The President of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sameer Nass, stressed the continuation of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry to the initiatives that aims to reduce the economic effects and repercussions of the Corona pandemic, and its support for all national efforts to tackle the virus.
Nass revealed the Chamber’s contribution in the amount of 300,000 dinars within the campaign launched by the Royal Foundation for Humanitarian Action under the title “We have goodness,” as well as exempting its members from the fees of paying the Chamber’s annual contributions for a full year, with a total amount of 1.2 million dinars, noting that this comes within the series of initiatives launched by the Chamber to contribute to supporting the economic situation and to support the state's efforts in facing the repercussions of this virus, with a total of 1.5 million dinars.
He also pointed out that the Chamber had sensed the existence of economic repercussions of the Corona pandemic since last February, and initiated the presentation of visions and perceptions to meet these repercussions to mitigate its economic effects on the national economy and on small and medium enterprises in particular, stressing that the Chamber did not stand idly by but rather had Lines of communication with economic decision-makers at the highest levels, and it followed the conditions of all economic sectors, including, for example, not limited to, the flow of commercial traffic in all ports of the Kingdom by land, sea and air, and also communicated with all commercial complexes and demanded facilities for shop owners, which is in the process of preparing economic visions for the post-crisis phase and will be announced in due course.
He expressed the Chamber's pride and appreciation for the directives of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the country’s king, to uniting national efforts to face the repercussions of the global spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) at the local level in order to preserve the health and safety of citizens and residents in parallel with the continuation of the state’s programs and its work path to achieve sustainable development endeavors.
Source (Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Edited)
