Brazil's Bahia to export cacao to UAE

Dubai – In his last day of appointments overseas, Brazil's Bahia governor Rui Costa (PT) visited on Thursday (28) the center for coffee of Dubai Multi Commodities Center (DMCC), a free zone that specializes in imports and exports of agricultural products in the United Arab Emirates. It was welcomed by CEO Ahmed bin Sulayem, who led the governor on a tour so that he could have an idea of how the center for coffee to be launched in the free zone will be like. At the end of the visit, Sulayem made several types of coffees for the governor and his delegation to taste. Pictured above, Costa and Sulayem. Costa visited the coffee processing plant that buys, rates, packages and exports coffees from around the world. DMCC intends to open a coffee center with a similar process and is very interested in cacao from Ilhéus, Bahia, since Sulayem visited cacao farms in Bahia last September. On the occasion, Sulay also visited the headquarters of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) in ...