Tourists who buy tickets to Dubai from the airline may apply for the visa to enter the United Arab Emirates online at the company’s Website.
A program of the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) is providing training on how to export and import to 80 enterprises that make footwear, footwear parts and machinery.
The company signed an agreement with Modern Mining Holding Company Limited for the construction of a calcinated petroleum coke plant in the Arab country. Investment should be US$ 450 million.
Brazilian foreign sales totalled US$ 160 million this month, representing growth of 97% compared with the same period of last year. In the last four-month period, exports totalled US$ 555.9 million.
Figures disclosed by the sector association show that wholesale revenues in 2009 were US$ 6.1 billion more than in 2008, with growth of 4%. In 2010, the sector hopes to grow at least 6%.
Coach Caio Júnior and midfielder Juninho Pernambucano, both employed by the Al Gharafa team, were named the season’s best coach and best player in Doha, Qatar.
Brazilian exports, in the second week of May, totalled US$ 4.363 billion, and imports, US$ 3.411 billion.
Brazilian sales in the first quarter totalled 15.3% over the same period last year. Bilateral trade reached US$ 5.1 billion, expansion of 40%.
Works pertaining to government growth acceleration and housing programs and to the elections should boost paint and varnish sales in Brazil in 2010, according to the Sitivesp.
A popcorn vendor from Aracaju, the capital of the state of Sergipe, has become a supplier to the state-owned oil company Petrobras, which uses the grain in oil spill management simulations.
The Brazilian medical equipment company should begin exporting to the Arab countries in the second half. A trading company from Jordan will represent Ibramed in the Middle East.
In June, the Brazilian government will promote an international youth conference on environment. Adolescents from 52 countries will attend, including Qatar, Egypt, Yemen and Palestine.
The agency will inaugurate an unit in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, to promote investment and trade. The Apex already has five other centres, one of them in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
The figure concerns two aircraft purchased by the airline for the Doha-São Paulo route, to be inaugurated on June 24. The airline expects a strong demand for Middle Eastern and Asian destinations.

