Fujairah, April 7: The Fujairah Municipality has given ultimatum to the owners of industrial workshops, factories, stores and scrap shops in the old industrial area near the Fujairah International Airport to relocate to the new industrial area in Al Hail neighbourhood within two months.
The civic body has asked the electricity and water authority in the emirate to disconnect the power supply to those who do not keep up to the ultimatum. The licences of the establishments will not be renewed unless they enclose the map of those on the new location along with the application. The action was taken following three years of standoff between the owners of the workshops and the municipality, which ordered them to relocate to the new site. The municipality, however had not taken action over the last three years as the there was no power supply in the new area. The ultimatum from the municipality comes after electricity has been extended to the area.
The municipality issued orders regarding the shifting of establishments three years ago. However, majority of the establishments continued to function on their old premises and only 30 per cent of them moved to the new location.
“More than 1,600 establishments are licensed to operate in the industrial area and we are looking forward to complete their relocation with a view of re-planning and utilising the old industrial area, which is inside the city,” Mohammed Saif Al Afkham, Director of the Fujairah Municipality, explained. The municipality, according to him, has planned and arranged Al Hail as the new industrial area according to the latest standards, and infrastructure has nearly been completed to serve and provide the services to all the relocated establishments.
Power connections have been given to all the new factories and workshops in response to the demands of the shop owners who took the excuse of lack of power supply and services in the new area to stick on to their old premises. The new industrial area spreads over a total area of 13 square kilometres and can house about 150 big-size stores, 50 building material factories, 120 transport companies, 200 garages of different size as well as scrap stores, car wash centres, auto spare part shops and small-size carpentry shops, he said.
The municipality is planning to set up of a full-fledged labour accommodation area in the near future. It will be built over an estimated area of 316.368 hectares, housing about 53,000 workers, he said, adding that all necessary facilities including health, entertainment and others will be made available.
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