{"id":359327,"date":"2024-03-04T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T22:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/chohfi-good-moment-for-brazil-and-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T20:58:37","slug":"chohfi-good-moment-for-brazil-and-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/chohfi-good-moment-for-brazil-and-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chohfi: Good moment for Brazil and Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The moment is of opportunity for Brazilian companies in <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong>. So said <strong>Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) president Osmar Chohfi <em>(pictured above) <\/em>at the Brazil-Saudi Arabia Conference held by business group <strong>Lide<\/strong> on Monday (4) in the headquarters of the Federation of Saudi Chambers in Riyadh. The conference is part of the mission that Lide is taking to the region, which started on Sunday (3) and will go next to the United Arab Emirates, ending on Friday (8).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a good moment to expand the economic cooperation between Brazil and Saudi Arabia as Saudi Arabia is living in a moment of great development in the context of the Vision 2030,\u201d he told ANBA. The Vision 2030 is a strategic plan of the Arab country to diversify its economy and boost growth. According to Chohfi, the initiative opens huge windows of opportunities for Brazilian companies to participate in Saudi projects across different areas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_343593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343593\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/furlan-lide-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-343593\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/furlan-lide-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-343593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Furlan (R) speaking during mission to Saudi Arabia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chohfi also pointed out the series of high-level visits that have occurred between the countries, including the most recent by Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva to Saudi Arabia, strengthening the potential of economic cooperation and trade. The ABCC\u2019s president also spoke of the commercial importance that the countries have for one another, with Brazil providing foods to Saudi Arabia, and Saudis selling their petroleum derivatives and fertilizers to Brazilians. Last year\u2019s bilateral trade reached USD 6.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The conference featured representatives of relevant industries in Brazil. Caetano Spuldaro Neto, Embraer Defense and Security\u2019s vice president of sales for the Middle East and Asia, spoke of the company\u2019s plans for the region. Ra\u00edzen vice president Paulo Neves addressed Brazil\u2019s potential in renewables. Rinaldo Mancin, vice president at Brazilian Mining Institute (Ibram), talked about the investment opportunities for both countries in energy and mining.<\/p>\n<p>Amaro Aviation CEO Marcos Amaro talked about the interest in being an aviation platform in Brazil. Abdulmalik Al Qhatan, Lide president in Saudi Arabia, said that energy, mining, logistics and industry are the four sectors that will guide Saudi economy. Brazil\u2019s former Agriculture minister Roberto Rodrigues said that the agribusiness, particularly the Brazilian, is key to solve global problems like food security, energy security, climate change, and social inequality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABCC at the mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides speaking at Monday\u2019s conference, on Sunday the ABCC\u2019s president gave the Brazilian businesspeople that are part of the mission an overview on Saudi Arabia and the Arab world. The delegation features Brazil\u2019s former Development, Industry, Trade and Services minister Luiz Fernando Furlan, chairman at Lide, and former S\u00e3o Paulo governor Jo\u00e3o Doria, co-chairman at Lide. Besides Chohfi, the ABCC is also represented by the head of its office in Dubai, Rafael Solimeo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce president Osmar Chohfi participates in a Lide mission to the Gulf and spoke during a conference in Riyadh about the moment of opportunity for Brazilian companies in the Middle East country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":358487,"comment_status":"closed","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":[46537],"tags":[48279,16704,48045,48053,48047],"class_list":{"0":"post-359327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arab-brazilian-chamber","8":"tag-chohfi-lide-en","9":"tag-lide","10":"tag-lide-mission","11":"tag-saudi-arabia-joao-doria","12":"tag-saudi-arabia-lide"},"wps_subtitle":"Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce president Osmar Chohfi participates in a Lide mission to the Gulf and spoke during a conference in Riyadh about the moment of opportunity for Brazilian companies in the Middle East country.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359327","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\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}