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Sea navigation agreement between Brazil and Cape Verde signed in Fortaleza
Fortaleza, Brazil, 11 Jan – Brazilian shipping and docks company Companhia Docas do Ceará (CDC) and Cape Verdean ports manager Empresa Nacional de Administração dos Portos (Enapor) Tuesday signed a protocol of cooperation to increase business between Brazil and Africa, using the West African archipelago’s ports.
During the signing ceremony, the chairman of the Brazil Angola-Ceará Chamber, Roberto Marinho, said that the agreement was an, “important step as the aim if to use the port of Praia, for example, as a docking point for cargo destined for Angola, Senegal and other countries, and reducing transit time.”
Marinho added that Brazil-Cape Verde cooperation could also have impact on relations with the two countries in the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain), “as commercial shipping lines that leave those countries pass through Cape Verde.”
Docas do Ceará (CDC) is the company responsible for managing the port of Fortaleza (Mucuripe), and negotiations with Enapor were mediated by the Ceará Service to Support Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Ceará (Sebrae-Ce).
Source (Macauhub)
