SkyCargo, the cargo division of the United Arab Emirates airline, will have a stand at Intermodal South America, a foreign trade, logistics and international transportation fair due next week. The company will start flying to Brazil in October.
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Businessmen from Libya want to establish joint ventures with Brazilian companies, especially in the oil production equipment and construction segments. They also want to buy foodstuffs from Brazil. The interest was expressed during the participation of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in the Tripoli International Fair, which ended on Thursday (12).
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The Arab Brazilian Chamber is registering Brazilian companies interested in participating in The Hotel Show, a hospitality sector fair to take place between June 03rd and 05th in the United Arab Emirates. The organization will have a 144-square-metre stand at the fair, which presents products for hotel management, including furniture, decorations, hygiene material and food.
Diab Abu Ghosh, regional manager at HTM Sukhtian, a large industrial group from Jordan, is currently in Brazil to showcase cosmetics manufactured by the company. Ghosh is seeking a distributor for his products in Brazil and will participate in Hair Brasil, an international beauty fair scheduled to begin on Friday in the capital of the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo.
Brazilian trading company Latinex, from the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, which operates in the field of foods, is participating in Tripoli International Fair for the first time. The company hopes to start selling within two months. Brazilian presence at the fair was organized by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
The forecast for the coming five years was made by the minister of infrastructure of the Arab country, Abu Zeid Durdda, during a meeting with directors at the Arab Brazilian Chamber. The local government also intends to supply a housing deficit of 500,000 houses. Brazilian companies may participate in the projects, as well as supplying construction material.
In January last year, brand Divinas, which makes handicraft out of banana tree fibre, made an unexpected sale: a 100-square-metre carpet, weighing about 350 kilograms, to queen Rania, of Jordan. The deal was made soon after the company participation in fair Maison et Object, in France.
This is the opinion of the foreign trade agent at the Vitrolar Metalúrgica iron and steel company, Everton Luiz Pereira, who participated at the Project Qatar fair. According to him, the contacts made during the fair were very positive, and orders may be placed in the future. The stand of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce received approximately 100 visits in the four days of the event.
Brazilian companies may be suppliers for artificial island The Pearl-Qatar. With more than 400 hectares, the island will have 31 towers with 150 apartments, schools, stores and offices, and should be concluded in 2010, according to Roger Dagher, head of communications at UDC, the company in charge of the project. The company is currently participating in the Project Qatar fair, which also counts on the presence of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
Brazilian companies participating in fairs in the two countries have good business prospects. The Latinex trading company, which is currently at the fair in Libya, received importers interested in foodstuffs. To the exports agent at Itatiaia Móveis, Christian Barbosa, the company has a strong possibility of signing contracts, as does Trade Wind, which is at the Qatar fair. The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce has stands at both fairs.
Tripoli International Fair was opened by the minister of Economy, Trade and Development of Libya, Ali Abdul Aziz Al Isawi, and included the participation of the minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates, Lubna Al-Qasimi. Project Qatar, in turn, was inaugurated by the prime minister of Qatar, Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al-Thani. Both of the events include Arab Brazilian Chamber stands.
Lotas For Industry, which sells and assembles showerheads and water filters made by companies in Brazil, wants to find new small and medium companies from the country interested in having an assembly line in Egypt. The factory, which is located in Sixth of October City, close to Cairo, covers an area of 1,200 square metres.
Starting today, Project Qatar and Tripoli International Fair will count on the participation of the Arab Brazilian Chamber and three Brazilian companies. The event in Libya includes various sectors and goes on up to April 12. The fair in Qatar, in turn, is in the construction sector and goes on up to Thursday. This is the first time that the Chamber participates in both these fairs.
