Havana, March 25 (RHC) A 32-company Brazilian entrepreneurial mission will visit Cuba over the next few days to explore business and investment opportunities in the Special Development Zone in the western harbor of Mariel.
According to Cuban television, the representative in Cuba of Brazil’s Investment and Export Promotion Agency (APEX-BRASIL), Hipolito Rocha, the group of companies are in the sectors of food, construction, medications, machinery and equipment, some of them for oil drilling.
Rocha recalled that trade exchange between Cuba and Brazil increased by 9.2 percent over the past five years, with Brazil now being among Cuba’s major commercial partners.
The commercial initiative, organized  by Apex-Brasil, will also count on the participation by officials from the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, the Mariel Special Development Zoe and the Cuban Foreign Trade and Investment Ministry.