FCC Construcción participated in the Spain/Brazil Investment and Business Cooperation Forum, which was organized by ICEX España Exportación and took place on 26 and 27 November last in Sao Paulo.

Vicente Mohedado, FCC Construcción’s deputy corporate manager for Latin America, gave the presentation on FCC, highlighting the company’s vast experience in marine construction.

The gathering was attended by over 150 Brazilian companies and fifty Spanish companies, notably including FCC.

The forum was supported by the economic and trade offices of the Spanish embassy in Sao Paulo and Brasilia. The event aimed at making it easier to identify investment and business cooperation opportunities and potential partners in the Brazilian market.

The fifty Spanish companies that participated in the forum came from industries that were specially chosen as high-priority takers for the opportunities currently available in the Brazilian market, to wit: architecture and building, engineering and infrastructure, machinery and industrial services, information technology and communications.

According to World Bank data, Brazil is the world’s sixth-largest economy and accounts for half of Latin America’s GDP. Its growth forecasts call for 2.4% in 2013 and 3% in 2014. Brazil’s political and economic stability rest on the macroeconomic reforms undertaken in the defence of a market economy and on the Brazilian government’s commitment to improving basic infrastructure.