleagues is taking place both here and in Germany. We are very proud of the team and pleased with how honestly and thoroughly they are doing their jobs.”