{"id":271621,"date":"2020-04-16T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=271621"},"modified":"2020-04-15T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:15:06","slug":"its-business-as-usual-for-brazil-kuwait-trade-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/its-business-as-usual-for-brazil-kuwait-trade-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s business as usual for Brazil-Kuwait trade: ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazilian product keeps shipping to Kuwait amid the lockdown, Brazil\u2019s ambassador to Kuwait Norton Rapesta (pictured<\/em>) told ANBA over the phone.<\/p>\n

According to Rapesta, Kuwait is taking every step to ensure fast product clearance and to keep trade flows going, via seaports, airports and roads. \u201cThere are no shortages, except for your non-essential product here and there, but that is normal. Yes, they are streamlining clearance of food products coming in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Q1 2020 saw USD 56.96 million in goods exported from Brazil to Kuwait, with poultry comprising over 80% of that. The amount was up 20.8% from Q1 2019. In March alone, exports from Brazil came out to USD 17.32 million, up 2.6% year-on-year, with poultry products accounting for 90%.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is working fine. [Kuwait\u2019s] Ministry of Trade and Industry reached out to me to find out whether Brazil would keep exporting and if everything was ok. I reassured them that there were no instructions to stop exports,\u201d said Rapesta.<\/p>\n

Kuwait will remain in lockdown until April 24 or longer, the ambassador said. There\u2019s also a 5 pm curfew in place, and schools will remain closed until August 1.<\/p>\n

The Embassy of Brazil is operating under a scheduled-visits only system, and staff shows up twice a week \u2013 on Sundays and Thursdays.<\/p>\n

There have been 1,405 cases of coronavirus and three deaths in Kuwait, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n

Passenger flights<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ambassador Rapesta (the 1st one standing from L to R) and the Brazilians at Kuwait International Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rapesta related that Kuwait had prohibited incoming passenger flights. This week, some chartered flights were allowed in, to bring back Kuwaiti citizens, and out, to get travelers back to their home countries. According to the ambassador, 24 Brazilians flew charter into Frankfurt, Germany this Wednesday (15) on one of Kuwait\u2019s Al Jazeera Airways planes. They are expected to arrive in S\u00e3o Paulo from Frankfurt on Thursday (16). \u201cThe Brazilian Embassy took care of authorizations and helped get the flight, but they each paid for their own tickets,\u201d he said. A total of 90 non-Kuwaitis were flown out of the country and into the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe.<\/p>\n

One Brazilian is returning by way of Doha, Qatar, Rapesta said. \u201cSince yesterday, Qatar Airways is back to flying from Kuwait to Doha twice a day, so that citizens can return to their countries, because now we have horizontal transmission here,\u201d he said regarding Covid-19. Most homebound Brazilians were athletes formerly employed in Kuwait who had their contracts cancelled. \u201cQatar Airways is the only airline flying on a regular basis, because it\u2019s from a nearby hub,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The ambassador said there are no reports of Brazilians infected by coronavirus in Kuwait. \u201cFortunately, none of the Brazilians are sick. They are all well and safe. That is the most important thing.\u201d Neighboring Bahrain, where Rapesta is also the ambassador of Brazil, hasn\u2019t closed its airports. All it did was reduce flight numbers and destinations. There are no reports of infected Brazilians there either.<\/p>\n

There have been 1,671 reported cases of coronavirus in Bahrain and 7 deaths.<\/p>\n

The ambassador said most of the people coming down with Covid-19 in Kuwait are Filipino, Pakistani, and Indian.<\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruna Garcia\/ANBA<\/div>\n
Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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