The Company The Concessionary
The FTZ - Port Area - was inaugurated May 11, 2001. The concession is under "Comodoro Rivadavia Free Trade Zone Administration", a local capital firm that will develop the business to achieve the best environment for production and export activities from the Patagonia to the world. The president of the company, Eng. Santos Crozzolli, is convinced that "the regimen is an strategic tool for the Patagonia, that will create an important change, generating new investments and projects for the local economy". The fact of being the first one in the region, that has the privilege of three different areas of development: port, industrial park and airport, plus the importance of being the Atlantic basin and gateway that connects with the Pacific ocean, offers the ideal conditions to achieve our objectives.
Eng. Crozzolli emphasizes: "the importance of being the Atlantic gateway to link both countries (Argentina and Chile), will improve cost and develop a logistic synergy for import and export products". The oil and gas industry, the fishing, the productions of wool and cattle raiser and the development of the eolic energy are the main business of this region that offers excellent opportunities for the export projects. For this reason Crozzolli´s goal is "to articulate regional efforts behind a model of development that offer to the Patagonian economy the access to international markets". The FTZ complies with the function of creating a competitive complex that allows: cost reduction, product innovation, market expansion, standard and expenditure procedures: that will be the development of a new regional economy.

	The Company The Concessionary and The Security Committee.
	There are different activities involve on a FTZ. These are the responsibles for each one: The Concessionary: responsible for the administration, development and promotional activities.
	The Customs: main authority, their functions are to control and verify the in and out of the merchandise.
	The Security Committee: represents the Argentine's government and is responsible for the auditing of the concession. The Customers: they operate importing and exporting merchandise in order to take advantage of the benefits available. They are controlled by the Concessionary.

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