Qatar Chamber to continue private sector growth, support: Sheikh Khalifa

Qatar Chamber to continue private sector growth, support: Sheikh Khalifa

Qatar Chamber maintained last year its efforts to support and develop the private sector in the country and encourage investments and facilitate its growth, chairman Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim al-Thani said during the chamber’s general assembly meeting held on Wednesday.

He said the chamber also continued its role as the voice of the business community in the country, its mandate to support and safeguard the interests of private sector institutions and companies, and helped lessen the impact of Covid-19 on the private sector.

The meeting’s agenda included the approval of the estimated budget for the fiscal year 2022 and appointing a new auditor for the 2022 financial year. During the meeting, Sheikh Khalifa reviewed the board of directors’ report and stated the chamber’s achievements and activities last year.

On technical development and digitisation, Sheikh Khalifa said the chamber strengthened its digital structure in 2021 and worked to add further development to the services provided to the business community to facilitate members and affiliated companies and institutions, and provided all possible means to communicate with them and complete their transactions with ease and professionalism.

Sheikh Khalifa noted that the chamber completed more than 56,000 electronic transactions, issued about 42,000 certificates of origin for