Rubens Hannun sat down for meetings with Saudi Arabian, Qatari and Kuwaiti diplomats to assess the trip to the Gulf organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and to discuss forthcoming actions.
Such was the traffic year-to-date through May. The number is up 3.8% from the comparable period in 2016.
Brazil’s dollar inflow surpassed the outflow in USD 4.3 billion last month, according to the Brazilian Central Bank.
An index that tracks the costs of staple goods in Brazil dropped slightly by 0.02% in June from May. In the 12 months through June, however, the indicator slid by 4.6%.
Company Shoe Palace did business with seven Brazilian companies in the footwear trade show taking place in São Paulo. The Arab Chamber has a spot in the fair and is providing support to importers.
The country’s facility at the world fair which Dubai is set to host will be built by Arabtec Construction. The design is from Santiago Calatrava, the architect who created Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Tomorrow.
The Africa Finance Corporation will lend USD 28 million to enable the start of production in the Halk El Menzel field, which is under concession to Tunisian company Topic.
Foreign sales from Brazil amounted to USD 3.6 billion in the first half of the year, with over 2 million tons sold. Egypt was a major buyer.
According to a survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), there was an increase of 0.8% over April ando f 4% over May of last year.
Saudi Arabia’s Elixir is looking for footwear suppliers for its new store chain, Kuwait’s Hazar Shoes wants to become a franchisee for a Brazilian brand and Oxygen, also from Kuwait, plans to keep on buying.
Foreign sales from Brazil to the region amounted to USD 5.6 billion in the first half of the month. Overall, the country saw a USD 36 billion trade surplus.
The airport’s terminals of the emirate welcomed 6,850,052 passengers in the fifth month of the year. The region with the sharpest growth in passenger number was South America with 60% over 2016.
Brazilian production averaged at 2.5 million barrels per day in 2016, up 3.2% from 2015. Exports reached an all-time high.
A group of 50 students from technical and services professions will take part in the WorldSkills Competition from October 14 to 16 in the UAE. In the last edition, Brazil earned the top spot in number of medals.
