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
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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 largest chain of language schools in Brazil has established a daring expansion plan for 2005. Wizard already has six franchisees on the foreign market, in Japan and the United States, and the plan is now to go to Europe and to the remaining countries in Latin America. Three franchises have already been opened in Uruguay, Chile and Argentina and they teach Portuguese and English. The target is to have at least 20 schools outside Brazil up to the end of next year.
Company Zen, from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, exported 135,000 starter drives to the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, as well as Israel and Iran. The shipping of parts to the region represented around 1.65% of total company sales. The Zen target is to increase this percentage to 3% in 2005. The company is a national leader in the sector and exports to over 50 countries.
Fanem, the Brazilian leader in the neonatology sector, products for newly born babies like incubators and special cribs, is studying the installation of an assembly line in one of the 22 Arab countries. The intention is to simplify product sales in the Middle East and North Africa, the second largest market for the company on the foreign market, losing only to Latin America. Of all Brazilian export in the sector, 93% are credited to the company.
The Brazilian Agency for International Business represents companies in sectors such as food, cosmetics, slaughterhouses, and agriculture commodities when prospecting new markets for exports. The mineral water company Ouro Fino, for example, is represented by the agency and wishes to sell to the Arab market.
Various companies from Morocco that participated in the meeting with Brazilian companies on Friday, at the offices of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, want to establish joint-ventures to invest in the Arab country and in Brazil. Various contacts were made in various sectors, like tourism, agriculture, food industry and transport.
The leader of the delegation of Moroccan businessmen who visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) for a business roundtable, said that the trade relationship between the two countries should go beyond buying and selling. Mourad Cherif spoke to the group who attended the opening of the meeting about the fields that are growing in his country and that could take Brazilian investments. Amongst these are the tourism, telecommunications, construction and agriculture sectors.
Yesterday (25) Transpetro released the edict for the construction of 42 vessels. The tender is strategic for Brazil, which has a great demand for ships, and for Petrobras, which uses around 110 tankers, 60 rented from foreign companies. The tender is going to generate investment in shipyards and should revitalize the Brazilian naval industry. The companies have up to the end of January to deliver their proposals.
In all, 12 Moroccan businessmen, headed by the minister of Trade of the Arab country, Salah Eddine Mezouar, are going to be in São Paulo to participate in business roundtables. The meeting will be taking place in parallel to the visit Moroccan king Mohammed VI is making to Brazil. The king is going to meet Brazilian president Lula in Brasília today.
This is the opinion of Pedro Motta, head of the Africa department at the Itamaraty, the Brazilian Foreign Office. The king of Morocco, Mohammed VI, will be arriving in Brazil today, and tomorrow will sign a framework agreement with Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva so as to begin negotiations for a tariff preference agreement with the Mercosur, the common market of southern South America. According to the diplomat, as the Arab country already has accords with the EU and the USA, Braz
Magic Brazil, which brings together seven companies from the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, is participating in Big 5, the largest construction fair in the Middle East, which takes place in the United Arab Emirates, for the second time. Another four Brazilian business groups, among them Coopslate, from Minas Gerais state, in southeastern Brazil, are also participating in the event so as to try to start selling to the region. The construction sector should move around US$ 200
The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and the Moroccan embassy will promote, this Friday, business roundtables with 12 Moroccan companies. Up until yesterday, representatives from 25 Brazilian companies had already enrolled. The meeting will take place parallel to the visit of king Mohammed VI to Brazil. Today starts, in the city of São Paulo as well, a Moroccan food festival, in the Meliá Mofarrej hotel.
The factory from the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo also wants to establish a megastore in Dubai. For this purpose, the company is after commercial partners. An important player in the high quality furniture sector, the brand started its internationalisation process three years ago. Since then five stores have been inaugurated abroad, and the intention is to open another three next year.
