After meetings with his ministers, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decided to make around US$ 1 billion available for investment in highways and ports, and is interested in private participation in "repairs and expansion" of the railway system. He also requested "greater coordination between organizations that inspect products for export.
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From the Newsroom São Paulo – The Saudi Medicare fair, which was scheduled for May 23 to 27 this year in Riyadh has been postponed "until further notice", informed the organizers. The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) was going to participate in the fair, which deals with a sector considered a priority for Brazilian
The northeastern sandal producer, already responsible for 17% of the rubber sector in Brazil, has been investing in the creation of franchises to increase brand awareness throughout the country. Apart from that, the company plans to prospect new markets, like the Middle Eastern, African, and Asian.
The owner of a large Arab distributor, ID Design, with two warehouses in Dubai, should arrive in Brazil next week to participate, for the first time, in the largest international furniture fair in Latin America. Movelsul to take place from March 8 to 12 in Bento Gonçalves, in the southern state Rio Grande do Sul.
Agência Brasil Brasília – After a ten-day visit to Brazil, Libyan representatives sent a letter to the Minister of National Integration, Ciro Gomes, to express their intention to invest US$ 450 million (R$ 1.340 billion) in irrigation projects. On Friday (20), Libyan government representatives, including Ambassador Mohamed Matare and the general director of the Libyan
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – Some 70 American businessmen from the state of Oklahoma are visiting Rio de Janeiro for a look at local production of natural gas and investment opportunities in that sector. Oklahoma City and Rio de Janeiro are "brother cities," and the US state has always had a large petroluem and
The organization is going to participate in multisector (Egypt, Algeria, and Syria) and in furniture and civil construction (United Arab Emirates) fairs. Companies interested in further information should contact the Chamber.
In little less than three months work, Bom Jardim Vasos has already sent products to Spain and France. Now the company wants to start contact with other potential markets, such as the Arab countries. To guarantee product success "out there" the businessman counts on precious Internet help.
Using banana trees, raw material that is easily found in the Brazilian flora, artisans from the city of Miracatu, in Ribeira Valley – in the southeastern state of São Paulo -, produce artistic products. The group has been visited by the Japanese, English, and North American businessmen, and also sent samples to an international fair in France. The target is to increase production and conquer the foreign market.
"We can buy around US$ 10 billion from Brazilian companies," stated Nabil Saliba Tarazi, director of Cathay Consortium, to ANBA. The company intends to start the construction of Amber Islands, a group of islands to include hotels, houses, shopping malls, and even hospitals in Aiman emirate. The Chamber of Commerce in the region has stated that there are other tourist projects in progress in the country, among them, the construction of a new international airport.
Company Agrostahl, in the industrial state of São Paulo, exports to a distributor in the United Arab Emirates, from where it enters the Middle Eastern market, supplying other countries in the region, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Based on the sales result, which has been growing 100% a year since 1999, the company wants to do business with the Arabs on the African continent.
Made up of 15 small companies in the Ribeirão Preto region, in the southeastern state of São Paulo, Brazilian Health Products participated in a sector trade fair in the United Arab Emirates, in January, where deals for the value of US$ 192,000 were closed and negotiations for various other contracts to be closed within the next 12 months were started.
From the Newsroom São Paulo – A spokesperson for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced yesterday (02) that the institution has approved a US$ 150 million loan to Unibanco bank. The funds, according to the IDB, are for a line of credit for middle- and long-term projects in infrastructure, to be administered by Brazilian companies
