The Brazilian cooperative answers to 5% of the global sugar trade and plans revenues of US$ 4.9 billion in the next sugarcane crop. The organisation announced a new associate, Pioneiros Bioenergia.
Up to 2011, European, North Americans and Middle Eastern investment is expected. This information was supplied by the minister of Tourism, Luiz Barreto, who participated in a sector event in Rio.
The Foreign Trade Meeting, to take place in São Paulo, should include a talk about exports to the Arab countries today. The speaker should be Rodrigo Solano, from the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
Brazil should present, on November 2nd, investment opportunities in agribusiness at a seminar in Riyadh. This is a beginning of closer ties with countries lacking productive land but with food demand.
A Robert Polidori photographic exhibit is at the Brazilian House Museum, in São Paulo. Photographs of Arab cities, like Beirut, Amman and Alexandria are included.
RDA, an international organisation to support rural communities, selected 23 Embrapa researchers. They will be recognized for the foreign projection of their scientific work.
The financial operations tax should not affect foreign investment in the Brazilian productive chain. The government is only taxing funds coming into the capital markets and fixed income investment.
Managers of the main energy companies and investment funds in the Emirates visited Manaus, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and São Paulo to learn about the potential of sectors in each state.
The minister of Foreign Affairs of the Emirates and the DP World CEO visited yesterday the area of the largest private port terminal in Brazil, to be built in Santos. DP World partners in the project.
Abdallah Nahyan, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Emirates, spoke to his colleague, Celso Amorim, and to minister Edison Lobão about cooperation in the renewable energy sector in Brasília yesterday.
In one of the largest gas discoveries this year, Repsol confirmed an estimated 1 bn to 1.4 bn barrels of oil equivalent of gas in the Gardón IV block, in the Gulf of Venezuela.
The average production of the Brazilian state-owned oil company was 2 million barrels a day in September. The volume represents growth of 5.6% over the same period last year.
The secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby, should give a talk to businessmen from Paraíba next Thursday (22). Admittance is free.
Brazil should have lower offer of ethanol and sugar in the 2009/2010 crops due to rain. This may be a problem for a bullish global market, which is already noticing lower production in India.
