The Brest Free Economic Zone has been established in 1996 for a period of 50 years. It consists of two separate areas and 5 industrial estates within the precincts of the city. Total area is 7231 hectares.

The most important trans-European transport corridor Madrid-Paris-Berlin-Warsaw-Brest-Minsk-Moscow passes through Brest thereby creating a new situation for investment climate change both in the region and in Belarus as a whole.

In the vicinity of Brest there have been opened many border checkpoints. Due to a dense network of good-quality roads this regional capital has gathered into a cluster mane small towns and locality at the Belorussian side and about 100 thousand inhabitants at the Polish side to form an agglomeration of 500 thousand people.

Brest as a center of transit communications has a system of changing from broad to narrow European gauge for trains.

In this region in the FEZ area there is an all-weather international airport of Category 1, a cargo checkpoint, and a waterway connecting the Brest river port via Dnepr-Bug channel with the Black Sea.

As is evident from the analysis of performance of the Brest FEZ enterprises, the volume of products (works, services) in comparable prices, the number of employed, and export shipments increase by a factor of 1.3 to 1.5 annually.
Of 100 residents registered here the larges portion has foreign investments. Total investments amount to USD 300 million. Investors from 19 countries have been operating here. Among them are Germany, Belarus, Poland, and Russia.

The FEZ enterprises employ about 14 thousand people. The cost of services and products provided for a year approaches to USD 430 million which is comparable to the summary output of all enterprises in Brest. Annual export shipments from FEZ currently exceed USD 270 million.

FEZ would welcome investments for establishing high-tech enterprises primarily and for pharmaceutical, automobile, electronic and machine-building industries.

Leading Enterprises

• JV Black and White LLC (Belarus, Poland, Russia)
  Production of furniture. Investment: USD 6.5 million. V Number of employed: 477.
  
• UPE ST&M (Belarus)
  Development and production of road-line machinery and compositions. Investment: USD 4.1 million. Volume of output: USD14.7 million
  
• UE Gefest-Technique (Belarus)
  Production of household fuel-using equipment and kitchen air cleaners. Investment: USD19.4 million. Volume of output: USD23.2 million with 62% export shipment of the total volume of sales. Number of employed: 549.
  
• JV Santa Bremor LLC (Belarus, Germany)
  Fish processing. Investment: USD50 million. Volume of output: USD133 million . Number of employed: 2800.
  
• CJSC Involux (Czech, Latvia)
  Production of office furniture. Investment: USD15 million. Volume of output: USD 17 million .Export shipment: 85% of the total volume of sales. Number of employed: 460.