{"id":279361,"date":"2020-08-28T10:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=279361"},"modified":"2020-08-28T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:26:52","slug":"kizad-offers-tailor-made-plans-for-brazilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/kizad-offers-tailor-made-plans-for-brazilians\/","title":{"rendered":"KIZAD offers tailor-made plans for Brazilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo The Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) has laid out plans for Brazilian companies. According to commercial director Khalid Al Marzooqi (<em>pictured above<\/em>), KIZAD has worked closely with Brazilian investors to better understand their business requirements and challenges. \u201cTo help facilitate their market entry, we are offering tailor-made investment plans and incentive packages, as well as collaborating with various governmental departments to help Brazilian companies speed up and streamline their set-up process,\u201d he told ANBA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kizad.ae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KIZAD<\/a> is an industrial zone subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Ports, the emirate\u2019s state-run port operator. The company offers all tenants tax benefits and low energy and utility rates. Additionally, the commercial director mentioned new regulations approved by the emirate\u2019s government to attract new business to Abu Dhabi. These measures include allowing 100% foreign investment ownership, as well as offering joint venture and partnership opportunities (with ownership of 49%) with local companies.<\/p>\n<p>The industrial zone already has important Brazilian companies established there, including food industry giant Brasil Foods (BRF). Al Marzooqi believes that last year\u2019s UAE trade mission to Brazil contributed to the increase of inquiries from Brazilians. Another important step was the signing of a <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/port-in-abu-dhabi-grows-and-seeks-out-clients-in-brazil\/\">memorandum of understanding<\/a> (MoU) between the Port of Abu Dhabi and the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC). \u201cKIZAD has been collaborating and streamlining its engagement with key Brazilian investors seeking to develop business in the region. The mission resulted in a large increase of inquiries, and the ABCC has been supportive in facilitating these discussions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One attraction of the free zone is its proximity to Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC), which streamline the process while reducing freight costs, for example. According to KIZAD, trade between the GCC and Brazil is currently estimated to be worth USD 15 billion, and Al Marzooqi is optimistic about the post-pandemic. \u201cAs KIZAD facilitates and add more value to these investments, we expect this figure will continue to grow in the years ahead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The director stressed the importance of Brazilian companies, particularly food manufacturers, in supporting other countries. \u201cBrazil is among the largest manufacturers and distributors of food in the world, and post COVID-19, we expect it will continue to play a major role in contributing to international food security through its activity in KIZAD\u2019s food manufacturing and logistics hub,\u201d the director pointed out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-279355\">KIZAD\/Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to offering joint venture opportunities with Arab companies, the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi offers tailor-made investment plans to attract Brazilian companies to the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"featured_media":279355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[9684,11909,12671,5898,1984,16408,3673,16909,12915,12670,3097,9579],"class_list":{"0":"post-279361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-abu-dhabi-en","9":"tag-abu-dhabi-en-2","10":"tag-abu-dhabi-ports-en","11":"tag-brazilians","12":"tag-free-zone","13":"tag-industrial-zone","14":"tag-joint-venture","15":"tag-joint-venture-2","16":"tag-kizad-ar","17":"tag-kizad-en","18":"tag-stimulus","19":"tag-uae-en"},"wps_subtitle":"In addition to offering joint venture opportunities with Arab companies, the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi offers tailor-made investment plans to attract Brazilian companies to the UAE.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279361","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\/2324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}