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With a Tourism Law that is almost 20 years old and a sector that needs oxygen after being hit hard by the pandemic, the current Government has launched its decision to put together a new law that is in line with the current situation and is Coupling to the dynamics of the sector....

The production of sugarcane and ethanol result in 200,000 jobs, that is, more than 3,000 independent farmers and 5,000 families producing artisanal alcohol in the Sierra area, according to the Association of Biofuels of Ecuador (Apale). And investments have been generated in...

EP Petroecuador today exported the first shipment of 1,080,000 barrels of East crude oil through the OCP terminal, through the interconnection of the Balao-Punta Gorda maritime terminals. The international spot sales competition, held by the state-owned oil company on June 3, was...

The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague confirmed, last Friday, the ruling in favor of the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSDIA), in the arbitration it has maintained with Ecuador since 2003. A legal dispute between the U.S. pharmaceutical company and the...

The efforts of the Ecuadorian banana sector, through the Banana Cluster,to find a variety of bananas resistant or at least tolerant to Fusarium race 4 are not only focused on the international arena in search of the import of plant material, but also within the country. The...

Around 400 farmers from Pichincha and Azuay — mostly women — have managed to venture into the virtual field to sell their products online, through the website La Cosecha del Día. This initiative, of the Heifer Foundation, seeks to promote sustainable food systems with the...

Silversea Cruises kicked off its galapagos tourism operations this week with its luxury ship Silver Origin. This vessel, built in 2020 and with capacity for 100 passengers, is the first focused on a specific destination. The company dedicated to ultra-luxury cruises indicated...

Ecuador’s return, after eleven years, to the Convention on Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID) already generates reactions in Ecuador’s business associations, after Ecuador’s ambassador to the United States,...

Ecuador’s Ambassador to the U.S., Ivonne Baki, today signed the Convention on settlement of investment disputes between states and nationals of other states (ICSID). This convention is a space for the resolution of investment conflicts at the international level. Thus,...

On June 9, an Ecuadorian company exported for the first time a container of organic cocoa to Austria. ProEcuador indicated that the operation was carried out with the support of Ecuador’s commercial office in Turkey, and kept the names of the companies involved in the...