From 19 to 21 May System Italy will make a business trip to Mozambique that promises to be one of exceptional importance. The delegation, led by Deputy Minister for Economic Development Carlo Calenda, will include the participation of 82 businesses, 6 professional associations and 5 banks.
One of Italy’s most important missions to Sub-Saharan Africa
This is “one of Italy’s most important missions to Sub-Saharan Africa”, the ministry’s Deputy Director General and Central Director General for Internationalisation Vincenzo De Luca explained to PEI News. Mozambique is one of the region’s most dynamic nations, with massive resources and a significant potential for development that has increased over recent years, not least in the wake of major gas deposit discoveries in which our most prominent firm, ENI, has been a major player”.
Oil & Gas, infrastructure and agri-food industry
This mission will explore opportunities in other sectors also: Oil & Gas, infrastructure and agri-food industry, which could become a major outlet for Italy in that emerging country and others of Sub-Saharan Africa; careful planning for the actions to be undertaken in that direction at system level is currently underway.
Director’s booth
These missions are to be defined within the context of a “director’s booth for internationalisation” involving firms, professional associations and the Confindustria, as De Luca underscored. “We want to join with them in choosing which markets have potential, and are developing analyses of Made in Italy’s growth around the world and cross-referencing those with the potential of the markets of interest to our firms, in such a way as to pinpoint new areas and countries. Last month a mission was made to Mexico; to Saudi Arabia the month before; Mozambique is up next, and we will be receiving one from Angola, with a country presentation in which hundreds of Italian firms are expected to participate. We are approaching countries in which our companies have traditionally had either no or a very limited presence”.
