Container traffic reached 1.55 million TEUs in the first half of this year, up 4% from H1 2014. The amount of automobiles and oil products handled also increased.
Sales of Brazilian products to the region grossed in excess of US$ 1.1 billion in June, the highest monthly revenue to date in 2015. In the first half of the year as a whole, however, export revenues declined.
Hossam Ramzy will be featured in workshops, concerts, lectures and an Arab dance immersion course in Recife, Rio de Janeiro and Águas de Lindóia in August. He has produced songs for Shakira and Ricky Martin.
The benefit targets researchers interested in projects involving one or more pieces from the library’s collection. Registration is open until July 24th. Applicants must be fluent in Portuguese.
Projections from Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and research corporation Embrapa show grain production in Brazil will go from 200 million to 260 million tons in ten years. Meats production should also grow.
As per FAO projections, in case new policies are not implemented, there will be 653 million hungry people in the world by 2030. In the Middle East and North Africa, the number should drop from 36 million to 29 million.
A report from Unctad advises that the sector’s potential be better explored in order to fuel jobs creation and growth in the continent.
A modernized version of the document, valid for ten years, was released this Friday (1st) by minister of Justice José Eduardo Cardozo. Security features have been improved.
The unit of the University of São Paulo in the city of Ribeirão Preto will offer an extension course on women in Islam, with an anthropological approach. The classes are free and start at the end of August.
The continent’s development bank will send resources to the support program on the economic competitiveness of the Arab country.
From July 2014 to June this year, Brazilian producers shipped the most product abroad in a single crop: 36.4 million 60-kilogram bags. Sales to Arab countries declined in the first half of 2015.
US dollar outflows were higher than inflows in June. During the first three business days in July, the foreign exchange balance is already running a US$ 1.5 billion deficit.
Survey by the National Confederation of Industry shows that 60% of the companies in the sector adopted measures to reduce spending with employees, such as mandatory vacations, less shifts and layoffs.
Importers from the region are attending industry expo Francal, in São Paulo, and the growth plans of exporting companies at the event include increasing sales to Middle East countries.
