El Salvador Gets Mounting Foreign Investors and Employment Opportunities

2010-06-14

The Central Bank of El Salvador pointed out that during the period starting from June 2009 till March 2010, direct investment by foreign investors into El Salvador came to US$400 million, including US$97.6 million investment via the introduction efforts by El Salvadorian Investment Promotion Bureau, accounting for 25% of the total foreign investment into that country. Mariano Olazábal, Director of El Salvadorian Investment Promotion Bureau emphasized that in 2010, El Salvador got the first aeronautic logistic maintenance & repair firm Aeroman investing in the country. That investment would help El Salvadorian aeronautic industry upgrade the aeronautic maintenance & repair technology & know-how to make El Salvador become the Air Transportation Center in Central America. He stressed that in the future, El Salvador heartily welcomes foreign investment in infrastructures, logistics, aeronautic logistics and electronic industry.