The prime minister defended on Friday, before Japanese businessmen, that privatization offer “investment opportunities” including transport, praised the “resilience” and “predictability” of the country and considered able to become “one of the most competitive nations in the world.”
“I think there are excellent reasons for Japanese companies continue to invest in Portugal. The current privatization process in Portugal offers a number of investment opportunities that Japanese companies may consider, especially in the area of transport, “said Pedro Passos Coelho.
Speaking in Tokyo before dozens of entrepreneurs, members of Keidanren a Japanese business association, the head of government wanted to ensure “that Portugal, as shown in recent years, has a political and social resilience very large and that this is a distinguishing factor” when you compare “the Portuguese economy with other economies, even in Europe. “
” My belief is that we will know in the next few years to keep this great resilience, with a great predictability political, economic and social, “said Passos Coelho, at the organization’s headquarters that 1281 includes Japanese companies, 129 industrial associations and 47 regional economic organizations.
The official stressed that “all this, combined with broad economic reform efforts” that the country has achieved, “point to Portugal to be really one of the most competitive nations in the world with great dynamism, great openness to innovation and with great potential for economic growth, “he said.
In his speech in a working breakfast with Japanese businessmen, Steps Coelho said that “in 2014 it was possible to begin to see the positive results of reforms” carried out by the Government.
The Prime Minister stressed that these reforms “demanded the Portuguese people high sacrifices,” which, reiterated, “the Portuguese endured without jeopardizing social peace.”
When he spoke of investment opportunities, the Portuguese Prime Minister also referred to the agrifood sector and the fisheries in which there are already “important Japanese investment”, which can be expanded, especially in the Alqueva region, “fruit production area very good and it has today unmatched irrigation conditions.”
The so-called “blue economy” was another of the areas highlighted by Passos Coelho, stating that “the extension you want the limits of the continental shelf will open on investment opportunities, for example in the seabed of resources, particularly in mineral exploration.”
The concessions port, including container terminals, was another of interest mentioned potential opportunities.
The support its contentions, the Prime Minister presented a series of economic data, as the decrease in debt interest, the early repayment to the International Monetary Fund or the increase in exports, indicating the levels of unemployment and excessively high.
The breakfast was attended by representatives of more than 20 companies, including Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Murabeni, Sako, BNP Paribas Japan, Nomura, Toyota or Sumitomo Life Insurance.
Then the Prime Minister met with leaders of the Japanese counterpart of the Portuguese Agency for AICEP investment, JETRO, the headquarters which intervened at the opening of the seminar on green growth, with the theme “ smart cities, smart solutions .”
In this intervention, Passos Coelho said that “the area of electric mobility is unavoidable “for the two countries, underlining the” strong investment of the Japanese Government “in the sector and the” important progress made in terms of innovation, the production of these vehicles and industry developments already achieved, particularly in the segment of batteries. “
Pires de Lima says “it’s natural” Japan’s interest
Economy Minister Portuguese considered it natural that Japanese companies are interested by the ongoing privatization in Portugal, namely CP Rail Cargo and Equipment Maintenance Company (EMEF). “The Government has two ongoing privatization projects, TAP and transport concessions in Lisbon, just approved in the Council of Ministers Thursday the privatization of two companies more closely linked to engineering and transport, and the EMEF CP load, and it is natural that companies around the world, including Japan, to be interested by these privatizations, “said António Pires de Lima, told reporters.
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