Military Production seeks Portuguese cooperation in tablet making

CAIRO – 23 May 2018: Minister of State for Military Production Mohamed El Assar met with the Portuguese ambassador to Egypt, Madalena Fischer, to address cooperation in the field of industry.

Assar also met with Georgi Sakoto, executive director of the Portuguese JP Sá Couto, a distributor of electronic products and software solutions, to discuss manufacturing tablets and personal computers.

During the meeting, Assar discussed the opportunity for a mutual cooperation between JP Sá Couto and Banha Company for Electronic Industries, a leading military production company, by exchanging expertise and information between the two companies.

Fischer praised Egypt’s economic reform program that attracts Portuguese investments and helps execute joint projects. She also expressed the keenness to announce new partnerships between Portuguese companies and Egyptian military production companies.

In December 2017, Assar also met with Fischer, where they discussed cooperation in the fields of joint military and civil manufacturing.

Assar expounded the military and civil manufacturing domains of the military production companies, as well as national projects that the ministry takes part in.

He also reviewed potential cooperation between Egypt's military production companies and Portuguese companies, expressing eagerness to open new vistas of cooperation through exchanging the know-how in the manufacturing sphere.

During the meeting, which was attended by a delegation of Portuguese companies, Assar urged sending Portuguese technical delegations to get acquainted with the manufacturing expertise of Egypt's military production companies.

In February, Assar met with visiting Portuguese Secretary of State for Internationalization Eurico Dias to discuss cooperation between the two sides.

Assar said he is keen on boosting cooperation with Portugal, particularly in the field of roads and the manufacture of trailers and fishing boats.