The president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce Antonio Luis Carricarte and the vice-president of Portugal Chamber of Industries and Commerce Nuno Pinto de Magalhaes signed a cooperation accord on Monday to develop joint projects in the interest of their nations’ business communities in diverse economic sectors.

Spain’s Granferretero joint venture and Farmavenda Iberica S.L. group and Camacho International S.L. along Argentina’s Emifoods L.L. and Grupo Sur will be the first foreign companies to operate in the retail and wholesale Cuban market in April and May.

Headed by Wilfredo González, First Deputy Minister of Communications, the Cuban delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum held in Geneva, Switzerland, denounced the impact of the U.S. blockade on the digital transformation underway in the country.

The National Botanical Garden of Cuba (JBN) will celebrate its 55th anniversary on March 24 with the presence of its founders and a colloquium with international guests.

Cuban ministry of economy and planning (MEP) approved today 116 new economic actors, of which 115 are private micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and one state-owned one.

Cuban Foreign Trade and Investment Minister Rodrigo Malmierca promoted business opportunities in Cuba for Indian companies, particularly in the areas of renewable energy, agriculture and biotechnology.

India and Cuba agreed that they can increase trade relations after the meeting between the Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, and the Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca.

A score of artisans from seven provinces completed their apprenticeship on diversification of products from silkworm breeding, at the Indio Hatuey Experimental Station of Pastures and Forages, in this locality, and a reference of this practice in Cuba.

The Club Med 2, considered one of the largest sailing cruise ships in the world, anchored today in the Olimpia Medina area of the port of Cienfuegos, with a hundred passengers on board, in the middle of the high season of tourism in Cuba.

Cuban minister of foreign trade and investment Rodrigo Malmierca, who heads a Cuban delegation on a working visit to India, presented today to more than 60 local entrepreneurs the business opportunities in Cuba.

Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, arrived today in India from Qatar at the head of a delegation of representatives of the agricultural, renewable energy and biopharmaceutical sectors.

Cuba’s Economy and Planning Ministry approved 101 new private business applications.

Almost half a million visitors, 489,000 foreigners, arrived in Cuba until late February this year, which represents 51 % in relation to the same period of 2019.

The Portuguese hotel group Vila Galé, one of the largest in that country, is in the process of expanding its operations to Cuba, company executives confirmed today.