77 new factories open in Cambodia in Q1 amid pandemic

25 Apr '20

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Seventy seven new factories, including 34 belonging to the garment, footwear and travel goods sectors, opened in Cambodia in the first quarter of this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, employing 27,909 people, the government recently claimed. Some factories, however, have witnessed a drop in purchase orders now, but will recover after the crisis, it said.

For Cambodia, most of the garment, footwear and travel goods factories still operate as usual because China has constantly supplied raw material despite the pandemic, Heng Sokkung, a secretary of state and spokesman for the ministry of industry, science, technology and innovation, was quoted as saying by a news agency.

According to him, six factories had permanently shut down during the January-March period this year, affecting 6,052 workers.

The garment, footwear, and travel goods industry in the country comprises around 1,100 factories employing 750,000.

A report from the ministry showed that the export of garment, footwear, and travel goods was valued at $9.32 billion in 2019, accounting for over 83 per cent of the country's total industrial product exports.

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