Sri Lankan Construction Industrialists invited to Maldives Construction Fair 2009

Maldivies Construction Fair 2009 (MCF 2009) is scheduled to be held in Male, Maldives from 20th to 22nd April 2009 and press conference was held at Hotel Taj Samudra by the Maldives Association of Construction Industry to invite Sri Lankan Construction Industrialists to participate at this Fair.

It was indicated that last year 80 percent of the participants at MCF 2008 were Sri Lankan Construction Industrialists. But this year already various other countries also have booked their places at the MCF 2009 and Sri Lankan Industrialists would thus cover only about 60 percent

At the press briefing Mohamed Ali Janah, President, Maldives Associatin of Construction Industry said that in the Maldives the 30 years of one-man show of the Government is now over and the country now heads towards an era of the people and the private sector as even the Airports and the Ports in Maldives are be privatized.

He said that Maldives is a country that imports everything, even, sand is imported and now as the entire gamut of industry such as construction industry is widely open to the private sector their country has opened the opportunities for other countries to engage in industries in an equal, transparent and competitive manner.

The country’s main industry is the tourist industry and the private sector is now invited to participate in constructing more than 64 tourist resorts which would be US $ 30 to 40 million investments. There are plans to build 10 more airports and several ports. Thus there would be a tremendous amount of construction work in the Maldives.

This exhibition is held for the 4th consecutive year. There would be opportunities for interior design, architecture, building construction and engineering and the exhibition provides a common arena for the business community to exhibit their services and products.

Imran Hassan, Director, South Asia Exhibition Services who are part of the organizers of the Exhibition said that the choice of holding a construction fair in the Maldives continues to be the best choice as the Maldives was chosen as the "Indian Ocean’s Leading Destination’ at the World Travel Awards 2008.

Last year about 80 percent of the participants for the exhibition was from Sri Lanka. Mr Hassan told that this year as the competition is very high with the development activities in the Maldives, the Sri Lankan participation would come down to around 60 percent as other international construction industrialists have already booked in their places.

Source: asiantribune.com