{"id":157665,"date":"2018-04-11T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=157665"},"modified":"2018-04-11T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T16:35:55","slug":"brazilians-seeking-funds-conference-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilians-seeking-funds-conference-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilians seeking funds in conference in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dubai \u2013 Besides the main conference, the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM), forum on foreign direct investments that ended this Wednesday (11) in Dubai, included an expo for countries and companies looking to attract investments, with B2B meetings between them and potential investors. Brazilians attended the event to pitch their projects and attract funds.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The event also included an investment expo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Casemiro T\u00e9rcio Carvalho, from S\u00e3o Paulo-based Gar\u00edn Investimentos, attended the meetings and talked with many potential investors. \u201cThis event plays an important role, which is aligning expectations,\u201d he said, meaning that the forum works as a thermometer for the viability of a project\u2019s features to international investors.<\/p>\n

Gar\u00edn\u2019s focus is to attract funds to ventures in Brazil, in the infrastructure sector, although the company has also included in its portfolio a project of a meat packing company 100% halal, that is, where animal slaughtering conforms to the Muslim tradition. \u201cOur purpose is to be a bridge to foreign direct investments,\u201d said Carvalho.<\/p>\n

The company presented projects in the sectors of ports, iron ore, logistics, gas-fired thermal plants, among others. In AIM\u2019s last day, Carvalho was pleased with some of the contacts that he made.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Some stands were very crowded<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CEO of the Paran\u00e1 state investment agency (Ag\u00eancia Paran\u00e1 de Desenvolvimento \u2013 Investe Paran\u00e1), Adalberto Netto, and the coordinator of Foreign Investments at Brazil\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture, Reinaldo Vergara, also attended the meetings. Netto also spoke at a panel on investments in Latin America.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the main events on investment attraction,\u201d said Netto, who has now attended AIM for the third time. \u201cWe have been getting a good feedback,\u201d he said, adding that the conference is also a good learning opportunity.<\/p>\n

In this edition, Investe Paran\u00e1 started negotiations on an agreement with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office, the emirate\u2019s investment promotion agency. \u201cWe\u2019re searching for complimentary points, areas of synergy,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n

Netto and Vergara also met with potential investors, the holding company Loukil, from Tunisia, and the agribusiness multinational company Olam. \u201cThey know the Brazilian market and are open to extend their participation,\u201d said Vergara.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Countries made presentations. In the photo, Nigeria’s presentation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Itaqui Port Authority chairman, Ted Lago, was another Brazilian that attended the meetings. Besides the fund raising, he wants to expand business with the Middle East via the port. \u201cOur idea is to connect Brazil\u2019s Midwest and North with the Middle East via Itaqui,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

The port handles large amounts of grains and has a connection with one of Brazil\u2019s main producing regions via the North-South Railway. \u201cBut we also want to add value to grains,\u201d said Lago. The goal is to attract investments to the state\u2019s meat processing industry.<\/p>\n

He also said that the Brazilian region covered by the port is a market of 50 million people and that there are opportunities in the field of fuels to Arab companies. \u201cWe are the top gasoline-importing port in Brazil and the second or third in diesel importing,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alexandre Rocha\/ANBA<\/div>\n
Alexandre Rocha\/ANBA<\/div>\n
Alexandre Rocha\/ANBA<\/div>\n
Alexandre Rocha\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public officials and private sector representatives attended the Annual Investment Meeting to pitch projects and showcase the country\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":157620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[343,232,139,496],"class_list":{"0":"post-157665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-annual-investment-meeting","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-dubai","11":"tag-investments"},"wps_subtitle":"Public officials and private sector representatives attended the Annual Investment Meeting to pitch projects and showcase the country\u2019s potential.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}