The opening of the common border between Colombia and Venezuela has begun to generate benefits for the neighboring country's trade sectors. One of them is the footwear industry. This is reported by digital media such as Blu Radio. The station reported that it will need to hire more than 2,000 workers at shoe factories in Bucaramanga, Colombia. [Se reactiva industria de calzado en Colombia- Venezuela News]
The hiring of this large number of employees is necessary to meet the demand for orders from Venezuela. The recovery of the footwear industry in the department of Santander is well known. It even exceeds the levels it was at in 2015, when the border between Colombia and Venezuela was closed.
A well-known footwear businessman, Germán Oviedo, told Blu Radio that all buyers who went abroad to buy footwear turned once again to buying shoes made in Bucaramanga and Santander.
It was also known that the trade agreements that the footwear sector has signed with countries such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica and some European countries, are of the order of 610 thousand dollars.
The entrepreneur expressed his positive expectations in view of the proximity of the event called shoe tour. It will take place on 21, 22 and 23 February in Bucaramanga. " ... It's a wholesale opportunity that will benefit the industry," he said.
Aviedo specified that there are "... hundreds of empty seats waiting with their machinery ready, to start producing footwear for women, children and men." It specifies that jobs are available in the metropolitan area of Bucaramanca , in the footwear district located in the Barrio San Francisco .
