The exhibition “Navy of Brazil – past glories, future accomplishments” will run from June 14 to 29 in Beirut, marking the Brazilian Navy Day by showing officers interacting with Brazilian and Lebanese civilians.
Next July, ‘The West and its Opposites’ will show how biased notions about Eastern peoples came into being in the West, from Ancient Greece to today’s prejudice against Arabs. Enrolments are open.
The product’s exports dropped 17.4% in volume and 27.3% in revenues in May. Lebanon was listed as the 18th largest market for the Brazilian coffee abroad.
Holding company TAG-Org’s chairman Talal Abu-Ghazale joined the Brazilian ambassador in Amman, Francisco Soares Luz, to discuss existing opportunities.
Shipments abroad dropped 0.6% over the same month of last year. Year-to-date, sales abroad are 7.4% higher with exports totaling USD 36.6 billion.
Under the title Governance in Unpredictability: Paradoxes in Family-Run Businesses, consultant Fernando Curado will speak on precautions and opportunities for entrepreneurs in the current crisis scenario.
A negative foreign market outlook caused the United States currency to hike and the main São Paulo Stock Exchange index to drop.
Foreign sales of beef from Brazil were up 8% in value and 14% in volume last month. Egypt was the fourth leading buyer and Saudi Arabia was ninth.
The National Supply Company forecasts a crop yield of 196.5 million tons of grains in the 2015/2016 period. A prolonged drought reduced production.
The Minas Gerais, Brazil-based company makes X-ray equipment to be used at ports, airports and border checkpoints. It is looking for representatives in Middle Eastern and African countries.
Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and the Federal Revenue are working together to implement a project that should cut down clearance times for international meat sales.
The Sesc (Social Service of the Commerce) branch in Campo Limpo, São Paulo, will hold the event next Friday. Among the performers is Syrian Abdulbaset Jarour, who will sing Arab songs.
Output was 2.83 million barrels on average, an increase of 5% over April and of 2% in comparison to May of last year.
It was the steepest increase in the official price index in a May since 2008. Housing was the sector responsible for the sharpest elevation in the period.
