Growing Consumption of Natural SweetenersTuesday, October 14, 2014 Projections are for growth of 5% a year in the demand for natural sweeteners with no calories up to 2017, occurring mainly in developed markets such as Europe, Japan and North America. From a statement issued by the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER): Honduran Authorities Don’t Know Who Minerco Resources IsFriday, July 2, 2010 Minerco Resources Inc. (OTC: MINE) recently announced that it will develop hydro power plant “Chiligatoro”, but government sources stated they don’t know this company. In a press release published in MarketWatch.com on June 1st, it was announced that Minerco Resources had received approval from the National Energy Commission of Honduras to develop Hydro Power Plant Chiligatoro. Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010Tuesday, September 8, 2009 Central America: Costa Rica first (55 in the world), followed by Panamá (59), El Salvador (77), Guatemala (80), Honduras (89), Nicaragua (115). • Switzerland leads the rankings of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010 Central American Artificial IntelligenceFriday, March 19, 2010 In just a year and a half, and in the midst of an economic crisis, Central America’s information outsider, CentralAmericaData.COM, has become an unprecedented editorial success. From February 16th to March 18th, CentralAmericaData.COM, the region’s bilingual business website, was visited by 194.000 people, who read more than half a million pages, satisfying their needs for business, economics and finance information on Central America. Be Patient When Flying to Miami or New YorkTuesday, June 18, 2013 In major U.S. international airports delays at immigration and customs controls can last more than three hours. "Authorities are warning of extreme delays in the next few months on entering the United States, after waits of over three hours were recorded in the second quarter, which is low season, at control points of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, or CBP" reported Laprensa.hn. Food Service: Opportunities in the U.S.Tuesday, May 28, 2019 This cannel represents 42% of total spending by U.S. consumers on food outside the home, making it the sixth country in the world with the highest per capita spending on food in this type of channel. The study "Characterization of the foodservice channel in the United States", by Procomer Costa Rica, indicates that 33% of what Costa Rica exports to the U.S. Honduras: Model Cities Projects PresentedFriday, September 26, 2014 A logistics park, a port and a center for agricultural research and development in the Gulf of Fonseca would be the basis of the first Employment and Economic Development Zone (ZEDE by its initials in Spanish). From a statement from President of Honduras: Tender for Road Works in HondurasMonday, January 21, 2019 Tender for the rehabilitation and improvement works of the CA-6 Highway, section III, which includes Neteapa to Danlí, and is in the department of El Paraíso. Honduras Government Purchase LPI-01-BID-2470-3815-2019: Panama: 10 kilometers of Road to be TenderedMonday, October 17, 2016 The Ministry of Public Works is planning to tender in November the study, design and construction of a road from Potrerillo Arriba to Palmira Abajo, in Chiriqui. From a statement issued by the Ministry of Public Works: Colombian Port 250 miles from ColonThursday, December 15, 2016 The operator of Puerto Caldera in Costa Rica, has hired a French-Colombian consortium for the construction of a multipurpose port in the Gulf of Uraba, adjacent to the border with Panama, with an investment of $580 million. PIO SAS, a holding company dedicated among other sectors to the development, implementation and management of services for port infrastructure and logistics, has announced that the consortium Sapeim from France and Termotecnica Coindustrial S.A. from Colombia, is the preferred contractor for the stage of Engineering, Procurement, and construction (EPC) of Puerto Antioquia, which will be the closest Colombian port to the Panama canal and the closest to Medellin and Bogota. El Salvador's Debt Rating Downgraded AgainThursday, February 2, 2017 In line with recent warnings issued by other credit rating agencies regarding the country's bleak fiscal outlook, Fitch has reduced the debt rating from B + to B, and changed the outlook to negative. From a press release issued by Fitch Ratings: Three Bids in $17 million Road TenderMonday, March 26, 2018 Between $19.9 million and $20.7 million is the range of proposals presented by the construction companies Meco, Conansa and Cusa, in the tender to design and build a stretch of road in Western Panama. The company Concreto Asfáltico Nacional (Conansa) proposed a price of $20,653,851. For its part Constructora Urbana (Cusa) offered $19,986,710. Meanwhile, the company Constructora Meco proposed the price of $20,755,438.85. Nicaraguan Tourism Promoted in the U.S.Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Tourism industry representatives are participating in the Annual Meeting of the United States Association of Tour Operators, known by the acronym USTOA. A press release from the newspaper "El Pueblo Presidente" reads: Services Exports in El SalvadorThursday, May 24, 2012 In 2011 sales of Salvadoran services abroad totaled $1.1 billion, 10% more than in 2010. A statement from the Agency for Promotion of Exports and Investments in El Salvador (PROESA) reads: Contact Lens Factory to Open in Costa RicaMonday, December 10, 2012 CooperVision, the second largest manufacturer of contact lenses in the Americas, announced the installation of a modern contact lenses manufacturing facility. A statement from the Costa Rican Coalition for Development Initiatives (CINDE): |
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