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On 5 and 12 February NBSO Brazil held its first round of webinars. The objective of the webinars was to introduce Brazil and more specifically the regions in which the Netherlands Business Support Office Brazil operates, namely the State of Minas Gerais and the Southern region of Brazil. The presentation was directed at Dutch entrepreneurs […]

One of the opportunities in the Minas Gerais state mentioned in our first Webinar is the Aerotropolis. It foresees a handful of logistical parks and industrial plants of which are leading the state’s main airport to be one of the Latin America’s top listed air hubs. Certainly, it is a continuous project that demands leading […]

  Business Projects (descriptions) South Brazil   1 – Widening and modernization of Paranaguá Port Name of the Project: Restructuring Exports Corridor: it consists on building piers system for mooring four ships – larger than the ones currently embarking in the Port – forming a “T” perpendicular to the current quay, allowing the widening of […]

Due to on-going scarcity of rain of which has intensified the water crisis in the country’s reservoirs, Brazilian government is calling attention to energy resources other than the hydroelectrically based. Alternatively, to the dams, energy based on Biomass and Wind powered are now seen as a solid reality and therefore it implies on call for […]

[Update] A new deadline date has been confirmed by the government. Applicants can now submit their demonstration of interest until the last day of January. BRAZIL – Ministry of Environment – MMA INTERÁGUAS PROJECT Loan Agreement No. 8074 BR – World Bank The INTERÁGUAS project invites companies or consortia eligible to indicate their interest on […]

As the New Year has finally come to its beginning, so does Minas Gerais’ new state government. Since the first day of the year, the state has been ruled by the economist Fernando Da Mata Pimentel, 63, who has recently worked for Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade under Dilma Rousseff’s first term. […]

The municipaliy of Belo Horizonte launches the GOAL BELO programme to attract foreign companies to invest in and develop business with Belo Horizonte. The investment attraction and trade promotion programme of the city aims to  attract foreign investment, promote Belo Horizonte commercially and support the set of activities that have been developed on behalf of […]

Mineral Coal Energy and economic development have such umbilical relation that we cannot speak on development without an ample infrastructure based on installed energy. The Federal Government has recently presented the new model of the Brazilian Electrical system. Due to this proposition, the State of Rio Grande do Sul becomes naturally inserted in this project […]

On the 12th of November 2014 the Netherlands Business Support Office – NBSO Brazil officially opened its office in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. NBSO Brazil is a non-diplomatic office of the Dutch government, administrated by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO in Dutch) of the ministry of Economic Affairs, opened in Brazil to identify and present […]

  NAVAL CLUSTER FAIR 2015 – South of Brazil (Port of Rio Grande) The first Naval Cluster Fair/RS [its 4th edition will be on 20-23 October 2015] arose from Petrobras’ growing demand for Supply Vessels Platforms and Oil Tankers and the resumption of shipbuilding. As a result, an event was created with the goal of discussing […]