The company head office in Germany is going to build an industrial unit in the emirates. This unit will be fully supplied with semi-disassembled vehicles produced in the city of Resende, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. The contract was signed by the Volkswagen world president, Bernd Pischetsrieder, and by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The estimated investment is 40 million euros (US$ 53.6 million).
Author: Mark Ament
Among other actions, the Brazilian Electrical and Electronics Industry Association (Abinee) is going to participate in a fair in Amman. Between January and October, sector exports to the region reached US$ 34.5 million and imports US$ 36.7 million. The industry also plans to participate in the reconstruction of Iraq.
Up to the end of the year, the company is going to have shipped 17,000 trucks and buses to over 40 countries, against 9,525 in 2003. With the increase in foreign sales and the improvement of the domestic market, the company should end 2004 with revenues of approximately US$ 2.9 billion, against US$ 2.1 billion in 2003, in current figures, and production of 49,000 units, the greatest production in 24 years.
Projects from both countries were chosen by International Energy Globe Award, an Austrian organization that works in environmental conservation. Brazil won in the "Earth" category, with a project that provides ecological and healthy housing to the poor, using ground tyre rubber, developed by the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. The Emirates won the prize in the "Youth" category, with program "The Nature Bus", which organizes excursions for youngsters with acti
Projects from both countries were chosen by International Energy Globe Award, an Austrian organization that works in environmental conservation. Brazil won in the "Earth" category, with a project that provides ecological and healthy housing to the poor, using ground tyre rubber, developed by the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. The Emirates won the prize in the "Youth" category, with program "The Nature Bus", which organizes excursions for youngsters with acti
The figure forecasted for the year is 42% grater than that registered in 2003. The Agriculture Ministry estimates also show a 23% increase in the shipping of cattle, pork and chicken meat. Last year, Brazil sold 3.43 million tonnes on the foreign market. This year a total of 4.2 million tonnes should be traded. Algeria and Egypt are among the countries that presented the greatest growth as destinations for exports of raw cattle beef.
According to information supplied by the company, the tender for exploration of oil or gas will take place up to the end of 2005. Still in the Arab world, authorities in Iraq showed interest in returning to business with the Brazilian state-owned oil company, interrupted 25 years ago.
According to João Carlos Basílio da Silva, president of the sector association, foreign trade should generate revenues of US$ 330 million up to the end of the year. Total sector revenues may reach around US$ 4.7 billion, or 17.3% more than in 2003. Among the new markets is the United Arab Emirates.
The funds will be invested in the construction of 4,000 kilometres of pipelines in the next two years, connecting the city of Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil to Porto Alegre, in the south, and Campinas, in the southeast, as well as connecting Campinas with the Brazil-Bolivia pipeline and the Argentine system. According to Ildo Sauer, the gas director at the state-owned company, participation of natural gas in the Brazilian energy matrix is going to rise from the current 7.5% to 12% in 2010.
In the first ten months of the year, the Port of Santos, the largest port in Brazil, located in the southeastern state of São Paulo, had a throughput of 57.5 million tonnes, a growth of 15.3% when compared to the same period in 2003. In the case of Paranaguá port, in the southern state of Paraná, throughput was 30 million tonnes. In the northeastern state of Pernambuco, cargo loaded and offloaded rose 12%. Throughput totalled 4.832 million tonnes in the ports of Suape and Recife, against 4.314 m
Galileia is one of the various examples, in Brazil, of small businesses that opened the doors to foreign trade. So as to answer to the demand, the company has doubled production in three years. Nowadays, 50% of all that the factory produces is destined to the foreign market.
The construction of four hydroelectric dams along the Madeira River, in the north of Brazil, will create a 4,200-kilometre waterway network between the country and Bolivia. In five years, this could make it possible for produce from the state of Rondônia, also in the north, to reach Peru, a country in western South America, bathed by the Pacific Ocean. Access may also be by land, due to a contract for the construction of a highway, signed by presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of Brazil, and A
The increase was registered between January and October. When taking into consideration the last 12 months, the Brazilian industrial production has grown 7.4%, just 0.2 percentage points below the 7.6% of 1994. Exports and the greater domestic consumption of durable goods, such as cars and household appliances, accelerate the rhythm of work in factories. The number of jobs generated by the domestic industry has also risen in the period: 2.8%.
From the Newsroom São Paulo – Brazilian agribusiness exports reached US$ 36.037 billion between January and November this year. This performance is 29.2% greater than the US$ 27.8 billion in the same period in 2003. It is also the largest volume registered in the period since 1989. The figure is also much larger than the
