Export promotion agency will organize a trip to the Emirates and Saudi for businessmen in February. Delegation will be led by minister Fernando Pimentel. Preparatory event will be held on the 19th.
Author: Isaura Daniel
Foreign minister Antonio Patriota has announced a series of measures to strengthen trade promotion at the ministry. Among them are participation in fairs abroad and training diplomats in the area.
Young secondary students attended a talk by the Arab Brazilian Chamber CEO, Michel Alaby, during the Mini UN meeting in Belo Horizonte, and asked about the outlook for Brazil-Arab relations.
Sales of Brazilian products to the Arab world grew to US$ 11 billion in the accumulated result this year up to September. Last month, individually, however, there was a drop.
The Federal University of Santa Maria is working on the transfer of technology for production of food in Algeria. The project is developed through the CNPq and also involves Mozambique.
The country almost tripled imports of liquefied natural gas from Qatar from January to August this year. However, the country did not buy from Nigeria.
The price of commodities, which dropped in September, should return to prior levels. Sugar had one of the highest drops and is among the products most sold by Brazil to the Arabs.
A group of university graduates established BR África aimed at developing agribusiness projects on the continent. It already has operations in the Congo and Angola.
Artists from Lebanon, Morocco and Kuwait will participate in the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil starting on Friday. They will present videos, installations and pictures.
The writer from Rio de Janeiro is one of the stars of the new crop of Brazilian authors, and will have one of his books, ‘The Enigma of Qaf’, translated into Arabic and published in Egypt.
Exports of the commodity reached US$ 121 million up to August. Shipments totalled 168,300 tonnes and the main buyer was Saudi Arabia.
Businessman Lourenço Chohfi was honoured by the organisations, which he presided, in São Paulo, on Wednesday, for the work he has done and the example he has given to the community.
The group is going to sell the logistics arm of Keystone Foods, a company it acquired last year, to the US-based Martin-Brower. The deal involves operations in the Middle East.
Campo Verde, based in Jarinu, São Paulo, does selection of the Dorper and White Dorper breeds and plans to enter the slaughtering industry in the future. Saudi importers have contacted the company.

