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Special Economic Zones may boost Italian port’s growth

Special Economic Zones may boost Italian port’s growth

1 minuto The proposal to activate a special economic zone in the city of Genoa, hit by the Morandi bridge disaster, is important. It is facing a human, economic and social catastrophe, and any measure that is useful to accelerate the reconstruction of the bridge and, above all, the trust of the people is welcome. But beyond the facts and the safety of the infrastructure, it would be necessary to have a strategic non-emergency reflection to understand which concrete measures can be put in Continue lendo

2018 Forum Newsletter: Latest news on speakers and events

2018 Forum Newsletter: Latest news on speakers and events

menos de 1 minuto With the World Investment Forum 2018 only 2 months away, we are pleased and honored that 13 Heads of State and government, some 30 Ministers and CEOs of the world’s largest companieshave already confirmed their participation. These include the Heads of State of Switzerland, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Lesotho and Macedonia as well as CEO’s from global companies, including Aviva, Contour Global, De Beers, Hanson Robotics, ING Group, Jumia, Nestlé and Novartis to name a few. Continue lendo

Governo do Ceará visita Ásia em busca de montadora de veículos

Governo do Ceará visita Ásia em busca de montadora de veículos

3 minutos Em busca de atrair novas empresas para Zona de Processamento de Exportação do Ceará (ZPE Ceará) em São Gonçalo do Amarante, o Governo do Estado realiza visita à Ásia no próximo mês. Entre as conversas a serem iniciadas, está a tratativa de instalação de uma montadora de veículos na ZPE. “Temos uma siderúrgica e olhamos para outras indústrias. O projeto da montadora é algo em fase inicial. A Ásia é um grande mercado e o Ceará está em busca de uma linha Continue lendo

Djibouti free trade zone hub of global trade

Djibouti free trade zone hub of global trade

2 minutos The Djibouti Free Trade Zone (FTZ) covering 48.2 square kilometres and with four industry clusters once completed, will pave the way for the rise of the Horn of Africa nation as a global trade hub. The FTZ, the largest of its kind in Africa, is focusing on trade and logistics, export processing, business and finance as well as manufacturing and duty-free retail. The East African state broke ground on the FTZ in January 2017 and was officially inaugurated it in July. The facilities including Continue lendo

How far has the Shanghai Free Trade Zone gone 5 years after established?

How far has the Shanghai Free Trade Zone gone 5 years after established?

menos de 1 minuto This week marks five years since the start of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, a revolutionary plan to transform the way China does business. Who would have predicted, five years ago, that China would today be in the midst of a murky trade war; that tit-for-tat tarrifs would be hurled across the ocean from the United States on an almost weekly basis; that the very founding tenets of a free-trade zone – globalization – would be pitted against protectionism, in Continue lendo