MANAMA: Dubai Airport Freezone Authority (DAFZA) has signed a strategic co-operation agreement with Export Bahrain.
The signing establishes frameworks for bilateral technical collaboration to support their joint efforts in institutional development, facilitating business activities, supporting companies and their plans for growth and expansion and exchanging information and expertise.
The cooperation agreement was signed by DAFZA assistant director general Amna Lootah and Export Bahrain acting chief executive Safa Abdulkhaliq.
The agreement seeks to encourage the two countries’ companies to expand and develop joint trade relations, in addition to enhancing bilateral cooperation in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship, exchanging expertise and best practices, and facilitating access to technologies, markets and business networks.
The agreement grants Export Bahrain access to the global companies that set up headquarters in Dubai Airport Freezone in order to support Bahraini exporters according to a framework established by the agreement.
It will grant DAFZA access to the companies supported by Export Bahrain in order to work towards improving the companies’ relations with their counterparts in DAFZA and exchange information, services, and offers.
In addition, the two sides will cooperate to organise activities, workshops, seminars, and conferences to support establishing relations between companies, in addition to cooperating in research and development and other relevant fields.