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MUNICIPALITY
SWOT ANALYSIS ECONOMY
SECTOR STRONG POINTS WEAK POINTS
• Medgidia has some areas with propitious conditions
for the development of industrial business:
- Medgidia East harbour area;
- Medgidia North industrial area.
• Diversified economic structure.
• Existence of an industrial tradition.
• Big spaces, properly equipped for storage and
preservation; available lands for sale at accessible
prices where industrial building or warehouse can be
built.·
• Availability of raw material in the area, for specific
activities: building material industry, extractive industry,
food industry.
• Predominance of the private property over the state
property.
• Existence of some strategic investors (LAFARGE),
which can induct the development of other vertical
economic activities.
• Qualified labour force for different fields of activity.
• Low level of local taxes.
• Obsolete economic structure, declining industry, old
equipment with a high rate of ware.
• The status of the industrial patrimony.
• Low efficiency of the economic operators from
industry.
• Loss of some important markets. · Low level of SME
development.
• Low development index for entire area (Category III).
• High fluctuation of the labour force between economic
branches.·
• Inappropriate management.·
• Lack of a mechanism for selective stimulation of
industrial activities and promotion of clean industries
that produce goods with high added value.·
• Acute lack of jobs; increasing trend in the
unemployment rate.
• Low development of services.
INDUSTRY
OPPORTUNITIES
• The short distance to the harbour facilitates the
transport on the Black Sea - Danube - Rhine - Main
channel.
• Medgidia is only 35km far from Mihail Kogalniceanu
Airport.
• Construction of Bucuresti-Constanta highway.
• Establishment of the industrial park.
• Possibility to use the instrument of public debt
(borrowings and municipal bonds) as attracted sources
from the local budget.
• Possibility to access sources of the local budget
(projects, governmental sources, private sources,
special taxes).
• Stabilization of the national economy.
• Improvement of the legislation in the labour domain.
• Simplification of the legal and administrative
procedures in order to encourage investors.
• Establishment of public-private partnerships to benefit
industrial development.
THREATS
• Lack of resources to finance major investments.
• Legislative instability in the economic field.
• Insufficient budgetary resources necessary for
supporting the industrial development.
• Regional competition regarding the direct investments.
• Increase in economic deficits.
• International political instability.
• Conflict of interests between the economic centres
within Constanta County.