GabonTrade exchange:
• The Embassy’s efforts aimed at promoting Egyptian companies at the local markets have succeeded in re-introducing a number of Egyptian companies to the Gabonese market, including Unionaire Group.
• A visit to the Special Industrial Zones in Egypt was arranged for Singapore’s Olam Group and the General Coordinator at the Gabonese Government, from May 5 to 13, 2014 in cooperation with the Department of Trade Agreements at the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry.
• The Three Pyramids Company holds an annual fair for Egyptian products, the only annual trade fair for a foreign country in Gabon, as it has achieved cumulative success over the past years.
It is being held annually in the capital Libreville and the economic center Port-Gentil and is attended by a representative of the Egypt Expo & Convention Authority. It attracts Gabonese public despite the need to develop its products.
• The Egyptian products fair was held in Port-Gentil from 24/4 to 4/5/2015, with the participation of Gabonese exhibitors for the first time at the initiative of the Embassy, as it agreed with the Egyptian Organizer of the fair to allocate 3 spaces for free to Gabonese companies in coordination with the Gabonese Trade Ministry, which was highly welcomed by the Gabonese side at both the political and media levels.
• Representatives of the Arab Contractors Company held a field visit to the Egyptian-Gabonese Hospital and proposed a project to construct a new annex building for the hospital to be introduced to the concerned authorities.Technical cooperation:
• In December 2014, the Egyptian side proposed a project for cooperation between the two diplomatic institutes of the two countries’ Foreign Ministries.