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The 39th edition of the Havana International Fair, FIHAV 2023, opens activities on Monday, a space for participation and exchange among exhibitors, entrepreneurs, and professionals from Cuba and abroad. Sixty countries from all regions of the world and 800 companies are taking part in the event.
After touring several of the exhibition halls, the Cuban president Miguel Díaz Canel expressed his satisfaction with the massiveness of the event, and noted that this represents the confidence of entrepreneurs in the Caribbean country.
“Holding a fair of this magnitude, in the midst of the complex national context the country is going through, means that there is support from the international business community and from the countries that do business with the largest of the Antilles,” he stressed.
Regarding the performance of Cuban entities in the event, Diaz-Canel said it is necessary to achieve greater agility in the negotiation processes resulting from this event in order to materialize them in the shortest possible time.
On this first day, Russia, Spain, the Basque Country, the Czech Republic and Brazil will have their national days, there will be a panel of Cuban/foreign freight forwarders and international shipping companies, and it will be the official opening of the stands of the Mariel Special Development Zone and the provinces, which bring local development projects.
Some 500 companies from Cuba, including more than 140 -and 39 MSMEs- located in the Central Exhibition Stand of the fairgrounds, will showcase their main exportable goods and services open to foreign investment, a priority for the economy given the complex situation it is going through.
Considered the leading trade fair in Cuba and the Caribbean, the event will be held at EXPOCUBA fairgrounds until November 11 and is a meeting point for all sectors of Cuban economy.
Another attraction will be the 6th Investment Forum, an opportunity for meetings between Cuban and foreign entrepreneurs and potential foreign investors.
The promotion of Cuban exportable funds, which will include the production of the state and non-state management forms, and a representation of Cuba’s 13 export production centers are also added.
There will also be a pavilion for Cuban residents abroad who maintain business relations with their homeland, to which others who intend to establish new ventures in Cuba could be joined.
Another focus is a panel of Cuban and foreign transit agents and international shipping companies.
Source: Periódico Digital Centroamericano y del Caribe / News Agencies
