Business / Trade in Cape Verde
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BOTSWANA, 2016/05/13
The collapse of virtual borders is one of the majority remarkable things to have happened in our lifetimes. In the world of cyberspace, time and distance have become almost peripheral considerations at the same time as it comes to doing business. Services from software development to accounting can be delivered across the world in the blink of an eye. Next business leaders will struggle to imagine an era at the same time as communication was neither immediate nor virtually free.
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MACAU, 2016/05/04
A Macau economic mission is taking part in São Paulo in APAS 2016, an international trade equitable for the supermarket sector organised by the Paulista Association of Supermarkets, from 2 to 5 May, according to official data.
The delegation, organised by the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), will meet with entrepreneurs and institutions topromote the territory as a business platform with Portuguese-speaking nations.
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ITALY, 2015/09/13
Mistrust has emerged part the East African Community partner states over Tanzania's commitment to the Economic Partnership Agreement that would give the region's goods business-free access to European markets.
Tanzania is likely to delay the signing and ratification of the EPA document on the grounds that it was rushed through. Dar es Salaam has threatened not to sign the transaction before its concerns on contentious issues are addressed. The region has until December 31 to sign the transaction with the European Union or go back to the negotiating table.
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CAPE VERDE, 2015/07/19
The enhancement of two-way economic and business relations is the major objective of a four-day visit the Prime Minister of Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), José Maria Neves, began Thursday to Guinea-Bissau, according to officials.
“At the end of this visit we will sign the agreements needed so that our relations will be enhanced and consolidates,” said Neves next a brief conference with his Guinean counterpart Domingos Simões Pereira.
The prime minister said the government of Cabo Verde was available to support Guinea-Bissau in the areas of national reform, modernisation of Public Government and Social Security.
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CHINA, 2015/05/14
Trade between China and the Portuguese language nations fell 25.36 % year-on-year to US$21.733 billion in the initial quarter of the year, indicate figures from the Chinese Customs Government released in Macau.
In the initial three months of the year China sold goods worth US$10.617 billion (+7.59 %) to the eight Portuguese language nations and bought merchandise worth US$11.115 billion (-42.25 %).
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CHINA, 2014/12/05
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Cape Verde counterpart Tolentino held talks on bilateral ties in Beijing Tuesday.
Wang said it was significant to China to cooperate with developing nations, as it believed in the principle that all nations, large or small, were equal.
Wang spoke highly of Cape Verde as its outlook on developing bilateral relationships was of a long-term and strategic view.
Wang and Tolentino agreed that both sides should deepen political mutual trust, safeguard the common interests of developing nations and strengthen international and regional affairs coordination.
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CAPE VERDE, 2014/05/31
A Chinese business delegation was welcomed Thursday by the mayor of Cabo Verde’s (Cape Verde’s) Boa Vista Island, José Pinto Almeida, as part of a visit to the archipelago to find out about the market and its business opportunities, Cape Verdean weekly newspaper A Semana reported.
Inclunding the conference with the local authority team, the members of the Chinese delegation as well met with public and private bodies inclunding companies and tour operators to look into potential areas for investment .
Last April, during a visit by the Chinese ambassador, Su Jian, to Boa Vista, Pinto Almeida proposed the possibility of scheduling a visit by Chinese investors and businesspeople.
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DAKAR CITY, 2014/02/27
Senegalese president Macky Sall will pay an official visit to Cape Verde in the initial week of March in a bid to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the two nations.
The Cape Verdian president, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, who announced the visit, did not specify the duration of Mr Sall's visit.
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UNITED STATES, 2013/07/08
US Secretary of National John Kerry has hailed the 'a lot of binding ties' shared between his country and Cape Verde, saying he was keenly aware of the historic contributions of Cape Verdeans in America.
Mr. Kerry's spoke in a congratulatory message he sent to Cape Verde on the occasion of the country's 38th independence anniversary on 5 July. 'As someone who represented Massachusetts for 30 years, I know that nothing links our nations additional closely than the presence of half a million Americans of Cape Verdean descent, concentrated in southeastern New England where they began to settle in the 1700s.
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CAPE VERDE, 2013/01/07
The number of payments made with electronic cards in Cape Verde from 1 to 25 December rose by 30 % compared to the same period of 2011, electronic payment system company Sociedade Interbancária e Sistemas de Pagamentos (SISP) said in Praia.
According to the figures, in that period transactions totalled 1.5 billion Cape Verdean Escudos (13.7 million euros) in payments made with the Vinti4 card, and the total amount at automatic teller machines (ATMs) exceeded 2.417 billion escudos (22 million euros).
