On February 2, the City of Liepaja announced an auction for two real estates in Liepaja, the territory of the Karosta Industrial Park. The auction will be held electronically at https://izsoles.ta.gov.lv from February 2, 2024 at 13.00 until March 4, 2024 at 13.00 The deadline to apply for the auction has been set on February 22, 2024.

On January 19, the limited liability company “iCotton”, operating in the territory of the Liepaja Special Economic Zone started bond trading at the "Nasdaq Riga" - the only regulated secondary securities market in Latvia. The exchange provides companies with an efficient channel to raise capital and to facilitate the participation of institutional and private investors in primary offerings and secondary trading and brings together investors, listed companies seeking access to capital resources, and exchange members who mediate securities transactions for investors through a common electronic trading system. SIA "iCotton" is the first company from Liepaja to trade bonds on the "Nasdaq Riga" exchange.

Having succeed in attracting co-funding from the Central Finance and Contracts Agency, SIA "ICS Steel" company has built and commissioned a new metalwork production facility of 3200m2 in the territory of the Liepaja special economic zone. About 2.5 million euros were invested in the construction of the factory and a half million euros were invested in the production equipment and machinery. To ensure a full range of services, the owners plan to build two more production buildings in the coming years.

The Liepaja SEZ Board reviewed the documents submitted by Crimppi SIA company and the application for granting the Liepaja SEZ company status and approved it. Crimppi is Finland's leading manufacturer of installations and electronic components, which has decided to run their business in Liepaja, in the territory of LSEZ SIA VOBP Business Park already this spring.

The Liepaja SEZ Authority concluded an agreement with the Central Finance and Contracts Agency (CFCA) on financing of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism in the amount of 10 million EUR for the implementation of the project "Liepaja Industrial Park Infrastructure Development Round 1". As part of the project, it is planned to build electricity supply networks and three sections of streets with engineering communications (water supply, domestic sewerage, rainwater sewerage, heat supply networks) in the large area. This will allow partial opening of the formerly closed steel plant area for public access and create an opportunity to attract the first investors.

The Liepāja SEZ Authority has implemented the project "Remediation of the Historically Polluted Site at the Liepaja Port Karosta Canal" with the aim of reducing the negative impact of the historically polluted sediments of the Karosta Canal on the environment, human health, and the ecological state of the Baltic Sea. The project is financed within the framework of the Norwegian Financial Instrument 2014-2021 programme "Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and the Environment" and a total of 145,199 cubic meters of historically polluted sediments containing approximately 298 tons of hazardous chemicals were removed within the framework of the III round of the Karosta Canal rehabilitation project.