A business delegation of the Turkish province of Kocaeli had a meeting with a group of entrepreneurs from the Herzegovina region in Mostar, and collaboration has been agreed in several areas.

The purpose of their visit was to explore investment opportunities in the Mostar region, and beef up existing business relations. Kocaeli is one of the economically strongest provinces of Turkey, and about 20 representatives of its business community are interested in collaboration in all segments of the economy, they said.

Some thirty projects will be presented to them, a professor of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering said.

Kocaeli’s GDP is three times the Turkish average, and the region is home to more than 1,600 industrial plants giving employment to almost 171,000 people. It is also where a number of domestic and international companies operating in Turkey are headquartered.