According to BNDES president Luciano Coutinho, the institution should seek foreign capital for ‘high quality’ projects in infrastructure, ethanol, oil and gas, agribusiness and environment.
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Brazilian foreign sales of medical-hospital and dentistry products totalled US$ 581 million last year. Despite the growth, exports were below Abimo expectations.
According to BNDES president, Luciano Coutinho, expansion should take place up to 2010. He said that there are no projects being cancelled in the country and that there is repressed demand to supply.
The agreement between the Egyptian and German airlines is aimed at improving the quality of the services of Egyptair. The idea is to establish a new company with investment of US$ 10 million.
The four companies in the country for Khartoum International Fair made contact with importers within and outside the event. Movement at the Brazilian stand tripled in the third day of the fair.
Randa Achmawi, a Brazilian journalist based in Cairo, received last week the Menton Medias Mediterranee Journalism Award for articles published about the region.
This statement was made by the Foreign Relations secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Célio Porto, who credits the good result to recovery of agricultural prices and volumes traded.
This is the first negative result in the trade balance since March 2001.
Celso Amorim called, in Davos, for all nations to lobby so that the congressmen of the United States do not approve new protectionist measures.
Cofat, of Elloumi group, a producer of electric cables for vehicles, should install a factory in the capital of Paraná. The company plans to start producing in 2009 with investment of 1 million euros.
The increase was 8%. Brazil is in the third place in the sector ranking in the world, with around 1.6 million vehicles powered by Vehicle Natural Gas.
Stylist Irá Salles, who has been exporting to the emirate for five years, established a line especially for brand Sauce. The releases should soon also arrive in Kuwait.
The statement is by Development minister Miguel Jorge. Pressure by importers and the influence of the ‘power of the media’ helped cancel the need for a prior license for imports, according to Jorge.
Forty Brazilian professionals are in Algiers, hired by auto manufacturing company Renault, to repair some 4,000 brand new vehicles damaged by hail.

