The companies of clusters competitiveness, such as shoes and fashion, cars, petrochemicals or the sea, will receive EUR 89.5 million to support training under Portugal 2030, a measure different from the recently presented Qualifica Indústria, and which is not will depend on invoicing decreases, the State Secretary for Economic Affairs announced. Pedro Cilínio pledged another 60 million euros in new international promotional lines, which will open in the first quarter of 2024. As for this year’s debt relief, he promised that payments would be made “in the coming weeks.”
Pedro Cilínio spoke to journalists on the sidelines of the visit to the 36 shoe exhibitors present at Micam in Milan, assuring that the measure aims to prevent layoffs, but also to help companies maintain their competitiveness and production capacity. At the end of October, he promised, the first competitions will start, for individual and joint projects, with a support amount of 20 million euros.
Source: DN
