CEO's looks for more than oil as PM visits Gulf states

Among the best represented will be the oil and gas industries: PGNiG sees Qatar as a potential major supplier of LNG to its new terminal on the Baltic Coast, and Lotos is in talks to secure oil supplies to its Gdansk refinery from Kuwait. But the list of Polish companies looking to establish important business ties in the two countries is much longer: thus, Polimex-Cekop, the listed engineering group, is about to complete the acquisition of a steel plant in Kuwait to supply the local industry with steel products, and is looking for opportunities to establish a foothold as a general contractor there; the National Bank of Kuwait is rumored to be interested in buying a stake in Polish shipbuilders; Cefarm is looking to supply pharmaceuticals to Kuwait, and Polish spas want to strengthen their links with Kuwait, which already sources mineral water from them, by attracting Kuwaiti patients. (Puls Biznesu, p. 1, 4) R.M.