SCOTLAND’S green freeports have been hailed as the country’s “biggest industrial development in a generation”...
SCOTLAND’S green freeports have been hailed as the country’s “biggest industrial development in a generation”.
Both of Scotland’s two winning bids in January last year – Inverness and Cromarty Firth as well as Forth – aren’t officially green freeports until the final business case is approved by the Scottish and UK Governments, upon which a total of £52 million of seed funding will be released. The UK Government said the scheme “shows what can be achieved when Scotland’s two governments work together” – claiming it will regenerate the two areas and attract up to an estimated £10 billion in investment and 75,000 new, high-skilled jobs.
“Once our business case has been approved, and the Green Freeport is effectively live, we look forward to engaging with local communities,” they said. "The Green Freeport at Inverness and Cromarty Firth, in particular, stands to make a real difference to the decline in the working age population seen in the Highlands in recent years.”
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