Ceará Brazil

Blessed with sandy-white beaches, beautiful green sceanery and a continuous summer climate, Ceará has seen tremendous growth and prosperity in the last few years. Due to its climate, accessibility to Europe and the US and strong financial guidance, Ceará is set to grow in prosperity dramactically more in both infrastructure, tourism and industry.

The people and the culture in Ceará are an extricable mixture of Portuguese, African, Dutch and French origins tempered with the strength and beauty of their own environment. Each of these cultures coming together offers a rich environment for food, music, dance, drinks, art, crafts, architecture and love of the sea

Ceará has several lively coastal cities, tranquil beachside towns. With architecturally diverse cathedrals, town centers with quaint winding passages, historic sites, stunning sandy beaches, crystal clear blue waters, coral reefs with a vast marine population and endless water sports possibilities.

The Ceará state with its rich culture and perfect climate make it an easy and desirable location to own a second home or find yourself relaxing on a palm swept beach. Major airlines have direct flights to Fortaleza the state capital, from Lisbon (daily), Amsterdam, Oslo, Milian and Miami and Atlanta and more.

The Government of the State of Ceará intends to become self-sufficient in energy in the next 5 years. Aiming this, it is creating favourable conditions for the development of the sector. The implementation of the Tauá Solar Energy Park has begun in the early months of 2009 at an Investment cost of US$250 Million.

Ceará is the Brazilian state which most generates renewable energy (eolic, solar e ocean waves)?. Many towns in Ceara are already fully energy self-sufficient using Wind Engergy. The Ceará state govenment has already implemented 14 wind parks on the coast of the Ceara state being 500MW each. This was an investment of US$1 Billion.

The Northeast will be a national reference as the greatest export and industrial center. Ceara has an excellent geographical localization, associated to the adequate infrastructures by Pecém Off-Shore Industrial Port and Mucuripe Port (marine, road and railroad).

Please read more about the mass expansion of the Port of Pecem here.

Due to the geographical localization, (EUA, Europe, Africa and South America), the Brazilian Northeast Region is already offering to the exporting companies the best world conditions like logistic costs, delivery time and security for commercial transactions with the countries before mentioned.

Free Trade Zone are being born and will play an important role to attract investing companies aiming Exporting and Distribution Centers. Exploration of ore of iron beds and other minerals making the mineral productive chains viable.

By means of anchoring investments, such as Refinery and Steel Mill Plants will make viable a metal mechanic and petrochemical center, thus creating a favourable environment to attract different kinds of investments.

Federal and State investments in the Ceara along the last years have propitiated in credibility and capacity of Government investment.;

• Air, Road, marine transportation infrastructure; water resources, energy, public security, educational system, and research (universities, technical schools and research institutions).
• Expressive investment on water, electricity, gas, environment, energy efficiency, security and traffic engineering sectors.
• Setting special conditions to attract investment from industries and other economic activities mentioned before.
• Automobile parts, leather, paints and metal-mechanic Sectors qualified for making partnerships and developing complementary parts.
• Strong growth in the agro business sector due to natural resources, weather conditions and the existing infrastructure (tropical fruits, tilapia fish, shrimp, biomass fuels and flowers).
• Available qualified labor-work
• Recognized industrial vocation.
• Good atmosphere for partnership between Government and private sector.
• Massive investment on connections and maintenance of roads and railroads.

The Government is also creating an optical fibre infrastructure to give wide band access for the most important cities in the State, reaching 82% of the population. 3,000 km of optical fibre will connect a lot of cities and include the population, that can not pay for this kind of service, in the digital world.

Forecast of beginning: 2008
Forecast Ending: 2010
Total of Investments: US$ 20.4 million