The training programme has turned four years old and over 13,600 workers have graduated. The budget is 66 million euros and will continue until 2011.
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The fashion salon brought together over 500 buyers, generating US$ 18.5 million in exports. The importers included representatives of the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.
OGX announced today that it has found hydrocarbons at well OGX-5, located in shallow waters in the south of Campos Basin.
Projects announced at the Couromoda forecast investment of US$ 31 million to expand exports of Brazilian shoe and component industries. Funds should be disbursed by the Apex and associations.
The two companies announced the purchase of Unipar’s share of Quattor petrochemicals and its incorporation into the competing Braskem, which becomes the Americas’ leading thermoplastic resin maker.
The organisation that works for social insertion of afro descendants should have AfrobrasNews starting on February 1st. The site should publish articles about black populations in Brazil and abroad.
The Brazilian food company closed its first sale to Syria, consisting of 133,000 cans of fish. The enterprise is also negotiating deals in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
The contract provides for the leasing of two Embraer 170 jets to the Bahraini airline, and was signed during a trade fair held in the country. the company flies to 39 cities in 27 different countries.
The surplus of dollar inflow and outflow in Brazil was due to the improvement of investment in bonds, fixed income and remittance of profits and dividends.
In 2009, the company extracted 2.5 million barrels of oil and gas per day, on average, in its domestic and foreign operations. In Brazil, the daily output was 2.3 million barrels.
The information was supplied by the minister of the Special Secretariat for Ports, Pedro Brito. He stated that the sector is a priority, and that improvements should take place across the country.
The 2009 result was 4.36% lower than that of 2008. Overall foreign sales from Brazil, however, dropped by 22%, leading the share of shipments to the Arab world’s to rise from 4.96% to 6.14%.
Gasoline and aviation fuel sales by Petrobras Distribuidora totalled 310,383 cubic metres in 2009. Rising sales by airlines WebJet and Azul are among the factors that contributed to the expansion.
Brazilian foreign trade recorded a negative result of US$ 592 million last week, as a result of US$ 2.41 billion in exports and US$ 3.012 billion in imports.
